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The Boys from Fengkuei

THE BOYS FROM FENGKUEI was Hou Hsiao-hsien’s fourth film as director, but in many ways it can be viewed as his first mature work—the one in which he moved away from commercial comedies toward a more rigorous, naturalistic mode of storytelling.

Hou Hsiao-hsien Taiwan, 1983
DCP

Cute Girl

One of the great poets of modern cinema, Hou Hsiao-hsien, made his feature debut with this sweet and lighthearted romantic comedy. Pop star Kenny Bee plays the poor city boy who, while working as an engineer in a small country town, falls in love with the daughter (singer Fong Fei-fei) of a wealthy family who is there visiting her aunt.

Hou Hsiao-hsien Taiwan, 1980
DCP

Flowers of Shanghai

An intoxicating, time-bending experience bathed in the golden glow of oil lamps and wreathed in an opium haze, Hou Hsiao-hsien’s gorgeous period reverie traces the romantic intrigue, jealousies, and tensions swirling around a late 19th century Shanghai brothel, where the courtesans live confined to a gilded cage, ensconced in opulent splendor yet forced to work to buy back their freedom.

Hou Hsiao-hsien Taiwan, 1998
DCP, Blu-ray

The Green, Green Grass of Home

Hou Hsiao-hsien’s third feature finds him on the cusp of developing his mature style, sharpening his powers of human observation in a charming look at rural-urban culture clash.Kenny Bee plays a schoolteacher from Taipei who arrives in a small town to take a new job as instructor to a class of mischievous students.

Hou Hsiao-hsien Taiwan, 1982
DCP