★ One of the masterpieces of international director Tsai Ming Liang
★ Golden Lion and FIPRESCI Award, Venice Film Festival, 1994
★ Best Feature Film, Best Director and Best Sound Recording, Golden Horse Awards, 1994
In cold, urban Taipei, the lives of three lonely people converge as they unwittingly inhabit the same luxury apartment.
Using a stolen apartment key, salesman Hsiao-kang secretly moves into a vacant unit for sale. He hides from real estate agent May Lin, who returns one night for a tryst with street peddler Ah-jung. Needing a place to stay, Ah-jung also begins squatting in the apartment. As the three silently, or unknowingly, share the condominium, they each long for a connection they cannot articulate.
Tsai Ming Liang’s slow-burn drama of repressed intimacies paints melancholic 1990s Taipei with raw minimalism and empathy. While the busy city is rife with movement, its inhabitants exist in a fog of urban malaise. The abandoned apartment becomes a home to unrequited desires.
Director: Tsai Ming Liang
Cast: Yang Kuei Mei, Lee Kang Sheng, Chen Chao Jung
 | About the Director Tsai Ming Liang, born in Sarawak, East Malaysia, is a Taiwanese film director whose films have won major awards at major film festivals both at home and abroad. He is an internationally recognized film writer and one of the representative figures of Malaysian films in Taiwan, and has won many important awards at the three major international film festivals in Europe, and has been shortlisted for the Venice Film Festival for four times, the Cannes Film Festival and the Berlinale for three times, and has been shortlisted for the Best Director of the Golden Horse Awards for eight times. | |