Tsai Ming-liang
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 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.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: October 27, 1957
Deathday: N/A
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Missing Pictures
2021-06-09
Missing Pictures
Overview: For every film completed, dozens of potential films fall by the wayside and never make it onto the big screen. In the VR experience Missing Pictures, Abel Ferrara, Tsai Ming-liang, Catherine Hardwicke, Naomi Kawase, and Lee Myung-Se give us a guided tour of a story they were not able to tell.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-06-09
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Past Present
2013-10-04
Past Present
Overview: A contemplative trip down memory lane with one of the leading voices of the Second New Wave of Taiwanese Cinema. Saw Tiong Guan clearly established a very personal bond with his subject, and also found many of Tsai Ming-liang’s colleagues prepared to complete this portrait of a quiet yet outspoken artist.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2013-10-04
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Sleeping on Dark Waters
2008-01-01
Sleeping on Dark Waters
Overview: A behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of Ming-liang Tsai’s I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-01-01
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The Pursuit of a Cinematic Dream - Tsai Ming-Liang
2022-11-11
The Pursuit of a Cinematic Dream - Tsai Ming-Liang
Overview: A leading figure of the "Second New Wave" of Taiwanese cinema, award-winning Director Tsai Ming-Liang has left his mark on the art world with his minimalist dialogues, contemplative fixed shots, and unmistakable depictions of urban settings. But what's left to achieve when most of your dreams have come true? Exclusively for TaiwanPlus, Tsai, who promised himself not to make more than ten feature films - but already has eleven to his credit - discusses the origins of his art and the future of his cinematographic commitment.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-11-11
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Wandering
2021-12-01
Wandering
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 2021-12-01
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Yang ± Yin: Gender in Chinese Cinema
1998-06-04
Yang ± Yin: Gender in Chinese Cinema
Overview: 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. Utilizing both film excerpts and interviews with many leading directors and academics, the film examines topics such as male bonding in kung fu movies, depictions of same-sex bonding and physical intimacy, the emphasis on women's grievances in melodramas, and the career of Yam Kim-Fai, a Hong Kong actress who spent her life portraying men on and off the screen.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1998-06-04
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Where Do You Stand, Tsai Ming-liang?
2022-11-25
Where Do You Stand, Tsai Ming-liang?
Overview: "For reasons of health, Lee Kang-sheng and I moved to the mountains. We don't have any neighbors. Our house is part of a row of dilapidated houses. I love these abandoned houses. I often walk around in them casually. I think they are beautiful. I said to Lee Kang-sheng: we don't have to go elsewhere to make films anymore. I'll make all my remaining films right here. I got some old chairs and some of my paintings and arranged them in these abandoned houses. And thus, this film was made." Tsai Ming-liang
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-11-25
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seascape
seascape
Overview: An audio-visual collage of New York City juxtaposed with a Washington seaside. Featuring words from director Tsai Ming-liang.
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Original Language: en
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Taipei 24H
2009-10-09
Taipei 24H
Overview: 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. Well-known director Tsai Ming-liang makes a rare appearance visiting a late night coffee shop. Taipei 24H is a contemporary urban chronicle of a city rarely at sleep.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2009-10-09
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Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema
2014-10-01
Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema
Overview: 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. This engaging documentary looks at the movement's legacy.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2014-10-01
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Making-of du tournage de Tsai Ming-Liang au Centre Pompidou
2022-12-28
Making-of du tournage de Tsai Ming-Liang au Centre Pompidou
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Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2022-12-28
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Afternoon
2015-09-12
Afternoon
Overview: Lush jungle and a building in ruins are the ideal stage for a film-confession that defies storytelling and goes beyond conversation on cinema. Tsai Ming-Liang and his actor Lee Kang-sheng confess and put on stage a pièce in which attention and slowness are in tune with the rhythm of memory. The unveiling of Tsai Ming-liang’s filmmaking: from Stray Dogs to the most intimate notes of the director-actor relationship.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2015-09-12
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French Cinema Mon Amour
2015-07-06
French Cinema Mon Amour
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-07-06
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Flowers in the Mirror, Moon in the Water
2009-06-28
Flowers in the Mirror, Moon in the Water
Overview: The title of the François Lunel film is the Buddhist proverb concluding by: "all is but illusion". His movie draws the Tsai Ming-Liang's face during the shooting of his movie Visage, which itself is also a movie within a movie.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-06-28
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Our Time, Our Story
2002-10-25
Our Time, Our Story
Overview: 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. Spearheaded in its early years by such filmmakers as Edward Yang, Ko I-cheng, Hou Hsiao-hsien and Wan Jen, the movement revitalized Taiwan cinema through low-budget experiments that emphasized personal stories, political reflection and stylistic invention. Said filmmakers, writers and actors like Wu Nien-jen and Sylvia Chang, even "second wave" directors Tsai Ming-liang and Lin Cheng-sheng provide fond reminiscences and retrospective insights in this compelling account of one of the most distinctive national cinemas of the last quarter-century.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2002-10-25
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Moonlight in the River
2003-01-01
Moonlight in the River
Overview: 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. The piece follows two dogs roaming the Tamshui River in Taipei, accompanied by the director's voice-over as he reads a written dedication for Field.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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Your Face
2018-09-07
Your Face
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2018-09-07
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My New Friends
1995-01-01
My New Friends
Overview: 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 HIV+ young men. Sadly the identities of the interviewees have to be concealed, and so the freewheeling camerawork focuses most often on Tsai himself; but the sense of rapport between the director and his 'new friends' is palpable and very moving, even to Western viewers already only too familiar with these issues.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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Wiara
2018-01-14
Wiara
Overview: Six authorities of cinema describe their approach to transcendence, mysticism, spirituality and life after dead.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-01-14
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Looking for Tsai
2002-06-06
Looking for Tsai
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-06-06
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Face
2009-10-02
Face
Overview: Hsiao-Kang, a Taiwanese film director, travels to the Louvre in Paris, France, to shoot a film that explores the Salomé myth.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-10-02
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Jean-Pierre Léaud: The Child of Cinema
2024-09-04
Jean-Pierre Léaud: The Child of Cinema
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-09-04
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