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Tsai Ming-liang has 6 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1990s through the 2000s.
In Taipei, four youths face alienation, loneliness, and moments of existential crisis amidst a series of minor crimes.
Dir. Tsai Ming-liang · With Lee Kang-sheng, Chen Chao-jung, Wang Yu-wen
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.
Dir. Tsai Ming-liang · With Lee Kang-sheng, Yang Kuei-mei, Chen Chao-jung
A street vendor with a grim home-life forges a connection with a young woman on her way to Paris.
Dir. Tsai Ming-liang · With Lee Kang-sheng, Chen Shiang-Chyi, Lu Yi-ching
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.
Dir. Michael Cimino, Luc Dardenne, Atom Egoyan, Chen Kaige, Manoel de Oliveira, Bille August, Andrei Konchalovsky, Claude Lelouch, Walter Salles, Tsai Ming-liang, Theo Angelopoulos, Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Olivier Assayas, Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Takeshi Kitano, Roman Polanski, Gus Van Sant, Abbas Kiarostami, David Cronenberg, David Lynch, Jane Campion, Raymond Depardon, Amos Gitai, Nanni Moretti, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Elia Suleiman, Aki Kaurismäki, Raúl Ruiz, Lars von Trier, Wong Kar-Wai, Ken Loach, Wim Wenders, Youssef Chahine, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, Zhang Yimou · With Golshifteh Farahani, Taraneh Alidoosti, Pegah Ahangarani
On a dark, wet night in Taipei City, a cavernous old picture palace is about to close its doors forever. A meager audience, the remaining few staff, and perhaps even a ghost or two, watch King Hu’s wuxia classic "Dragon Inn", each haunted by memories and desires evoked by cinema itself.
Dir. Tsai Ming-liang · With Lee Kang-sheng, Chen Shiang-Chyi, Kiyonobu Mitamura
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.
Dir. Tsai Ming-liang · With Lee Kang-sheng, Chen Shiang-Chyi, Lu Yi-ching