Tsai Ming-liang
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- October 27, 1957, Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia
- Movies
- 85
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.
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Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 2026 | Mr. Kim Goes to the Cinema | Self |
| 2025 | The Ozu Diaries | Self |
| 2024 | Jean-Pierre Léaud: The Child of Cinema | Self - Filmmaker |
| 2022 | Making-of du tournage de Tsai Ming-Liang au Centre Pompidou | |
| 2022 | Where Do You Stand, Tsai Ming-liang? | |
| 2022 | The Pursuit of a Cinematic Dream - Tsai Ming-Liang | Tsai Ming-liang |
| 2021 | Wandering | |
| 2018 | Your Face | Self |
| 2018 | Wiara | Self |
| 2015 | Afternoon | Self |
| 2015 | French Cinema Mon Amour | Self |
| 2014 | Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema | Self |
| 2013 | Past Present | Self |
| 2009 | Taipei 24H | |
| 2009 | Visage | |
| 2009 | Flowers in the Mirror, Moon in the Water | Self as the film director of Visage |
| 2009 | Remembrance | Client |
| 2008 | Sleeping on Dark Waters | |
| 2003 | Moonlight in the River | Narrator |
| 2002 | Our Time, Our Story | Self |
| 2002 | Looking for Tsai | Himself |
| 2001 | Léaud l'unique | Self - filmmaker |
| 1998 | Yang ± Yin: Gender in Chinese Cinema | Self |
| 1995 | My New Friends | Himself |
Directing, Writing & Producing
| 2026 | Dust | Director |
| 2025 | Night Journey | Screenplay, Director |
| 2025 | Back Home | Director |
| 2024 | Abiding Nowhere | Director |
| 2024 | Xining Public Housing | Director |
| 2023 | Yilan | Director |
| 2023 | Strolling Around | Director |
| 2022 | Where | Director |
| 2022 | Where Do You Stand, Tsai Ming-liang? | Director |
| 2021 | Wandering | Director |
| 2021 | The Moon and the Tree | Director |
| 2021 | The Night | Director, Writer |
| 2021 | Days | Director, Writer |
| 2018 | Light | Director |
| 2018 | Your Face | Director, Producer |
| 2018 | Sand | Screenplay, Director |
| 2018 | The Deserted | Director |
| 2016 | Single Belief | Producer |
| 2016 | Autumn Days | Director |
| 2015 | Afternoon | Director |
| 2015 | No No Sleep | Director |
| 2015 | Beautiful 2015 | Director |
| 2014 | Journey to the West | Director |
| 2014 | Stray Dogs | Director, Writer |
| 2013 | Letters from the South | Director, Screenplay |
| 2012 | Walker | Director, Writer |
| 2012 | Diamond Sutra | Director, Writer |
| 2012 | Sleepwalk | Writer, Director |
| 2012 | No Form | Director, Screenplay |
| 2012 | Beautiful 2012 | Director |
| 2012 | Transformation | Director |
| 2009 | Visage | Director, Screenplay, Producer, Writer |
| 2009 | Madame Butterfly | Writer, Director |
| 2008 | Sleeping on Dark Waters | Director |
| 2007 | To Each His Own Cinema | Director |
| 2007 | Help Me, Eros | Producer |
| 2007 | It's a Dream | Director, Writer |
| 2006 | I Don't Want to Sleep Alone | Director, Writer |
| 2005 | The Wayward Cloud | Writer, Director |
| 2004 | Aquarium | Director |
| 2004 | Welcome to São Paulo | Director |
| 2004 | My Stinking Kid | Director |
| 2003 | Goodbye, Dragon Inn | Writer, Director |
| 2003 | The Skywalk Is Gone | Director, Screenplay |
| 2003 | Moonlight in the River | Director |
| 2001 | What Time Is It There? | Director, Screenplay |
| 2001 | The Moon is Gone | Director |
| 2001 | A Conversation with God | Director |
| 1998 | The Hole | Screenplay, Director |
| 1997 | The River | Screenplay, Director |
| 1995 | My New Friends | Director |
| 1994 | Vive L'Amour | Director, Screenplay |
| 1994 | Rebels of the Neon God | Director, Screenplay |
| 1991 | Boys | Director, Writer |
| 1991 | Give Me a Home | Director, Writer |
| 1990 | Li-hsiang’s Love Line | Director, Writer |
| 1989 | All the Corners of the World | Director, Writer |
| 1987 | The Game They Call Sex | Writer |
| 1985 | Run Away | Writer |
| 1985 | Spring Daddy | Writer |
| 1984 | Teenage Fugitive | Screenplay |
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