Tsai Ming-liang
Birthday: 1957-10-27
Place of Birth: Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia
Biography: Tsai Ming-liang (Chinese: 蔡 明亮, Pinyin: Cài Míngliàng; born October 27, 1957) is a Malaysian-Taiwanese filmmaker. He has written and directed 11 feature films and has also directed many short films, television films, documentaries and art installations. Tsai is one of the most celebrated "Second New Wave" film directors of Taiwanese cinema. His films have been acclaimed worldwide and have won numerous film festival awards.
Movies
Missing Pictures
For every film completed, dozens of potential films fall by the wayside and never make it onto the b...
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Past Present
A contemplative trip down memory lane with one of the leading voices of the Second New Wave of Taiwa...
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Sleeping on Dark Waters
A behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of Ming-liang Tsai’s I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone....
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The Pursuit of a Cinematic Dream - Tsai Ming-Liang
A leading figure of the "Second New Wave" of Taiwanese cinema, award-winning Director Tsai Ming-Lian...
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Wandering
This short by Tsai Ming-liang, completed in 2021, was filmed at "the Dune" in Yilan, Taiwan, where t...
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Yang ± Yin: Gender in Chinese Cinema
An exploration of Chinese cinema and its relationships with gender and sexuality, which the film arg...
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Where Do You Stand, Tsai Ming-liang?
"For reasons of health, Lee Kang-sheng and I moved to the mountains. We don't have any neighbors. Ou...
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seascape
An audio-visual collage of New York City juxtaposed with a Washington seaside. Featuring words from ...
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Taipei 24H
Taipei 24H divides 24 hours in Taipei into 8 shorts. It opens with Cheng Fen-fen's upbeat and comedi...
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Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema
With Taiwan remaining in the grip of martial law in 1982, a group of filmmakers from that country se...
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Afternoon
Lush jungle and a building in ruins are the ideal stage for a film-confession that defies storytelli...
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French Cinema Mon Amour
French Cinema Mon Amour is an ensemble film in which each contributor brings their own voice, their ...
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Flowers in the Mirror, Moon in the Water
The title of the François Lunel film is the Buddhist proverb concluding by: "all is but illusion". H...
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Our Time, Our Story
Richly illustrated with film clips and interviews, OUR TIME, OUR STORY tells the still-evolving stor...
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Moonlight in the River
Tsai Ming-liang designed this short film as a farewell to his friend Simon Field, who was about to l...
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Your Face
Composed of a series of portrait shots of mostly anonymous individuals, filmmaker Tsai Ming-liang's ...
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My New Friends
Tsai interrupted his pre-production for The River to make this pioneering documentary for Taiwan's n...
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Wiara
Six authorities of cinema describe their approach to transcendence, mysticism, spirituality and life...
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Looking for Tsai
Human shortcomings in the pursuit of an idol. Two film school students travel to interview Taiwanese...
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Face
Hsiao-Kang, a Taiwanese film director, travels to the Louvre in Paris, France, to shoot a film that ...
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Jean-Pierre Léaud: The Child of Cinema
A portrait of the legendary actor Jean-Pierre Léaud, icon of the French New Wave and closely linked ...
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The Ozu Diaries
Unveiling Yasujiro Ozu’s legacy through his personal diaries, letters, and interviews, the documenta...
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Mr. Kim Goes to the Cinema
The first feature documentary directed by Kim Dong-ho, former festival director of the Busan Interna...
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Remembrance
About remembrance, of course, but also about the aromas that remain after farewell. A woman says far...
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