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Tag Archives: Ming-liang Tsai
Face AKA Visage (2009) Ming-liang Tsai, Kang-sheng Lee, Yi-Ching Lu, Fanny Ardant
Hsiao-Kang, a Taiwanese film director, travels to the Louvre in Paris, France, to shoot a film that explores the Salomé myth. Read More »
Journey to the West AKA Xi you (2014) Ming-liang Tsai, Kang-sheng Lee, Denis Lavant
In “Journey to the West,” helmer Tsai Ming-liang’s perennial protagonist, Lee Kang-sheng Read More »
The Hole (1998) Ming-liang Tsai, Kuei-Mei Yang, Kang-sheng Lee, Tien Miao
A strange disease starts to affect people in Taiwan just before the year 2000. Read More »
Bu san / Good Bye, Dragon Inn (2003) Ming-liang Tsai, Kang-sheng Lee, Shiang-chyi Chen, Kiyonobu Mitamura, Drama, Comedy
A Japanese tourist takes refuge from a rainstorm inside a once-popular movie theater, a decrepit old barn of a cinema that is screening a martial arts classic, King Hu’s 1966 “Dragon Inn.” Read More »
Ni na bian ji dian / What Time is it There? (2001) Ming-liang Tsai, Kang-sheng Lee, Shiang-chyi Chen, Yi-Ching Lu, Drama, Romance
When a young street vendor with a grim home life meets a woman on her way to Paris, they forge an instant connection. Read More »
Qing shao nian nuo zha / Rebels of the Neon God (1992) Ming-liang Tsai, Chao-jung Chen, Chang-bin Jen, Kang-sheng Lee, Crime, Drama
Defying his parents, Hsiao Kang drops out of the local crammer to head for the bright lights of downtown Taipei. He falls in with Ah Tze, a pretty hood and their relationships is a confused mixture of hero-worship and rivalry that soon leads to trouble.
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