hou has produced 14 films - meaning serving as a producer or executive producer on a project - and the only film he both produced and directed is "the assassin" (2015). among the notable films that he has served as an executive producer on include chi po-lin's "" (2013) - winner of the best documentary award at the 2013 golden horse film festival and awards, wu nien-jen's "a borrowed life" ("duo sang") (1994) (winner of the grand prize at the torino film festival in italy, the best actor and the international critics award at the thessaloniki film festival in greece and one of martin scorsese's top/favorite/best films of the 1990s decade) and zhang yimou's best foreign language film oscar-nominated "raise the red lantern" (1991).