On the evening of December 5th, Taiwanese media reported that actor Hou Jie, who was a senior Taiwanese student, passed away at the age of 73.
2 According to an insider, Hou Jie was able to eat normally at noon on the 5th, and someone from the nursing center communicated with him for a while around 1:00 pm. It was not until about 3 o'clock in the afternoon, when the maintenance staff went to wake Hou Jie, that he had stopped beating.
When Hou Jie was young, he was a first-line student of Taiwanese Hokkien dramas. He has great influence in Taiwan's entertainment industry. His representative works include "Happy to Be the Head", "Grandma on the Street", etc., but his most familiar role He played the father of Ethan Ruan in the movie "Monga".
Hou Jie had a miserable life in his later years. He suffered from moderate dementia and was sent to the hospital for treatment due to a stroke. Hou Jie's condition began to deteriorate after the Lunar New Year in 2015. In 2016, he roamed the streets naked. After being found by residents, he called the police for help.
Hou Jie has a younger brother and a daughter before he divorced his wife. However, according to the director of the nursing center, Hou Jie and his daughter did not have a very good relationship, and they have not been in contact with him for more than ten years.
Director Lin Fudi, who has been friends with Hou Jie for many years, said that Hou Jie had visited 3 or 4 times in the past few years in the nursing home. The last time was in 2018, when he was already in poor physical condition. Hou Jie was basically unable to speak, and he did not know who was coming.
Lin Fudi recalled that because he knew Hou Jie liked sweets, he would take him to drink coffee every time he came to visit Hou Jie, which has now become a memory.
Hou Jie's younger brother would come to visit Hou Jie in his early years, but as time passed, his younger brother rarely showed up.
The cost of Hou Jie's stay in the recuperation center has been borne by the Social Affairs Bureau and Tzu Chi. The Tzu Chi Committee will also visit Hou Jie on a regular basis, but until his death, he had no relatives by his side.
The staff of the sanatorium expressed regret for Hou Jie's passing away. Subsequent work will be assisted by the Guitian Culture and Art Foundation.
