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

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

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

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