synopsis
The seventh walking film was commissioned by the Hong Kong International Film Festival. It follows a chance encounter between a monk in red robes, played by Lee Kang-sheng, and the well-known Japanese actor Masanobu Ando in a public bathhouse and capsule hotel. This intimate double portrait explores the inner coexistence and transience of night-time Tokyo and the restless human mind.
biography
Tsai Ming-liang (b. 1957) is from Malaysia and lives and works in Taiwan. Together with Ang Lee and Hou Hsiao-hsien, he is a leading representative of Taiwanese New Wave cinema. His work bears the hallmarks of slow cinema, conceptual art, and performance art, and deals with themes of loneliness, time, and memory. His second feature film,
Vive L'Amour (1994), won the Golden Lion at Venice, while
The River (1997) won the Golden Bear at Berlinale, where
The Wayward Cloud (2005) also competed.
film details
| director: | Tsai Ming-Liang |
| cast: | Kang-Sheng Lee, Masanobu Ando |
| producer: | Yi-Hsuen Chen |
| photography: | Pen-Jung Liao |
| editing: | Jen-Ching Lei |
| associate producer: | Yun-Lin Wang |
| Line Producer: | Naohito Inaba, Katsuichi Sawai |
Film at festival
| premiere type: | Czech Premiere |
| festival edition: | 2025 |
| section: | Special Event |
| language: | No Dialogue |
| subtitles: | No Subtitles |
| colour: | Colour |
Info
| director: | Tsai Ming-Liang |
| original title: | 無無眠 |
| country: | Taiwan, Hong Kong |
| year: | 2015 |
| running time: | 35 min. |
