Hsiao Hou Tao

Acting

Hsiao Hou Tao

Born 1947-12-29

Acting credits

The Spring Outside the Fence poster
6.0

The rebellious and free-spirited Li Lin and the introverted Wu Ai-hua are best friends who grow up together in the military dependents' village. However, they both fall in love with pilot He Kang, their mutual childhood friend. After He Kang is killed in a crash, the village only reminds the heartbroken girls of the tragedy. They escape to Taipei and work as hostess and accountant, earning a living from American soldiers on leave from Vietnam. The girls reunite with Michael, an American flight instructor, at the club. Michael ardently pursues Li Lin, but struggling to forget He Kang, Li Lin rejects Michael' s proposal. Having taken different paths, the two girls eventually return to their childhood village, reminiscing about the bonds of the past.

The Spring Outside the Fence

1985

Gangland Odyssey poster
8.0

A Chinese drama

Gangland Odyssey

1988

A Flower in the Rainy Night poster
5.6

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.

A Flower in the Rainy Night

1983

That Day, on the Beach poster
7.6

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.

That Day, on the Beach

1983

Taoism Drunkard poster
6.3

A Taoist priest is ordered to find a Cherry Boy to appease his temple's ancestors. The boy in question is a young man who lives with his grandmother, trying to protect a sacred writ from a bright red, snarling bad guy. And let's just say insanity follows!

Taoism Drunkard

1984

Requital poster
5.6

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.

Requital

1992

Papa, Can You Hear Me Sing? poster
7.0

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.

Papa, Can You Hear Me Sing?

1983

The Mystery of Chess Boxing poster
6.2

Evil Chun Shan uses chess boxing and a five-element ninja style to terrorize the martial arts world until he is challenged in a series of battles, then destroyed.

The Mystery of Chess Boxing

1979

Queen Bee's Revenge poster
NR

A woman seeks revenge against the people responsible for her sister's death.

Queen Bee's Revenge

1981

The Vampire Dominator poster
5.0

Taiwanese horror film.

The Vampire Dominator

1984

Step Back to Glory poster
5.8

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.

Step Back to Glory

2013

Let the Sunshine in poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Let the Sunshine in

2014

18 poster
4.8

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.

18

1993

Sacrifice to Desolate Spirits poster
5.0

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.

Sacrifice to Desolate Spirits

1980

Myth of a City poster
NR

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.

Myth of a City

1985

No artwork available
NR

The 'scalper' is a cinema ticket-tout skirting the law and police harassment to make a living for herself and her three children in downtown Taipei.

The Scalper

1986

The Time You Need a Friend poster
9.0

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.

The Time You Need a Friend

1984

Winter Break poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Winter Break

1989

情竇初開 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

情竇初開

1978

The Three Famous Constables poster
6.0

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 Three Famous Constables

1983

Dad's Suit poster
8.0

An elderly Taiwanese farmer faces new struggles when his children attempt to put him into aged care.

Dad's Suit

2019

Iron Neck Li poster
7.0

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.

Iron Neck Li

1978

18 Weapons of Kung Fu poster
4.5

Li Tai must endure terrible hardship under his sadistic Kung-fu master in order to perfect his fighting technique. The ambitious young man finally has a chance to prove himself when his old master meets his match and Li has to use the eighteen secrets of kung fu to fight the challenger.

18 Weapons of Kung Fu

1980

The Flute Player of Wrath poster
NR

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.

The Flute Player of Wrath

1982