{"id":19719,"date":"2023-10-25T19:36:49","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T23:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=19719"},"modified":"2023-12-12T06:34:41","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T11:34:41","slug":"taiwanese-director-hou-hsiao-hsien-retiring-due-to-dementia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=19719","title":{"rendered":"Taiwanese Director Hou Hsiao-hsien Retiring Due to Dementia"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Hou Hsiao-hsien, the acclaimed Taiwanese film auteur, is withdrawing from future work due to Alzheimers-related dementia. He will leave unfinished his <em><strong>Shulan River<\/strong><\/em> film, which has been in development in recent years. The director\u2019s retirement was revealed earlier this week by film scholar Tony Rayns, who revealed the news at a London screening of Hou\u2019s 1985 film <em><strong>A Time to Live and a Time to Die<\/strong><\/em>.<br \/><br \/>A statement issued later by Hou\u2019s family noted that, before his diagnosis, \u201che often told us that he found that his love for movies became more and more pure\u2026 He has now fully returned to family life and is resting peacefully.\u201d <br \/><br \/>The statement went on to acknowledge that Hou\u2019s works \u201chave received a lot of recognition at home and abroad in the past, and he has also left many classic works. Not only will he not be forgotten in the torrents of time, his attitude and spirit towards movies will also be preserved by his comrades and fans.<br><div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> online pharmacy <a href=\"https:\/\/ponderapharma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/png\/cymbalta.html\">cymbalta over the counter<\/a> with best prices today in the USA <\/div>\n<br> Thank you all again.\u201d<br \/><br \/>Hou\u2019s most recent film, <em><strong>The Assassin<\/strong><\/em>, was released in 2015. In a career spanning four decades, the 76-year-old filmmaker directed acclaimed works such as <em><strong>A City of Sadness, The Puppetmaster, Flowers of Shanghai, Millennium Mambo<\/strong><\/em>, and<em><strong> Flight of the Red Balloon.<br \/><\/strong><\/em><br \/>Born in mainland China, Hou and his family moved to Taiwan after the establishment of Maoist rule in Beijing. As a young filmmaker, he became part of Taiwan\u2019s so-called New Wave movement that, in the 1980s, propelled the island into cinematic prominence.<br><div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> online pharmacy <a href=\"https:\/\/ponderapharma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/png\/clomid.html\">clomid over the counter<\/a> with best prices today in the USA <\/div>\n<br> Hou\u2019s <em><strong>A City of Sadness<\/strong><\/em>, about tensions between native Taiwanese and mainland exiles, won the Golden Lion award at the Venice Film Festival in 1989. His final film, <em><strong>The Assassin<\/strong><\/em>, won him the Best Director prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 2015. Hou also appeared as an actor in several movies, including <em><strong>Taipei Story<\/strong><\/em>, a 1985 film by his fellow Taiwanese director Edward Yang.<br \/><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/author\/edward-moran\/\">Check out more of Edward\u2019s articles.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hou Hsiao-hsien, the acclaimed Taiwanese film auteur, is withdrawing from future work due to Alzheimers-related dementia. He will leave unfinished his Shulan River film, which has been in development in recent years. 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