Hou Hsiao-hsien

Director

Hou Hsiao-hsien has a .385 batting average: 5 of 13 films rated 80/100 or higher.

Batting average
.385
Hits
5 of 13 feature films rated 80/100 or higher
Percentile
top 12% of 941 directors, confidence-adjusted (how it works)
Career
1983–2015

Films, ranked by rating

  1. Dust in the Wind (1986) — 86/100 · hit
  2. A City of Sadness (1989) — 86/100 · hit
  3. A Summer at Grandpa's (1984) — 85/100 · hit
  4. The Time to Live and the Time to Die (1985) — 84/100 · hit
  5. The Puppetmaster (1993) — 81/100 · hit
  6. To Each His Own Cinema (2007) — 79/100
  7. Flowers of Shanghai (1998) — 76/100
  8. Three Times (2005) — 75/100
  9. Café Lumière (2004) — 75/100
  10. Millennium Mambo (2001) — 73/100
  11. The Boys from Fengkuei (1983) — 73/100
  12. Flight of the Red Balloon (2008) — 72/100
  13. The Assassin (2015) — 71/100

Films that qualify under the rating methodology, not a complete filmography.

Best and worst

Highest rated

  1. Dust in the Wind (1986) — 86/100 · hit
  2. A City of Sadness (1989) — 86/100 · hit
  3. A Summer at Grandpa's (1984) — 85/100 · hit

Lowest rated

  1. The Assassin (2015) — 71/100
  2. Flight of the Red Balloon (2008) — 72/100
  3. The Boys from Fengkuei (1983) — 73/100

How these numbers work: Methodology