Movies:

  • 2004
    Aquarium

    Aquarium (2004)

    Aquarium

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    Segment of the feature Welcome to São Paulo (2004), produced by São Paulo International Film Festival....

    Aquarium
  • 2009
    Madame Butterfly

    Madame Butterfly (2009)

    Madame Butterfly

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    Free interpretation of the myth. Tsai Ming-liang propels a woman neglected by her lover in the mob of the bus station of Kuala Lumpur....

    Madame Butterfly
  • 2021
    The Moon and the Tree

    The Moon and the Tree (2021)

    The Moon and the Tree

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    Follows the lives of two big stars in Taiwan. Since a failed spine surgery 40 years ago, Lee Pei-jing, known as the “Moon singer”, has been confined to a wheelchair. Actor Chang Feng is reaching one hundred years old. Tsai describes Chang as a tree, ...

    The Moon and the Tree
  • 1995
    My New Friends

    My New Friends (1995)

    My New Friends

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    Tsai interrupted his pre-production for The River to make this pioneering documentary for Taiwan's nascent AIDS-awareness campaign. Ignoring instructions to 'play down the gay angle', he centres the film on his own very candid conversations with two ...

    My New Friends
  • 1969
    seascape

    seascape (1969)

    seascape

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    An audio-visual collage of New York City juxtaposed with a Washington seaside. Featuring words from director Tsai Ming-liang....

    seascape
  • 1969
    Stray Dogs at the Museum

    Stray Dogs at the Museum (1969)

    Stray Dogs at the Museum

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    A dying forest flared up and the flavor of damp ruin, settled in on the tongue: Tsai Ming Liang created an entirely novel artwork with his tenth feature film 'Stray Dogs' at the Museum MoNTUE. Moving images eclipsed, in slivers and swathes, by immova...

    Stray Dogs at the Museum
  • 2012
    Sleepwalk

    Sleepwalk (2012)

    Sleepwalk

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    A continuation of Tsai Ming-Liang's Walker series, featuring Lee Kang-Sheng as a barefoot monk who walks very slowly....

    Sleepwalk
  • 1984
    Run Away

    Run Away (1984)

    Run Away

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    Kidnapped by a group of bandits and raped by their chief, Dan Zhu slowly develops feelings for the perpetrator. Echoing the social realism of Taiwanese new wave filmmaking, director Wang Tung revisits the wuxia genre, with the emphasis on psychology ...

    Run Away
  • 2015
    Xiao Kang

    Xiao Kang (2015)

    Xiao Kang

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    Viennale-Trailer 2015: Two-minute homage to Lee Kang-sheng, Xiao Kang....

    Xiao Kang
  • 2016
    One & Zero

    One & Zero (2016)

    One & Zero

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    Tsai Ming-liang has been living in an abandoned house in the mountains since 2014. Around the same time, his persona, actor Lee Kang-sheng, wanted to quit acting due to severe spinal pains. Tsai decided to capture Lee Kang-sheng's face as well as the...

    One & Zero
  • 2024
    Xining Public Housing

    Xining Public Housing (2024)

    Xining Public Housing

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    The Xining Public Housing complex in Taipei, built in 1983, houses more than 1,000 residents. Tsai Ming-liang filmed his first television drama and his feature The Hole (1998) here. Tsai Ming-liang quietly observes the complex, set to be demolished s...

    Xining Public Housing
  • 2018
    Light

    Light (2018)

    Light

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    "The very first Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival was held here at Zhongshan Hall. During my university days, I volunteered as a ticket seller in order to watch films for free. Many years later, I received the top award at the Taipei Film Festival in...

    Light
  • 2012
    No Form

    No Form (2012)

    No Form

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    In 2011, Tsai Ming-Liang staged a play, "Only You", for Taiwan's National Theater and Concert Hall. In it, there was a powerfully moving scene where monk Xuanzang walked at an extremely slow pace for half an hour. Lamenting the transient nature of th...

    No Form
  • 1991
    Give Me a Home

    Give Me a Home (1991)

    Give Me a Home

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    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 builds houses....

    Give Me a Home
  • 2011
    The Hole

    The Hole (2011)

    The Hole

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    Experimental short film directed by Tsai-Ming Liang for fashion designer Johan Ku’s 2011-2012 collection, where a woman wanders through the underground corridors and underworld of Taipei....

    The Hole
  • 2023
    Yilan

    Yilan (2023)

    Yilan

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    According to Tsai, “I chose to film Yilan’s Nanguan Market, the breakfast store next to the city god temple, the clay oven roll shop on Fuxing Road, and the mountains, water and paddy fields. To me, these are part of the architects’ everyday life. Wh...

    Yilan