Screenplay: Tsai Ming-liang

Direction Tsai Ming-liang

Cast Lee Kang-sheng · Jerry Chan · Yu-Wen Wang · Jen Chang-pin

Synopsis 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 and their relationships is a confused mixture of hero-worship and...

Direction Tsai Ming-liang

Cast Lee Kang-sheng · Miao Tian · Lu Yi-ching · Chen Shiang-chyi

Synopsis 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 job; the mother is an elevator operator having an affair...

Direction Tsai Ming-liang

Cast Yang Kuei-mei · Lee Kang-sheng · Lu Yi-ching · Lu Hsiao-Ling

Synopsis 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 mesmerizing film revolves around the two young people and their...

Direction Tsai Ming-liang

Cast Lin Kun-Huei · Lee Kang-sheng · Lin Hui-Chin · Miao Tian

Synopsis 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 housing building stay put. A plumber has been sent to...

Direction Tsai Ming-liang

Cast Lee Kang-sheng · Chen Shiang-chyi · Miao Tian · Jerry Chan

Synopsis 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 few days after his father's death, he meets Shiang-Chyi, a...

Direction Tsai Ming-liang

Cast Lee Kang-sheng · Chen Shiang-chyi · Kiyonobu Mitamura · Yang Kuei-mei

Synopsis 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 of moviegoing and the death of a cinematic age. Run...

Direction Tsai Ming-liang

Cast Lee Kang-sheng · Chen Shiang-chyi · Norman Atun · Kok-Fai Chiew

Direction Tsai Ming-liang

Cast Anong Houngheuangsy · Lee Kang-sheng

Synopsis 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 is about these two men embracing.

Direction Tsai Ming-liang

Cast Lee Kang-sheng · Denis Lavant

Synopsis 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 progress is barely perceptible and he becomes a calming influence...

Direction Tsai Ming-liang

Cast Lee Kang-sheng

Direction Tsai Ming-liang

Cast Chen Shiang-chyi · Lee Kang-sheng · Lu Yi-ching

Synopsis A girl (Shiang-chyi Chen) looks for a street vendor in Taipei. But she can't find him since the Skywalk is Gone.

Direction Theodoros Angelopoulos · Olivier Assayas · Bille August · Jane Campion

Cast Cindy Beckett · Audrey Dana · Jacques Frantz · George Babluani

Synopsis 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 three-minute short films by some of the world's leading directors,...

Direction Tsai Ming-liang

Cast Masanobu Ando · Lee Kang-sheng

Direction Tsai Ming-liang

Cast Lee Kang-sheng · Tsai Ming-liang

Synopsis 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 anonymous individuals.

Direction Tsai Ming-liang

Cast Lee Kang-sheng · Lu Yi-ching · Lee Yi-Cheng · Wu Jin-Kai

Synopsis 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 day the father scrapes out a meager income as a...

Direction Tsai Ming-liang

Cast Lee Kang-sheng · Laetitia Casta · Fanny Ardant · Jean-Pierre Léaud

Synopsis 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 King Herod to the French actor Jean-Pierre Léaud. To give...

Direction Tsai Ming-liang

Cast Lee Kang-sheng · Chen Shiang-chyi · Sumomo Yozakura · Yang Kuei-mei

Synopsis 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: lovers pledge affection with gifts of melons, and the pornography...

Direction Tsai Ming-liang

Cast Tsai Ming-liang

Synopsis 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 her, to see whether the god would speak to his...

Direction Tsai Ming-liang

Cast Lee Kang-sheng

Synopsis In 2012, Taiwanese architects Michael Lin and Liao Wei-li invited Tsai Ming-liang to create moving images for their exhibition at the Venice Architecture Biennale. Using the space of his previous exhibition in Taiwan, Tsai Ming-liang made two short films, Sleepwalking...

Direction Tsai Ming-liang

Synopsis In 2019, the night in Hong Kong was still in fascinating beauty and the landscape of everyday life was gradually changing. Travelling the streets, Tsai Ming-liang documented the city's rhythm and ambience, along with an overpass.