Tsai Ming-liang (Chinese: 蔡明亮; Pinyin: Cài Míngliàng) is a realizer Taiwan board, born the October 27th 1957 with Kuching, in Malaysia.
Biography
Tsai is born in Malaysia where it spends the first 20 years of its life in a small village. It leaves for Taipei to study the dramatic arts and the cinema with the Cultural Université of China. It begins its career as producer for the theater. He writes then scenarios and carries out for the television of HongKong several means-measurings on the adolescence of which All corners of the world in 1989 and the boys in 1991.
Its films are produced by the official studio of the Kuomintang, the exchange Motion Pictures Corporation, the same one which produced first films of the Taiwanese new wave.
He passes to the cinema in 1992 with the Rebels of the god neon . He will become little by little one of the sure values of the second Taiwanese wave by offering a pessimistic vision of the company. It is interested in the difficulty in communicating and liking through lost teenagers.
He carries out in 1994 Vive the love , a reflection on the love which receives the Gold Lion to the Festival of Venice. He continues with the drama the River crowned by the Special price of the Jury to the Berlin. In 1995, it approaches the Science-fiction with The Hole , preceded with Cannes which confirms its talent.
In 2001, Tsai Ming-liang And over there, what time is it carries out? then the following year short-measuring the Bridge is not there any more then poetic the Goodbye, Dragon In .
It returns in 2005 with the musical comedy the Savor of the water melon which dissociates its preceding films.
In 2006, it carries out I Don' T Want to Sleep Alone which occurs in Malaysia.
Catalog of films
Realization
- 1989 : All the Corners off the World (TV)
- 1990: My Name is Mary (TV)
- 1990: Li Hsiang' S Coils Line (TV)
- 1990: Ah Hsiung' S First Coils (TV)
- 1991: Give has Me Home (TV)
- 1991: Servant boys ( Xiao hai ) (TV)
- 1992: Rebels of the god neon ( Ch' ing shaonien Na cha )
- 1994: Lives the love ( Aiqing wansui )
- 1995: My New Friends ( Wo xin renshi of pengyou ) (TV)
- 1997: the River ( He liu )
- 1998: The Hole ( Dong )
- 2001: Fish, Underground
- 2001: has Conversation with God (c.m.)
- 2001: And over there, what time is it? ( Nor neibian jidian )
- 2001: The Missing Moon (TV)
- 2002: the Bridge is not there any more ( Tianqiao drunk jianle )
- 2002: The Skywalk is Gone (c.m.)
- 2003: Good Bye, Dragon In ( Drunk san )
- 2003: Moonlight one to rivet (c.m.)
- 2001: My Stinking Kid (TV)
- 2004: Welcome to São Paulo ( Bem-Vindo has São Paulo )
- 2005: the Savor of the water melon ( Tian bian yi duet yun )
- 2006: I Don' T Want to Sleep Alone ( Hei yan quan )
- 2007: It' S.A. Dream (Segment of Each one its cinema )
Scenario
- 1982 : Windmill and Train
- 1982: Little Fugitive
- 1984: Run Away ( This my Ru flax ), of Wang You ung
- 1985: Papa' S Spring ( Yang chun lao Ba ), of Wang You ung
- 1985: Kung Fu Kids III: The Orphan' S Journey
- 1987: Yellow Story
- 1989 : Endless Coils (TV)
- 1992: Rebels of the god neon ( Ch' ing shaonien Na cha )
- 1994: Lives the love ( Aiqing wansui )
- 1997: the River ( He liu )
- 1998: The Hole ( Dong )
- 2001: And over there, what time is it? ( Nor neibian jidian )
- 2002: the Bridge is not there any more ( Tianqiao drunk jianle )
- 2003: Good Bye, Dragon In ( Drunk san )
- 2005: the Savor of the water melon ( Tian bian yi duet yun )
- 2006: I Don' T Want to Sleep Alone ( Hei yan quan )
Installations
- 2004 : Hooted Diao (Jin Men Bunker Museum)
- 2007: It' S.A. Dream (video Installation, Venice 2007)
Theater
- 1981 : Urgent Bean Sauce Noodle
- 1982: has Sealed Door in the Dark
- 1983: Wardrobe in the Room
- 1984: Apartment Lovesong
- 1998: Hsiao-Kang and has Table
External bonds
- Tsai Ming-liang on Internet Movie Database
- Interview of the scenario writer by Sancho does Asia
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