Career
Acting
About two years later after her small role in Dragon Gate Inn at the age of 19 she got a leading part in King Hu's classic martial arts epos A Touch of Zen (1971). She played the daughter of general Yang,who had to flee the capital after her father was murdered by assassins of the imperial eunuch Wei. Her performance was later described by the film critic Richard Corliss ( Time ) as the screen's gravest,most ravishing woman warrior. [4] A Touch of Zen later also changed Hsu's outlook on films. Originally she just viewed them simply as a commercial product and means to earn living,but after traveling with King Hu to the Cannes Festival to represent A Touch of Zen,she started to regard films as an art form as well. [2] While A Touch of Zen (1971) was still in post production,Hsu starred in another film called Ten Days in Dragon City (1969) for which she received the Golden Horse Award for Best New Performer [5] She continued to collaborate with King Hu in a string of films. In The Fate of Lee Khan (1973),The Valiant Ones (1975) and Raining in the Mountain (1979) she was portraying martial artists again and for her role in the ghost story Legend of the Mountain (1979) she received a nomination for the Golden Horse Award for Best Actress.
She won the Golden Horse Award as best actress twice for her performances in Assassin (1976) and The Pioneers (1980). [5]
Producing
After resigning from her career as an actress in 1981 and a hiatus from the film industry in general,Hsu embarked on a career as producer. She set up her own production company Tomson Films in 1983 [2] and specialized primarily on the production of artistic films. Among others she produced Red Dust (1990),Five Girls and a Rope (1992), Farewell,My Concubine (1993), Red Firecracker,Green Firecracker (1994) and Temptress Moon (1996). For Red Dust she received the Golden Horse Award for the best film. Farewell,My Concubine and Temptress Moon were both directed by Chen Kaige and became international successes. In particular the former received several international awards among them the Palme d'Or (1993),the Golden Globe (1993) and BAFTA (1994) Awards for best foreign film.
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