Tsai Ming-liang – MRQE

Dust

Mon, 10 Aug 2026 04:00:00 +0000

A horsewoman unpicks her memories and regrets.

Tian qiao bu jian le

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A young woman wandering around meets a young man going to a casting call for a pornographic film.

Stray Dogs

Sun, 31 May 2026 04:00:00 +0000

In the newest film from Tsai Ming-liang, a single father makes his meager living holding up an advertising placard on a traffic island in the middle of a busy highway. His children wait out their days in supermarkets before they eat with their father and go to sleep in an abandoned building. As the father starts to come apart, a woman in the supermarket takes the children under her wing. There are real stray dogs to be fed in Tsai’s everyday apocalypse, but the title also refers to its principal characters, living the cruelest of existences on the ragged edges of the modern world. STRAY DOGS is many things at once: minimal in its narrative content and syntax, as visually powerful as it is emotionally overwhelming, and bracingly pure in both its anger and its compassion. One of the finest works of an extraordinary artist.

Ni na bian ji dian

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

When a young street vendor with a grim home life meets a woman on her way to Paris, they forge an instant connection. He changes all the clocks in Taipei to French time, as he watches François Truffaut’s Les 400 Coups; she has a strange encounter with its now-aging star, Jean-Pierre Leaud.

Rizi

Sun, 14 Jun 2026 04:00:00 +0000

Kang lives alone in a big house, Non in a small apartment in town. They meet, and then part, their days flowing on as before.

He liu

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A young man develops severe neck pain after swimming in a polluted river; his dysfunctional parents are unable to provide any relief for him or themselves.

Hei yan quan

Thu, 04 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Rawang, an immigrant from Bangladesh living in awful conditions, takes pity on a Chinese man, Hsiao-kang, who is beaten up and left in the street. Rawang lovingly nurses him on a mattress he found. When he is almost healed, Hsiao-kang meets the waitress Chyi. His love for Rawang is put to the test.

Tian bian yi duo yun

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Hsiao-Kang, now working as an adult movie actor, meets Shiang-chyi once again. Meanwhile, the city of Taipei faces a water shortage that makes the sales of watermelons skyrocket.

Bu san

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

On a dark and rainy night, a historic and regal Taipei cinema sees its final film: 1967 martial arts feature “Dragon Inn”. As the film plays, the lives of the theater’s various employees and patrons intersect, and two ghostly actors arrive to mourn the passing of an era.

Fish, Underground

Fri, 13 Mar 2026 04:00:00 +0000

The original subject intended for this film was a spiritual medium who was unbelievably accurate. Tsai Ming-liang jumped on his 50cc motorbike, equipped with a DV camera ready to shoot her, to see whether the god would speak to his camera. But on the way, he was caught in a traffic jam of people gathered at another gods festival. A man in a trance, flashy karaoke girls on stage, a power black-out. During his diversion, the camera discovers fish and underground passages