Tsai Ming-liang Trailers
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Tsai Ming-liang (Chinese: 蔡 明亮, Pinyin: Cài Míngliàng; born October 27, 1957) is a Malaysian-Taiwanese filmmaker. He has written and directed 10 feature films and has also directed many short films and television films. 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.
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04 September 2024
A portrait of the legendary actor Jean-Pierre Léaud, icon of the French New Wave and closely linked to the work of François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Goddard.
12 July 1985
Zang Guang-xing is a veteran soldier from Mainland China who married a young Taiwanese woman. He has been working as a supervisor in a construction company for seven years.
13 July 1984
Kidnapped by a group of bandits and raped by their chief, Dan Zhu slowly develops feelings for the perpetrator.
31 October 2007
Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent filmmakers to produce short pieces exploring the multifarious facets of cinema and their perspective on the state of their chosen artform in the early 21st century.
04 September 2007
Having lost all his money in the stock market, a depressed man falls in love with a woman over a suicide helpline.
04 October 2013
A contemplative trip down memory lane with one of the leading voices of the Second New Wave of Taiwanese Cinema.
09 October 2009
Taipei 24H divides 24 hours in Taipei into 8 shorts. It opens with Cheng Fen-fen's upbeat and comedic "Share the Morning", and ends with Lee Kang-sheng running the final leg of this relay with "Remembrance" at 4am.
21 March 2012
A collection of shorts by four East Asian directors: Ann Hui on a male-to-female sex change, Kim Tae-yong on an emotional imposture, Gu Changwei on pregnancy in China and Tsai Ming-Liang on time and the city of Hong Kong.
01 December 2021
This short by Tsai Ming-liang, completed in 2021, was filmed at "the Dune" in Yilan, Taiwan, where the eight films in his Walker series were being shown.
02 March 1995
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 current lover; and Hsiao-kang, who's stolen the key and uses the apartment as a retreat.
12 December 2003
On a dark, wet night in Taipei City, a cavernous old picture palace is about to close its doors forever.
12 December 2003
A grandmother is looking for her grandson, a teenager for his grandfather.
19 February 2026
After the COVID-19 pandemic, Busan International Film Festival founder Kim Dong-ho, at eighty-five, picks up a camcorder for the first time and decides to make a documentary.
26 September 2001
A street vendor with a grim home-life forges a connection with a young woman on her way to Paris.
19 May 2005
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 the sales of watermelons skyrocket.
21 April 2015
In 2015, Tsai Ming-Liang was once again invited by the Hong Kong International Film Festival to make the opening short film.
04 August 1994
In Taipei, four youths face alienation, loneliness, and moments of existential crisis amidst a series of minor crimes.
07 August 1997
A young man develops severe neck pain after swimming in a polluted river for a movie shoot, but nobody can provide him any relief.
06 July 2015
French Cinema Mon Amour is an ensemble film in which each contributor brings their own voice, their own particular approach, their culture, and their language to produce a portrait of French cinema.
05 November 1987
The whole story revolves around a woman from marriage, marriage to divorce encounter sexual problems as the main axis, reflecting the Taiwan society in this regard subjective and objective taboos.
04 June 1998
An exploration of Chinese cinema and its relationships with gender and sexuality, which the film argues has been more frankly and provocatively explored than in any other national cinema.
21 February 2014
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 better life.
02 December 2006
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 street.
24 March 1999
In the final days of the year 1999, almost everyone in Taiwan has died from a strange plague that ravished the island.
31 March 2018
Tsai Ming-Liang, the artisan of cinematography approaches virtual reality, pushing the boundaries of VR film.
21 May 2021
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.
01 January 2004
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 of ammonia.
05 July 2012
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.
02 October 2009
Hsiao-Kang, a Taiwanese film director, travels to the Louvre in Paris, France, to shoot a film that explores the Salomé myth.
25 November 2022
The ninth opus of his Walker Films series, which was shot at Centre Pompidou.
20 February 2024
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 grassland.
01 January 1989
Mr and Mrs Chang live in Taipei's Hsi-Men-Ding (the city's entertainment/red light/nightlife district) with their teenaged kids.
01 November 2025
A sleeping city, streets without people. A figure in a red robe walks slowly — across a carpet of leaves, over cobblestones, along the cold pavement.
24 April 2014
In 2014, Tsai Ming-Liang was invited to make a film for the MarseilleFID, Marseille International Film Festival.
07 September 2018
Composed of a series of portrait shots of mostly anonymous individuals, filmmaker Tsai Ming-liang's digital experiment turns the human face into a subject of dramatic intrigue.
06 June 2002
Human shortcomings in the pursuit of an idol. Two film school students travel to interview Taiwanese film director Tsai Ming-liang and actor Lee Kang-sheng in Oslo.
01 January 1991
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.
27 August 2012
A continuation of Tsai Ming-Liang's Walker series, featuring Lee Kang-Sheng as a barefoot monk who walks very slowly.
28 April 2001
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 camera.
02 September 2025
Unveiling Yasujiro Ozu’s legacy through his personal diaries, letters, and interviews, the documentary delves into his life, creative process, and lasting impact on filmmaking.
28 April 2018
In 2018, Tsai Ming-Liang was invited by the Northeast and Yilan Coast National Scenic Area Administration to make this film, his eighth in the "Walker" series.
03 October 2021
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.
08 September 2012
In 2012, the Hong Kong International Film Festival invited Tsai Ming-Ling to make the opening short film.
01 January 2012
In order to recreate a photograph, two actors undergo a transformation.
16 July 2004
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.
01 October 2014
With Taiwan remaining in the grip of martial law in 1982, a group of filmmakers from that country set out to establish a cultural identity through cinema and to share it with the world.
08 October 2002
A young woman wandering around meets a young man going to a casting call for a pornographic film.
10 April 1991
A junior-high student bullies and blackmails a younger boy, then receives the same treatment at the hands of some older students.
01 September 2021
In 2019, the night in Hong Kong was still in fascinating beauty and the landscape of everyday life was gradually changing.
13 October 2016
A documentary about Nogami Teruyo, who for nearly half a century stood by Akira Kurosawa as a screenwriting collaborator, a script supervisor, and a companion.
05 September 2025
Tsai Ming-liang's new film, Back Home, depicts Anong Houngheuangsy and the daily life of his home village in Laos.
12 September 2015
Lush jungle and a building in ruins are the ideal stage for a film-confession that defies storytelling and goes beyond conversation on cinema.
07 September 2012
In 2012, Taiwanese architects Michael Lin and Liao Wei-li invited Tsai Ming-Liang to create moving visuals for their exhibit at the Venise Architecture Biennale.
25 March 2015
Understanding "beauty" for 2015... From Beijing, Huang Jianxin wonders if it's nobler to sleep or not to sleep in Insomniac Diary.
01 October 2018
"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.
10 July 2009
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.
06 October 2013
Six filmmakers present six short films about the experiences of Chinese immigrants. Shot across Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore and Myanmar, the anthology depicts the crisis of identity that accompanies international migration.
01 January 2003
Tsai Ming-liang designed this short film as a farewell to his friend Simon Field, who was about to leave his position as director of the Rotterdam Festival after eight years in office.
28 October 2016
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.
25 October 2002
Richly illustrated with film clips and interviews, OUR TIME, OUR STORY tells the still-evolving story of the Taiwanese "new wave," from its rise in the early 1980s, as the island was democratizing after decades under martial law, through growing international recognition and domestic debate in the 1990s.
