Tsai Ming-liang

The walker with the shaved head and dressed in a red robe is barefoot. He walks slowly but determinedly through the forest, over stones and ...

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.

Composed of a series of portrait shots of mostly anonymous individuals, filmmaker Tsai Ming-liang’s digital experiment turns the human face ...

In 2015, Tsai Ming-Liang was once again invited by the Hong Kong International Film Festival to make the opening short film. This time, he ...

Understanding “beauty” for 2015… From Beijing, Huang Jianxin wonders if it’s nobler to sleep or not to sleep in Insomniac ...

In 2014, Tsai Ming-Liang was invited to make a film for the MarseilleFID, Marseille International Film Festival. Since he was not familiar with ...

An alcoholic man and his two young children barely survive in Taipei. They cross paths with a lonely grocery clerk who might help them make a ...

Six filmmakers present six short films about the experiences of Chinese immigrants. Shot across Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore and Myanmar, the ...

In 2013, Tsai Ming-Liang was invited by Malaysian filmmaker Tan Chui Mui to make a short film for an anthology film, “Letters from the ...

In 2012, the Hong Kong International Film Festival invited Tsai Ming-Ling to make the opening short film. Having grown up with Hong Kong’s ...

Hsiao-Kang, a Taiwanese film director, travels to the Louvre in Paris, France, to shoot a film that explores the Salomé myth.

Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, “To Each His Own Cinema” brought together 33 of the ...

Rawang, an immigrant from Bangladesh living in awful conditions, takes pity on a Chinese man, Hsiao-kang, who is beaten up and left in the ...

Hsiao-Kang, now working as an adult movie actor, meets Shiang-chyi once again. Meanwhile, the city of Taipei faces a water shortage that makes ...

All the feature is given prestige to by the narration in Caetano Veloso’s voice, that also signs one of the segments of the project. São ...

Drama about a young boy who suffers from a rare deficiency disease. The medicine he has to take every day has the side effect of making him reek ...

On a dark and rainy night, a historic and regal Taipei cinema sees its final film: 1967 martial arts feature “Dragon Inn”.

A young woman wandering around meets a young man going to a casting call for a pornographic film.

A street vendor with a grim home-life forges a connection with a young woman on her way to Paris.

The original subject intended for this film was a spiritual medium who was unbelievably accurate. Tsai Ming-liang jumped on his 50cc motorbike, ...

Tsai Ming-liang directed in 2001 this episode of the popular Taiwanese TV children show Fruit Pie (《水果冰淇淋》), although it rarely appears on Tsai’s ...

In the final days of the year 1999, almost everyone in Taiwan has died from a strange plague that ravished the island. As rain pours down ...

A young man develops severe neck pain after swimming in a polluted river for a movie shoot, but nobody can provide him any relief.

Three lonely young denizens of Taipei unknowingly share an apartment: May, a real estate agent who uses it for her sexual affairs; Ah-jung, her ...

Tsai interrupted his pre-production for The River to make this pioneering documentary for Taiwan’s nascent AIDS-awareness campaign. ...

In Taipei, revenge and love twist the paths of wayward youths.

A junior-high student bullies and blackmails a younger boy, then receives the same treatment at the hands of some older students.

This sociological drama focuses on a construction worker’s family who cannot afford a house of their own, even though the head of the family ...

A quiet story that follows the development of a love affair between an unmarried factory worker and the widowed factory manager.

Mr and Mrs Chang live in Taipei’s Hsi-Men-Ding (the city’s entertainment/red light/nightlife district) with their teenaged kids. The ...