Direction: Tsai Ming-liang
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Tsai Ming-liang. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
Rebels of the Neon God
1992 · Movie · 102 min. · Taiwan
Direction Tsai Ming-liang
Cast Lee Kang-sheng · Jerry Chan · Yu-Wen Wang · Jen Chang-pin
Plot Defying by his parents, Hsiao Kang drops out of the local crammer to head for the bright lights of downtown Taipei. He falls in with Ah Tze, a pretty hood...
7.1
586 votes
7.1
586 votes
The River
1997 · Movie · 115 min. · Taiwan
Direction Tsai Ming-liang
Cast Lee Kang-sheng · Miao Tian · Lu Yi-ching · Chen Shiang-chyi
Plot A mother, father, and son live together in a small apartment in Taipei but lead very separate lives. The son, Xiao Kang (Lee Kang Sheng), drifts through life without a...
7.0
386 votes
7.0
386 votes
Vive l'amour
1994 · Movie · 118 min. · Taiwan
Direction Tsai Ming-liang
Cast Yang Kuei-mei · Lee Kang-sheng · Lu Yi-ching · Lu Hsiao-Ling
Plot Yang Kuei-Mei and Chen Chao-Jung (both from the hit comedy "Eat Drink Man Woman") star as May, a chic and seductive real estate agent, and Ah-jong, a street merchant. This...
7.0
675 votes
7.0
675 votes
The Hole
1998 · Movie · 95 min. · Taiwan
Direction Tsai Ming-liang
Cast Lin Kun-Huei · Lee Kang-sheng · Lin Hui-Chin · Miao Tian
Plot Seven days to the 21st century: the rain will not let up in Taiwan, and a strange disease reaches epic proportions. Despite evacuation warnings, the tenants of a run-down public...
6.8
742 votes
6.8
742 votes
What Time Is It There?
2001 · Movie · 116 min. · Taiwan
Direction Tsai Ming-liang
Cast Lee Kang-sheng · Chen Shiang-chyi · Miao Tian · Jerry Chan
Plot From acclaimed director Tsai Ming-liang (Vive L'Amour; The River) comes the quirky story of Hsiao Kang (Lee Kang-Sheng) who sells watches in the streets of Taipei for a living. A...
6.8
770 votes
6.8
770 votes
Good Bye, Dragon Inn
2003 · Movie · 82 min. · Taiwan
Direction Tsai Ming-liang
Cast Lee Kang-sheng · Chen Shiang-chyi · Kiyonobu Mitamura · Yang Kuei-mei
Plot Set almost entirely in a crumbling movie theater on its final night, acclaimed filmmaker Tsai Ming-Liang ("What Time Is It There?") crafts an elegant and tender valentine to the pleasures...
6.7
903 votes
6.7
903 votes
I Don't Want to Sleep Alone
2006 · Movie · 115 min. · Taiwan
Direction Tsai Ming-liang
Cast Lee Kang-sheng · Chen Shiang-chyi · Norman Atun · Kok-Fai Chiew
6.7
323 votes
6.7
323 votes
Days
2020 · Movie · 127 min. · Taiwan
Direction Tsai Ming-liang
Cast Anong Houngheuangsy · Lee Kang-sheng
Plot Kang lives alone in a big house. Non in a small apartment in town. They meet, and then part, their days flowing on as before. Tsai Ming-Liang’s quietly observational film...
6.7
340 votes
6.7
340 votes
Journey to the West
2014 · Movie · 56 min. · Taiwan
Direction Tsai Ming-liang
Cast Lee Kang-sheng · Denis Lavant
Plot The face of an exhausted man breathing deeply, his face agitated and, nearby, the sea. A Buddhist monk walks barefoot and incredibly slowly through Marseille – so slowly, that his...
