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Taiwanese filmmaker Hou Hsiao Hsien born in Meixan (Canton), spent a great deal of his time as a teenager in the cinema, before going on to study film at the Taiwan National Arts University. After starting out as an assistant director, he made his first feature film Cute Girls in 1980. In 1984, with The Boys from Fengkuei, he established himself as the leader of the Taiwan New Wave. In competition at Locarno as early as 1985 with one of his first masterpieces, A Summer at Grandpa’s, Hou Hsiao H…