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Hsu Hsiao-Ming

Hsu Hsiao-Ming

Directing

Biography

Hsu Hsiao-Ming (Chinese: 徐小明) is a Taiwanese director. He studied production, screenwriting and directing at Shih Hsin School of Journalism. He was a second assistant director to Lee Hsing and worked with Hou Hsiao-hsien. His first feature film, Dust of Angels, produced by Hou Hsiao-hsien, was presented at Cannes Directors' Fortnight.

Known For

I Accuse
N/A

Detectives Chung and Li suspect their superior, Siu To, of colluding with triads. Li discovers that his girlfriend was assaulted by a john associated with Siu To and seeks revenge. Later, when Siu To is implicated in a rape case, their subordinate, Ma, obtains evidence but is murdered, and witnesses are intimidated to leave the city. Chung is committed to making a big prosecution in the name of justice.

I Accuse

1981
Citizens of Wan Qu
N/A

Set in the major cities of Guangdong and Hong Kong area, the drama tells the inspirational story of a group of young people rooting developing together with the city and realizing self-growth.

Citizens of Wan Qu

2020
Blue Gate Crossing
7.2

Yueh-chen has an obsession with her classmate Shihao, but is too shy to confess to him directly. She sends in her best friend, Kerou, to act as a go-between, and Shihao ends up falling for Kerou, who is not sure what to think of him.

Blue Gate Crossing

2002
跑马场
N/A

No description available.

跑马场

2012
Dust of Angels
7.7

A-Guo and A-Dou are two teenagers living in an industrial town in Taiwan, who fight, loaf, and cause trouble all day and hang out with Jie, a young gangster. When Jie's gangland patron is gunned down, the trio set out to revenge the killing. As a result, the two teens are forced into hiding.

Dust of Angels

1992
Beijing Bicycle
6.8

A seventeen-year-old country boy working in Beijing as a courier has his bicycle stolen, and finds it with a schoolboy his age.

Beijing Bicycle

2001
Love of May
6.3

Ah Lei is the younger brother of Stone, a guitarist of Mayday. He is also the administrator of Mayday's fansite, in charge of replying to fan letters and emails. One day, he befriended a girl named Zhao Xuan through a chatroom. He told her that he's actually Ashin, the lead vocal of Mayday. She started writing letters to him, believing that he was Ashin. Finally, Xuan's peking opera group from school gets to leave Harbin and travel to Taiwan to perform. The two promised to meet in a library, but Ah Lei didn't have the courage to meet up with her. He decides to follow her around, but did not expect that she followed him back, and that she saw through his lies all along.

Love of May

2004
Qian Tang River
N/A

One river, three generations, countless failures. In the late 1950s, a group of people living along the Qiantang River fought against fearsome tides for their respective beliefs.

Qian Tang River

2025
Sex Appeal
6.4

Huihua, a music school freshman, is raped by Professor Lee. She files a suit against him with the help of another professor, who involves his attorney friend, Fang Anyu. As the film focuses on the secondary abuse inflicted on Huihua, it narrows in on the characters’ inner lives. Why does Fang Anyu defend Huihua while his marriage crumbles? Why does attorney Lin so actively defend her husband? Above all, Huihua’s complex psyche is evident in the words, "I may have loved Professor Lee," changes the film into something beyond a simple courtroom drama.

Sex Appeal

2014
Heartbreak Island
6.5

In Taiwan, a young woman, Lin-Lang, is released from prison after serving ten years for terrorist activity. She had turned to bomb making in grief after her mentor and lover, An Rong, who was also her university professor, was arrested for political activity and, she presumed, executed. In prison, she learns Rong is alive, and she maintains her spirits and sanity for the years in her cell by holding imaginary conversations with him. When she is released, she discovers he is married, has a child, and lives conventionally. She finds him; he's not happy to see her. How she reacts to losing the center of her life becomes the subject of the film.

Heartbreak Island

1995
Teenage Fugitive
6.8

Three siblings idle their time while their parents are away. Youngest son, Hsiao-hung, finds a young fugitive taking refuge in their empty home, and hides him. Later, his mother finds the murderer sleeping in a cupboard – and a night of horror takes hold.

Teenage Fugitive

1984
The Foolish Bird
7.0

Lynn lives with her grandparents in Meicheng, a small Hunanese city unsettled by an ongoing rape-murder investigation. With little structure to regulate her life outside of school, where she is bullied, Lynn begins smuggling and reselling confiscated mobile phones with her friend, which leads to encounters with the city’s seedier inhabitants.

The Foolish Bird

2017
Egg and Stone
6.2

14-year-old Honggui is forced to live with her uncle and aunt in the countryside. She is not wanted by them, nor was she wanted by her parents, who apparently intended to farm her out to family for two years so they could work in the city. Years pass. When she tries to make contact, her real mother is too busy to take her call.

Egg and Stone

2012
No image
8.0

Free market capitalism has not only effected the flow of capital but also the global migration of labor. Laborers cross national borders to “developed” or “developing” countries and take on low-paying job in the service sector. The growing number of international laborers and new immigrants, usually of various nations and ethnicity, has now begun to have certain impact on the host society. For example, in Taiwan, the lure if high income might subject them to the employer’s exploitations. And policy makers and employers rarely take into account their sense of displacement.

Homesick Eyes

1997
Closer to Me
N/A

A group of city dwellers, bearing the weight of doubt, leave for the countryside to practise ecological farming. But the beautiful vision they carry collides, again and again, with the reality they encounter. On the long, obstacle-strewn road of this experiment, the distances between the people in the community begin to grow.

Closer to Me

2024