Tsai Ming-liang
12 titles · taiwanese new wave
Loneliness filmed at length and almost without dialogue. Tsai returns to the same actor (Lee Kang-sheng) across decades, in leaking apartments and emptying cinemas, and lets shots run far past the point where information stops arriving. Water is everywhere — rain, flooding, plumbing that will not stop.
Signature
- Extremely long fixed takes; scenes with no dialogue at all.
- Lee Kang-sheng aging in real time across the filmography.
- Failing architecture: leaks, damp, buildings about to close.
- Sudden musical numbers puncturing the silence.
Vive L'Amour
Rebels of the Neon God
The Wayward Cloud
What Time Is It There?
Stray Dogs
The Hole
The River
I Don't Want to Sleep Alone
Days
Visage
All the Corners of the World
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