The way Hou Hsiao-Hsien did his movie just opened my mind completely C* I have never seen a director be so open and generous with his actresses, I think it changed something in me," she said.
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TAIPEI, July 5 Kyodo Renowned Taiwan film director Hou Hsiao-hsien, who was picked Monday for the grand prize of the Asian Cultural Prizes of Fukuoka City, will stick to making his trademark films -- Taiwan-oriented and out of the mainstream -- despite his fellow islanders' apparent preference for Hollywood's flashy offerings.
When shall we be allowed to see, outside the festival circuit and a very few of the more adventurous repertory theatres, the works of Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Edward Yang and Tsai Ming-Liung?
It's also become one of the most ambitious repertory houses in town, with a completist emphasis on presenting everything that's available from such filmmakers as Taiwan's Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Japan's Yasujiro Ozu.
