Directing

Tsai Ming-liang

27.10.1957 Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia 84 credits

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.

Career

1984 2026

28 Acting 55 Directing 80 Movies 4 Series

1980

1990

2000

2010

2020

Filmography

Mr. Kim Goes to the Cinema

Director, Editor, Screenplay

The Ozu Diaries

Jean-Pierre Léaud: The Child of Cinema

Acting: Self - Filmmaker

Abiding Nowhere

Xining Public Housing

Strolling Around

Making-of du tournage de Tsai Ming-Liang au Centre Pompidou

Where Do You Stand, Tsai Ming-liang?

Acting, Cinematography, Director

The Pursuit of a Cinematic Dream - Tsai Ming-Liang

Acting: Tsai Ming-liang

Series — 2022

Acting, Director

The Moon and the Tree

Director of Photography, Director, Writer

Director, Executive Producer, Writer

Series — 2019

Acting: Self, Director, Producer

Director, Screenplay

Acting: Self, Director

French Cinema Mon Amour

Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema

Journey to the West

Director, Adaptation

Art Direction, Director, Writer

Letters from the South

Director, Screenplay

Director of Photography, Director, Writer

Director, Writer

Director, Writer

Director, Screenplay

Acting, Script, Director, Producer, Idea, Screenplay, Story, Writer

Madame Butterfly

Director of Photography, Cinematography, Director, Writer

Flowers in the Mirror, Moon in the Water

Acting: Self as the film director of Visage

Sleeping on Dark Waters

Acting, Director

To Each His Own Cinema

Art Direction, Producer

Director, Writer

I Don't Want to Sleep Alone

Director of Photography, Director, Writer

The Wayward Cloud

Director, Writer

Welcome to São Paulo

My Stinking Kid

Goodbye, Dragon Inn

Director, Writer

Executive Producer

The Skywalk Is Gone

Director, Screenplay

Moonlight in the River

Acting: Narrator, Director

Parola (su una data)

Series — 2003

Our Time, Our Story

Looking for Tsai

Acting: Himself

Léaud l'unique

Acting: Self - filmmaker

What Time Is It There?

Director, Screenplay

A Conversation with God

Director, Screenplay

Yang ± Yin: Gender in Chinese Cinema

Director, Screenplay

Acting: Himself, Director

Director, Screenplay

Rebels of the Neon God

Director, Screenplay

Director, Writer

Director, Writer

Li-hsiang’s Love Line

Director, Writer

All the Corners of the World

Director, Writer

The Game They Call Sex

Teenage Fugitive

Golden Horse Awards

Series — 1962

Stray Dogs at the Museum

Acting: Himself