Ho Ping (Chinese: 何平; pinyin: Hé PÃng; born 1958) is a Taiwanese
film director.Born in Hsinchu, Taiwan, he studied chemical engineering
at Tunghai University before moving to the United States to earn an
MFA from Syracuse University. Upon graduation, Ho returned to Taiwan
in 1987, and released his directorial debut The Digger (Yin jian xiang
ma) (1988). The next year, he won the Special Jury Prize at the 25th
Golden Horse Awards with The Suona Player (Chui gu chui, also known as
For whom the Suona Blows). Both The Digger and The Suona Player were
film adaptions of short stories written by Wang Ben-hu.According to
director Daw-Ming Lee, his films share a "bitter tone of absurdity,"
and Ho is influenced by Jean-Pierre Melville, Krzysztof Kieślowski,
Shūji Terayama, and Luis Buñuel.Ho has won a number of awards
throughout his career, including the International Federation of Film
Critics Award, the Don Quixote Prize of the International Federation
of Film Societies, and the Special Jury Prize at the Golden Horse
Awards twice. He has also directed television shows and commercials,
largely between 2002 and 2007, and between filming Sweet Revenge
(2007) and Battle Up (2015), Ho taught full-time at National Taiwan
University of Arts.
film director.Born in Hsinchu, Taiwan, he studied chemical engineering
at Tunghai University before moving to the United States to earn an
MFA from Syracuse University. Upon graduation, Ho returned to Taiwan
in 1987, and released his directorial debut The Digger (Yin jian xiang
ma) (1988). The next year, he won the Special Jury Prize at the 25th
Golden Horse Awards with The Suona Player (Chui gu chui, also known as
For whom the Suona Blows). Both The Digger and The Suona Player were
film adaptions of short stories written by Wang Ben-hu.According to
director Daw-Ming Lee, his films share a "bitter tone of absurdity,"
and Ho is influenced by Jean-Pierre Melville, Krzysztof Kieślowski,
Shūji Terayama, and Luis Buñuel.Ho has won a number of awards
throughout his career, including the International Federation of Film
Critics Award, the Don Quixote Prize of the International Federation
of Film Societies, and the Special Jury Prize at the Golden Horse
Awards twice. He has also directed television shows and commercials,
largely between 2002 and 2007, and between filming Sweet Revenge
(2007) and Battle Up (2015), Ho taught full-time at National Taiwan
University of Arts.
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