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Tsai Ming-Liang
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Tsai Ming-Liang was born and raised in Kuching, Malaysia where he was introduced by his grand-parents to the popular cinema of China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and other Asian countries. In 1977 he moved to Taiwan and went to study film and drama at the Chinese Culture University, during which time he became acquainted with the European New Wave cinema. After graduation he wrote and staged plays, often beginning to explore the themes of contemporary life, loneliness and alienation which became regular themes of his films. For nearly ten years, he worked in TV and developed scenarios and then in 1989 and 1990 directed a series of telefilms, including THE KIDS, which marked his move towards cinema and during which he discovered his favourite actor Lee Kang-Sheng. Lee was to take the central role in all his films from REBELS OF THE NEON GOD onwards. With this film and with VIVE L'AMOUR, which won the Golden Lion Award at the 1994 Venice Film Festival, Tsai began to be acclaimed as a major new voice in the Asian cinema. Over the series of films that followed he came to be recognised as a new modern master of cinema to stand alongside his fellow Taiwanese Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Edward Yang. He has received numerous awards, most recently for the Berlin Silver Bear for THE WAYWARD CLOUD.
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2006 I DON'T WANT TO SLEEP ALONE
2005 THE WAYWARD CLOUD
2003 GOODBYE DRAGON INN
2002 THE SKYWALK IS GONE (short)
2001 WHAT TIME IS IT THERE?
1998 THE HOLE
1997 THE RIVER
1994 VIVE L'AMOUR
1992 REBELS OF THE NEON GOD
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