Hsiao Hou Tao

Birth : 1947-12-29,

Death : 2020-02-02

Movies

Dad's Suit
Chin Mao
An elderly Taiwanese farmer faces new struggles when his children attempt to put him into aged care.
Found
A beautiful female doctor who is well cared for and a gay man raised by a single mother, at the golden age of her career, encounters the impact of her father's need for a liver transplant to renew his life at the same time.
Step Back to Glory
Old Tien
A true story of the unrelenting endurance and perseverance of a group of passionate teenage girls, in a film that firmly grasps audiences and tugs at the heartstrings with an emotionally charged story of tug-of-war, “Step Back to Glory”, stands out from all of the other Cinderella-story movies in its faithful portrayal of a real-life event. The film, directed by Zhang Bo-rui, tells the story of a group of young teenage girls from the Jingmei Girls High School tug-of-war team and their arduous journey from failure to success.
Happiness tumbler
楊春和
陳兩全,一個樂觀寡言的好好先生, 做了幾年有模有樣的家庭主夫,忽然決定出馬競選里長! 原本只是一個失聯許久的朋友--小潘, 介紹他一門生意「幸福不倒翁」--雖是山寨卻比正版威而鋼還好! 小潘要兩全等著數錢數到手抽筋的好日子! 天知道兩全還來不及抽筋, 跟他一起攜手走過半輩子風風雨雨的太太--素月, 卻在這時候一定要跟他離婚, 是否素月真得喜歡上了這幾年口袋麥克麥克的鄭大力? 但兩全的一雙兒女,卻發現老爸無意間已經紅遍大街小巷, 靠著他手腳不協調的一支阿伯獨舞在網路上飆紅, 陳兩全能靠著人氣贏回素月的心嗎? 能順利當選里長嗎? 能找回他的失落嗎…?
6局下半
組頭
Su Zhengde, a middle-aged policeman who has no hope of promotion, eavesdropped on insider news of professional baseball signing and gambling in his duty. He wanted to raise money to send his daughter to study abroad, and he struggled between love and morality. Ada, a fat little brother who lives opposite Zhengde's house, plays baseball in order to become the real man in his mother's mind, but his real dream is to be a dancer. In order to realize his dream, Ada goes hungry and saves money to participate in dance competitions, hiding from her fierce and strict mother. On this day, Zhengde hesitated whether to give up morality and go all out? Ada is still waiting for her mother to understand how he wants to dance! The dreams of two generations, the middle-aged Zhengde and the young Ada, are waiting for the opportunity on the sunny autumn afternoon...
18
A multi-lingual tour guide who owns multiple passports one day drives his wife and daughter to a desolate seashore town and checks in a secluded, spacious, ruins-like hotel. From that moment on, he throws himself into gambling, tossing the dice with local residents all day. Sometimes he wins big, but sometimes he loses all. Feeling neglected and uncomfortable, his wife and daughter soon leave him and return home. He stays and wanders in this fishing village and gradually immerses himself in the surroundings—a place rife with immoral vagabonds, outlaws and weirdoes.
Requital
Liu
A young Taiwanese man after being released from prison starts his life as a gangster. He goes to Hong Kong to do some business with the Triads.
The Long Vacation
Gangland Odyssey
A Chinese drama
Myth of a City
It is a school bus driver's last day at work. On a whim, he drives off to the seashore with the school's cook, a young teacher, and a busload of children. Facing an unhappy retirement, he seeks one great moment of happiness, which he finds on the road with the children. They encounter an aboriginal family, who invite them in for a feast, and then some young motorcycle riders, with whom they camp by the sea.
The Spring Outside the Fence
Li Lin and Wu Ai-hua -- two girls growing in a same military dependent community, are of sharp contrast in personalities. The former is charming, smart, open-mined and wild. Never shall she bow to challenges. In her life, she loves only one man -- a handsome and resolute pilot of the air force by the name of Ho Kang, who grew up in the same neighborhood with her. The latter, Wu Ai-hua, is a closed-minded and depressed girl. In the course of her growth, she loves only one man -- the courageous and smart pilot of air force by the name Ho Kang. Her personalities, however, confine her love towards him in secret. Never has she expressed her love toward him. While the two girls have fostered very firm friendship. With the very same lover and with the eventual destiny, can this friendship between the two girls be lasting?
The Time You Need a Friend
