Those "beautiful movies" belonging to Hou Xiaoxian

With the successful conclusion of the 52nd Golden Horse Awards, the victorious "Assassin Nie Yinniang" pushed Hou Xiaoxian to the public. This usually unsmiling Taiwanese film master has revolutionized martial arts movies to another level, but maybe you What I don't know is that those long shots and fixed shots have always been the hallmarks of Hou Xiaoxian's movies. Next, Mr. Orange will use these ten works to recommend these "beautiful movies" of Master Hou to you.

Childhood Pasts

Director: Hou Xiaoxian

Screenplay: Hou Xiaoxian/ Zhu Tianwen

Starring: Mei Fang/ Tang Ruyun/ Tian Feng/ You Anshun/ Xin Shufen

Genre: Plot/ Biography

"The Childhood Past" is an excellent half of Hou Xiaoxian The film works describe the joys and sorrows of a family, as well as the calm and open-minded attitude when facing birth, aging, sickness and death, revealing the typical honest and honest nature of the Chinese, as well as their care and views on the growth of life, and conveying the special memories of an era. The

film has won many international awards, and it also shows the formation of its style. "My Childhood" is not only Hou Xiaoxian's memory of Taiwan's past, but also an ideal for Taiwan as a whole by him and the screenwriter Zhu Tianwen.

City of Tragedy

​​Director: Hou Xiaoxian

Screenplay: Wu Nianzhen/ Zhu Tianwen

Starring: Chen Songyong/ Liang Chaowei/ Gao Jie/ Xin Shufen/ Chen Shufang Experience and life. Hou Hsiao-hsien's filming of "City of Sadness" based on Taiwan's modern history broke the political taboo of Taiwanese films at that time. Tony Leung played the silent protagonist Wen Qing in the film, which was well received. Moreover, the film also won the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival, and it is the first Taiwanese film to win the award.

"City of Tragedy" is an epic based on small people. It takes the post-recovery Taiwan as a reference and vividly presents the impatient sadness of small people under the special background of the times. It is simple and profound.

Lian Lian Feng Dust

Starring: Li Tianlu/ Xin Shufen/ Wang Jingwen/ Ke Yulun

Genre: Drama/ Love

The film is based on Wu Nianzhen’s first love experience, and tells the story of A Yuan and A Yun, who were childhood sweethearts, and they drift away because of A Yuan’s enlistment. , The story of Ayun finally getting married with others. The whole movie of

is like the director slowly reading a letter to the audience. Although there are not many lines in the whole film, and occasionally I feel jumpy, but it is not dull and tearful at all. The film also conveys an infinitely sad theme: at the end of the childhood sweetheart, it is nothing but a breeze.

Haihua

​​Director: Hou Xiaoxian

Screenplay: Zhu Tianwen/ Han Bangqing/ Zhang Ailing

Starring: Tony Leung/ Haneda Michiko/ Liu Jialing/ Li Jiaxin/ Gao Jie/ Pan Dihua/ Yineng

The story of the high-end brothel of "Sanshu Yu". In this quiet alternative epic, the director Hou Xiaoxian uses his rigorous and steady long shots to show the panoramic description of Shanghai prostitutes in the late Qing Dynasty, but the whole is much more gorgeous.

"Flowers on the Sea" is adapted from the Wu Chinese novel "Biography of Flowers on the Sea" which Zhang Ailing once "translated" it into Mandarin. When you sang the drama of the woman I appeared on stage, everyone’s desires and calculations were steaming, and in the end, different pay and endings were implied, which made people infinitely embarrassed.

The best time

Director: Hou Xiaoxian

Screenplay: Zhu Tianwen/ Hou Xiaoxian

Starring: Shu Qi/ Zhang Zhen/ Mei Fang/ Liao Shuzhen/ Di Mei/ Chen Shishan

Genre: Plot/ Own love career to sum up. The ways in which the male (Zhang Zhen) and the female (Shu Qi) protagonists express their emotions in the three stories and their backgrounds can be found in Hou Xiaoxian's films of various periods. "Dream of Love" is pure, like the other side of the unreachable dream; "Freedom Dream" is touching, but it is a more distant dream close to heaven;"Spring Dream" is cold, but reality.

And the film also makes people deeply feel that all time is disappointed and wasted, and only after betrayed and wasted, can a certain section be taken out of memory, pat the dust deposited on it, and lament that it is the most Good time.

The person coming from the wind cabinet

Director: Hou Xiaoxian

Screenplay: Zhu Tianwen

Starring: Niu Chengze/ Zhang Shi/ Tuo Zonghua/ Lin Xiuling/ Yang Liyin/ Zhang Chunfang/ Chen Bozheng

The film tells a group of boys without a job after graduation from high school,

Waiting for conscription. They were bored, watching white shows, gambling, fighting bravely, leaving the wind cabinet, and coming to Kaohsiung. They truly described the confusion and confusion they encountered while growing up. The

film portrays adolescents' outlook on life, full of sympathy and straightforward and active attitude towards life, once again reflecting Hou Dao's strong insight, and fully capturing the invisible tension and detailed performance that young people exude when dealing with interpersonal relationships. Niu Chengze, the male number one in the film, also became Hou Dao's favorite apprentice in the future.

Drama Dream Life

Director: Hou Xiaoxian

Screenplay: Wu Nianzhen/ Li Tianlu/ Zhu Tianlu

Starring: Cai Zhennan/ Huang Qianru/ Li Tianlu/ Yang Liyin/ Yang Liyin

Genre: a plot, a documentary film, the film is a master of war

zzz "Li Tianlu's life experience in the first half of his life is the main line of the narrative, and then Li Tianlu's own oral memories are intertwined with the scenes of filming and reshaping, and his personal experience presents Taiwan's history from the late Qing Dynasty to the surrender of Japan in 1945. Director

created a memoir of Li Tianlu, which has been alternated in time and space and paid more attention, through the personal memories of the parties and the reshaping scenes. It really presents the sorrow of people who have been ruthlessly suppressed by history and fully interprets "life itself is history" This true concept.

Winter Holidays

Starring: Mei Fang/ Gu Jun/ Wang Qiguang/ Yan Zhengguo/ Chen Bozheng/ Yang Liyin/ Lin Xiuling

Genre: Plot

"Winter and Winter Holidays" is the most refreshing and brightest in Hou Xiaoxian's film works The film, the film is full of pastoral simplicity, and the ignorance and unknown of the growth experience, and described all this in front of me vividly and full of vitality as a bystander.

And behind the carefree vacation of the film theme, there is a secondary line about childhood memories. While remembering, we can sigh the days spent in ignorance and the continuous growth and continuous growth in ignorance. Forgotten, and then became what we are now familiar and strange.