Directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien • 1980 • Taiwan
Starring Kenny Bee, Anthony Chan Yau, Chang Ping-Yu
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. Can their rural romance survive when they head back to the big city? Though CUTE GIRL finds Hou working in a more commercial mode than his later, more personal films, it nevertheless shows the seeds of his emerging style.
Up Next in Early Films by Hou Hsiao-hsien
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The Green, Green Grass of Home
Directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien • 1982 • Taiwan
Starring Kenny Bee, Meifeng Chen, Jing-kuo YenHou 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 schoolteac...
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The Boys from Fengkuei
Directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien • 1983 • Taiwan
Starring Doze Niu Cheng-Tse, Zhang Shi, Lin Hsiu-LingTHE 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...
