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Hei Yan Quan |
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Taiwan/France/Austria, 2006, 118 min, Colour, Dolby SR
This film is part of New Crowned Hope, a festival for Vienna Mozart Year 2006
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Director
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Tsai Ming-Liang
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Producers
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Bruno Persery, Vincent Wang
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Executive Producers
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Simon Field, Keith Griffiths
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Screenplay
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Tsai Ming-Liang
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Cinematography
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Liao Pen Jung
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Editor
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Chen Sheng-Chang
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Art Director
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Lee Tian Jue
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Sound Design
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Tu Duu Chih
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Sound
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Tu Duu Chih, Tang Shiang-Chu
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Production Companies
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Soudaine Compagnie, Homegreen Films
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Costumes
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Sun Huei-Mei
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Lee Kang-Sheng
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Hsiao-Kang
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Chen Siang-Chyi
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Shiang-Chyi
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Norman Bin Atun
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Rawang
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After being robbed and attacked one night in Kuala Lumpur, Hsiao-kang, a homeless Chinese man, is rescued and taken in by some Bangladeshi workers. One of them, Rawang, lets him sleep beside him on an old mattress that he had found on the street. Later, when Chyi, a waitress at a coffee-shop, meets Hsiao-kang, she is filled with lustful desire. As Hsiao-kang slowly recovers, he finds himself caught between Rawang and Chyi – as well as Chyi’s female boss. Meanwhile, a heavy haze descends on the city that is so humid that it stinks of the perspiration of its multi-ethnic people. These men and women and the old mattress lose their way in the haze but find one another…
Shooting for the first time in Malaysia after 7 features set primarily in Taipei, director Tsai Ming-Liang returns to his birthplace with a film unlike any of his prior works. Different in texture, mood and feel, and featuring a cast of multi-cultural and multi-lingual characters, the vivid, crowded, neon-lit streets of Kuala Lumpur come alive as only master director Tsai Ming-Liang can capture... As with most of Tsai's films, actor Lee Kang-Sheng is featured, this time in dual roles as both a homeless bum and a paralysed young man.
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