John Woo's melodramatic tragicomedy The Time You Need a Friend (1985) stands at the crucial crossroads in the director's career. Woo had been churning out innocuous comedies for more than a few years, and after establishing the "heroic bloodshed" genre, he'd never look back. But this tale of two comedians - estranged former pals who bury the hatchet for one last show together - blends the pathos and male-bonding of Woo's later dramas with the silliness and pratfalls that marked his early works. At their peak, Ku Ren and Shem Bien were an unstoppable screen comedy team, the undisputed stars of the silent era. But a major falling out has kept the duo offstage for decades. Despite the urgings of family and friends, Ku and Shem refuse to reconcile. As both men approach their twilight years, one last chance for a reunion presents itself in the form of a televised charity benefit. Ku Ren and Shem Bien struggle to come to terms with years of bitterness, and bring the house down once again.
A Flower in the Rainy Night
A girl, who was sold by her stepfather at the age of 14, has had been a prostitute for 14 years. Her family, despite enjoying a comfortable life with her help, avoids her. She thus decides to have a son of her own and succeeds by sheer determination. She is now hopeful that her son will have a life better than hers.
That Day, on the Beach
Fisherman
Two friends who haven't seen each other for thirteen years reunite. One is a successful concert pianist just back from a European tour and the other has just started a new business.
Papa, Can You Hear Me Sing?
Ah Kun
A poor army veteran in Taiwan adopts a daughter. She grows up and leaves him to enter show business. When she becomes famous she shuns her father and friends.
The Three Famous Constables
Coffin making killer
The plot it involves getting rid of the Devil Clan, a gang of very efficient robbers who have never been caught. The depredations must have gotten more blatant because two constables, played by Pearl Cheung Ling and Tin Hok are both tasked with eliminating them. Pearl Cheung recruits Lam Gwong-Wing who is either the third constable of the title or an informant. Lam is a bit of a goof—he would rather lounge in luxury with beautiful young women peeling grapes for him than go after the Devil Clan—which seems to make a lot of sense—but he reluctantly goes along with her after she threatens him. Lam is literally grabbed away from her by the constable played by Tin Hok for his war for his parallel operation. There is a third figure, neither a constable nor a Devil Clanner. He is Wolf Warrior who simply shows up and kills people—lots of people.
The Flute Player of Wrath
Taiwanese Kung Fu actor Yip Fei, (Snuff Bottle Connection) stars in this superb swordplay film from Taiwan. A swordsman known for his flute playing style: dispatches his foes in the bloodiest of ways.
Steamrolling
Iron Neck Li
Hsiao Ping
Iron Neck Li (Chi Kuan Chun) signs on as a personal bodyguard for a Chinese prince. The potentate plans to visit the lawless island of Formosa, where criminals lie in wait -- highwaymen who would love to take a crack at the rich prince. But garden-variety brigands are the least of Li's worries when he encounters a powerful clan. Li must now put everything on the line to save the young prince.
Sacrifice to Desolate Spirits
Upon their invasion of Taiwan in 1874, the Japanese team up with a sinister tong to hold a martial arts tournament in a plot to root out and assassinate the region's top resistance fighters, thereby breaking the spirit of Chinese patriotism. Two local kung-fu masters prove more than a match for the invaders.
The Mystery of Chess Boxing
Lee Yi Min stars as an eager young kung fu student who seeks to improve his fighting skills with an aim to avenge his fathers murder at the hands of the Ghost Face Killer an overwhelming force of destruction and master of the death dealing Five Element Fist. Lee eagerness to study attracts the attention of the master of Chess Boxing Jack Long who is the Ghost Face Killers arch enemy. Together master and student devise a wicked cross fertilization of the Chess Boxing and Five Element Fist styles and set out to put an end to the Ghost Faces deadly reign.
A Pirate of Love
A Pirate of Love is a taiwanese Romance starring Charlie Chin and Sylvia Chang
阿草下山
寒武紀
國志叔
相依為命的父親死了, 吳曉瑛依著父親的遺言, 心不甘情不願地去投靠母親白瑜珍, 但是二十年的親情隔閡, 讓母女關係充滿著對立和不信任。 白瑜珍繼承了父親遺留下的園藝公司, 物質生活優渥,情感自主, 白瑜珍經營的個人形象, 是吳曉瑛一個貧窮環境女孩所無法理解的成人世界。 但是吳曉瑛並不想找回親情, 她不懂自己心裡幽微的希望, 她只是疑惑,明明能愛人、能照顧人的白瑜珍, 為什麼吝嗇地不愛父親,不愛自己?