Tsai Ming-liang
Biography
Tsai Ming-liang (Chinese: 蔡 明亮, Pinyin: Cài Míngliàng; born October 27, 1957) is a Malaysian-Taiwanese filmmaker. He has written and directed 11 feature films and has also directed many short films, television films, documentaries and art installations. Tsai is one of the most celebrated "Second New Wave" film directors of Taiwanese cinema. His films have been acclaimed worldwide and have won numerous film festival awards.
Acting (21 movies)
Missing Pictures
2021
Past Present
2013
Sleeping on Dark Waters
2008
Wandering
2021
Yang ± Yin: Gender in Chinese Cinema
1998
Where Do You Stand, Tsai Ming-liang?
2022
Taipei 24H
2009
Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema
2014
Making-of du tournage de Tsai Ming-Liang au Centre Pompidou
2022
Afternoon
2015
French Cinema Mon Amour
2015
Our Time, Our Story
2002
Moonlight in the River
2003
Your Face
2018
My New Friends
1995
Wiara
2018
Looking for Tsai
2002
Face
2009
Jean-Pierre Léaud: The Child of Cinema
2024
The Ozu Diaries
2025
Mr. Kim Goes to the Cinema
2025
Directing (55 movies)
Vive L'Amour
1995
What Time Is It There?
2001
I Don't Want to Sleep Alone
2006
To Each His Own Cinema
2007
The Wayward Cloud
2005
The Hole
1999
The River
1997
Face
2009
Goodbye, Dragon Inn
2003
Rebels of the Neon God
1994
Transformation
2012
Beautiful 2012
2012
Walker
2012
A Conversation with God
2001
Sleeping on Dark Waters
2008
Stray Dogs
2014
The Skywalk Is Gone
2002
No Form
2012
Madame Butterfly
2009
The Night
2021
Letters from the South
2013
Journey to the West
2014
Aquarium
2004
The Moon and the Tree
2021
Welcome to São Paulo
2004
Boys
1991
No No Sleep
2015
Walking on Water
2013
The Moon Is Gone
2001
Afternoon
2015
Sleepwalk
2012
Diamond Sutra
2012
Abiding Nowhere
2024
Wandering
2021
Where
2022
Where Do You Stand, Tsai Ming-liang?
2022
Xining Public Housing
2024
My Stinking Kid
2004
Autumn Days
2016
The Hole
2011
The Deserted
2018
Give Me a Home
1991
Your Face
2018
One & Zero
2016
Sand
2018
Light
2018
Moonlight in the River
2003
Li-hsiang’s Love Line
1990
Days
2021
My New Friends
1995
All the Corners of the World
1989
Yilan
2023
Strolling Around
2023
Back Home
2025
Beautiful 2015
2015
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| Teenage Fugitive | 1984 | Screenplay |
| Run Away | 1984 | Writer |
| Spring Daddy | 1985 | Writer |
| The Game They Call Sex | 1987 | Writer |
| All the Corners of the World | 1989 | Writer |
| Li-hsiang’s Love Line | 1990 | Writer |
| Give Me a Home | 1991 | Writer |
| Boys | 1991 | Writer |
| Rebels of the Neon God | 1994 | Screenplay |
| Vive L'Amour | 1995 | Screenplay |
| The River | 1997 | Screenplay |
| The Hole | 1999 | Screenplay |
| What Time Is It There? | 2001 | Writer |
| The Skywalk Is Gone | 2002 | Screenplay |
| The Missing | 2003 | Executive Producer |
| Goodbye, Dragon Inn | 2003 | Writer |
| The Wayward Cloud | 2005 | Writer |
| I Don't Want to Sleep Alone | 2006 | Writer |
| Help Me, Eros | 2007 | Producer |
| Madame Butterfly | 2009 | Writer |
| Face | 2009 | Screenplay |
| Face | 2009 | Producer |
| No Form | 2012 | Screenplay |
| Sleepwalk | 2012 | Writer |
| Diamond Sutra | 2012 | Writer |
| Walker | 2012 | Writer |
| Letters from the South | 2013 | Screenplay |
| Stray Dogs | 2014 | Writer |
| Single Belief | 2016 | Producer |
| Sand | 2018 | Screenplay |
| Your Face | 2018 | Producer |
| Days | 2021 | Writer |
| Days | 2021 | Executive Producer |
| The Night | 2021 | Writer |