6.4
179 votes
6.4
179 votes
Walker
2012 · Movie · 27 min. · Hong Kong
Direction Tsai Ming-liang
Cast Lee Kang-sheng
6.3
231 votes
6.3
231 votes
The Skywalk Is Gone
2002 · Movie · 25 min. · Taiwan
Direction Tsai Ming-liang
Cast Chen Shiang-chyi · Lee Kang-sheng · Lu Yi-ching
Plot A girl (Shiang-chyi Chen) looks for a street vendor in Taipei. But she can't find him since the Skywalk is Gone.
6.3
159 votes
6.3
159 votes
To Each His Cinema
2007 · Movie · 111 min. · France
Direction Theodoros Angelopoulos · Olivier Assayas · Bille August · Jane Campion
Cast Cindy Beckett · Audrey Dana · Jacques Frantz · George Babluani
Plot To Each His Cinema is a 2007 film, produced and conceived by Gilles Jacob, celebrating the Cannes Film Festival's 60th anniversary. The film is comprised of a collection of 35...
6.2
1K votes
6.2
1K votes
No No Sleep
2015 · Movie · 34 min. · Taiwan
Direction Tsai Ming-liang
Cast Masanobu Ando · Lee Kang-sheng
6.2
80 votes
6.2
80 votes
Your Face
2018 · Documentary · 76 min. · Taiwan
Direction Tsai Ming-liang
Cast Lee Kang-sheng · Tsai Ming-liang
Plot Radically rethinking the tired talking-heads template, Tsai Ming-liang's latest digital experiment turns the human face into a subject of dramatic intrigue. Comprised of a series of portrait shots of mostly...
6.1
52 votes
6.1
52 votes
Stray Dogs
2013 · Movie · 138 min. · Taiwan
Direction Tsai Ming-liang
Cast Lee Kang-sheng · Lu Yi-ching · Lee Yi-Cheng · Wu Jin-Kai
Plot A father and his two children wander the margins of modern day Taipei, from the woods and rivers of the outskirts to the rain streaked streets of the city. By...
6.0
418 votes
6.0
418 votes
Madame Butterfly
2009 · Movie · 35 min. · Taiwan
Direction Tsai Ming-liang
Cast Pearlly Chua
Plot Tsaï Ming-Liang retains very little of the opera by Puccini: just the setting, which isn’t so exotic for him, even if we do go from Japan to Singapore, and the...
5.7
24 votes
5.7
24 votes
Visage (Face)
2009 · Movie · 136 min. · France
Direction Tsai Ming-liang
Cast Lee Kang-sheng · Laetitia Casta · Fanny Ardant · Jean-Pierre Léaud
Plot A Taiwanese filmmaker makes a film based on the myth of Salomé at the Louvre. Even though he speaks neither French nor English, he insists on giving the part of...
5.6
192 votes
5.6
192 votes
The Wayward Cloud
2005 · Movie · 112 min. · Taiwan
Direction Tsai Ming-liang
Cast Lee Kang-sheng · Chen Shiang-chyi · Sumomo Yozakura · Yang Kuei-mei
Plot Taipei is besieged by a drought so extreme, citizens have taken to drinking watermelon juice and bathing in rooftop reservoirs. In its scarcity, the value of water is absurdly apportioned:...
5.4
5K votes
5.4
5K votes
A Conversation with God
2001 · Documentary · 30 min. · Taiwan
Direction Tsai Ming-liang
Cast Tsai Ming-liang
Plot The original subject intended for this film was a spiritual medium who was unbelievably accurate. Tsai Ming-liang jumped on his 50cc motorbike, equipped with a DV camera ready to shoot...
5.0
37 votes
5.0
37 votes
Xiao Kang (S)
2015 · Movie · 2 min. · Taiwan
Direction Tsai Ming-liang
Cast Lee Kang-sheng
Plot This is the festival trailer for Viennale - Vienna International Film Festival 2015. The trailer will be shown in over 100 cinemas in Austria and Germany and during the festival...
4.0
34 votes
4.0
34 votes