Rain Dogs

When 19-year old Tung – a young Malaysian living with his aging mother in a small town – sets out to reconnect with his elder brother in the urban chaos of Kuala Lumpur, little does he realize that a journey of self-discovery into the conflicted realms of love, loyalty and loss lies directly up ahead. Guileless and overconfident, Tung soon finds himself drawn into a world where deceit, treachery, violence, and irrevocable loss are the only certainties – and where the only lesson to be to be gleaned is just how difficult adulthood can make it for any of us to ever go home again. Shot on an intoxicating variety of locations throughout Malaysia – from the neon murk of Kuala Lumpur’s all-night urban pool halls to misty fields freckled with the distant shapes of grazing water buffalo, Tai Yang Yue – Rain Dogs is a tough and tender film about people coming of age in uncertain times and places; an intimate portrait of the unspoken and sometimes nearly unfathomable bonds that hold parents and children together – and the emotional faultlines that can open unbridgeable chasms between them, and force even the closest of family relations apart.