Tsai Ming-Liang

Activities : Director, Screenwriter, Director of Photography

Recent filmography (French films only)Complete filmography (9 films)

Madam Butterfly (2009) Director : Tsai Ming-Liang Actress : Pearly Chua Associate production company : House On Fire Genres : Fiction Synopsis : A free nterpretation of the myth in which Tsai Ming-Liang propels a woman abandoned by her lover into the bustle of a bus station in Kuala Lumpur.

Face (2009) Director : Tsai Ming-Liang Actors : Fanny Ardant, Lætitia Casta, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Lee Kang-Sheng, Lu Yi-Ching... Associate production company : JBA Production Genres : Fiction Synopsis : A Taiwanese filmmaker makes a film at the Louvre Museum based on the myth of Salome. Although he speaks neither French nor English, he insists on giving the part of King Herod to the French actor Jean-Pierre Léaud. To give the...

To Each His Own Cinema (2007) Directors : Théo Angelopoulos, Olivier Assayas, Bille August, Jane Campion, Youssef Chahine... Associate production company : Elzévir Films Genres : Fiction Synopsis : This collection of sketches was made to celebrate the Cannes Film Festival's 60th anniversary. 35 filmmakers from 25 countries each made a 3-minute film whose theme was the movie theater.

I Don't Want to Sleep Alone (2006) Director : Tsai Ming-Liang Actors : Lee Kang-Sheng, Shiang-Chyi Chen, Norman Atun, Pearly Chua Associate production company : Soudaine Compagnie Genres : Fiction Synopsis : Kuala Lumpur. A homeless man, Hsiao Kang, is attacked one night in the street. His attackers steal everything he has and leave him for dead. Bangladeshi workers find him and take him home to the abandoned building in which they...

Un nuage au bord du ciel (2005) Director : Tsai Ming-Liang French distribution : Diaphana Films

The Wayward cloud (2004) Director : Tsai Ming-Liang Actors : Lee Kang-Sheng, Shiang-Chyi Chen, Lu Yi-Ching, Kuei-Mei Yang, Yozakura Sumomo... Associate production company : Arena Films Genres : Fiction Synopsis : The drought is so intense in Taiwan that citizens have been asked to replace water with melon juice. She steals water from public lavatories to get by. He climbs on to the roofs once night has fallen, trying to freshen up in the...

Delegations (2)

	Rotterdam International Film Festival - 2010 Director : Face Type : Feature film and short film festival Location : Netherlands
	Toronto - International Film Festival - 2009 Director : Face Type : Feature film festival Location : Canada