as his sixth feature film, "a time to live, a time to die" (1985) (also known as "the time to live and the time to die", chinese: 童年往事; pinyin: tóngnián wǎngshì, lit. "incidents from a childhood past") was perhaps hou's first internationally successful film, winning a grand total of 8 awards from film festivals all over the world: a special jury award at the 1985 asia-pacific film festival, a fipresci prize at the forum of new cinema at the 1986 berlin international film festival (or berlinale), a best original screenplay (hou hsiao-hsien and chu t’ien-wen), a best supporting actress (ru-yun tang) at the 1985 golden horse film festival (where it was also nominated for best feature film, best director, best original film score (chu-chu wu) and best sound recording (chiang-sheng hsin) awards), a special jury award at the 1986 hawaii international film festival, a rotterdam award for best non-american/non-european film at the 1987 rotterdam international film festival, a kinema junpo award at the 1990 kinema junpo awards (also for "dust in the wind), and a special jury prize at the 1986 torino international festival of young cinema.