Tsai Ming-liang
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Tsai Ming-liang (蔡明亮, pinyin: Cài Míngliàng) (born in 1957 in Kuching, Malaysia) is one of the most celebrated "Second New Wave" film directors of Taiwanese Cinema, along with such contemporaries as Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Edward Yang. His films have been acclaimed world-wide and won numerous festival awards.
Tsai is a Chinese born in Malaysia, and lived there "in a very simple small village" for 20 years after which he moved to Taipei. This, he says, had "a huge impact on [his] mind and psyche", perhaps later mirrored in his films. "Even today, I feel I belong neither to Taiwan nor to Malaysia. In a sense, I can go anywhere I want and fit in, but I never feel that sense of belonging." [1] (http://www.etaiwannews.com/Peolpes/2005/02/18/1108699760.htm) He graduated from the Drama and Cinema Department of the Chinese Cultural University of Taiwan in 1982 and worked as a theatrical producer, screenwriter and television director in Hong Kong. Tsai's honours include a Golden Lion (best picture) for Vive L'Amour at the Venice Film Festival in 1994, the Silver Bear/Special Jury Prize for The River at the 1997 Berlin International Film Festival and the FIPRESCI award for The Hole at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival.
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Filmography
Features
- Rebels of the Neon God (1992)
- Vive L'Amour (1994)
- The River (1997)
- The Hole (1998)
- What Time Is It There? (2001)
- Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003)
- Welcome to São Paulo (2004) - segment "Aquarium"
- The Wayward Cloud (2005)
Shorts
- A Conversation with God (2001)
- The Skywalk Is Gone (2002)
Telefilms
- Endless Love (1989)
- The Happy Weaver (1989)
- Far Away (1989)
- All Corners of the World (1989)
- Li Hsiang's Love Line (1990)
- My Name is Mary (1990)
- Ah-Hsiung's First Love (1990)
- Give Me a Home (1991)
- Boys (1991)
- Hsio Yueh's Dowry (1991)
- My New Friends (1995)
See also
External links
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- Tsai Ming-liang at Strictly Film School (http://www.filmref.com/directors/dirpages/tsai.html)
- The Onion AV Club (http://avclub.theonion.com/feature/index.php?issue=3807&f=2) Interview by Scott Tobiaszh:蔡明亮