Cast & creator
Tsai Ming-liang
Best known for Golden Horse Awards, Three Piglets, Vive L'Amour
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.
Also known as: 蔡明亮, 차이밍량, Tsai Mingliang, Tsai Ming Liang, 蔡 明亮
131
film credits
4
television credits
28
1962–2026 · acting roles
6.3
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (135)
Showing 135 of 135 credits
Golden Horse Awards
Self
1962
Three Piglets
Self
2019
Vive L'Amour
Director
1994Vive L'Amour
Screenplay
1994
To Each His Own Cinema
Director
2007
Days
Director
2021Days
Executive Producer
2021Days
Writer
2021
Rebels of the Neon God
Director
1994Rebels of the Neon God
Screenplay
1994Parola (su una data)
2003
The Wayward Cloud
Writer
2005The Wayward Cloud
Director
2005
Mr. Kim Goes to the Cinema
Self
2026
Abiding Nowhere
Director
2024
Goodbye, Dragon Inn
Writer
2003Goodbye, Dragon Inn
Director
2003
What Time Is It There?
Director
2001What Time Is It There?
Screenplay
2001
French Cinema Mon Amour
Self
2015
Jean-Pierre Léaud: The Child of Cinema
Self - Filmmaker
2024
The River
Screenplay
1997The River
Director
1997
Dust
Director
2026
Aquarium
Director
2004
Visage
2009Visage
Director
2009Visage
Screenplay
2009Visage
Producer
2009Visage
Idea
2009Visage
Story
2009Visage
Script
2009Visage
Writer
2009
The Hole
Screenplay
1998The Hole
Director
1998
Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema
Self
2014
Stray Dogs
Director
2014Stray Dogs
Writer
2014Stray Dogs
Art Direction
2014
Mother
Presenter
2022
Night Journey
Screenplay
2025Night Journey
Editor
2025Night Journey
Director
2025
Back Home
Director
2025
Yang ± Yin: Gender in Chinese Cinema
Self
1998
Welcome to São Paulo
Director
2004
Taipei 24H
2009
Single Belief
Producer
2016
Transformation
Director
2012
No No Sleep
Director
2015
The Game They Call Sex
Writer
1987
Wandering
2021Wandering
Director
2021
Help Me, Eros
Art Direction
2007Help Me, Eros
Producer
2007
Afternoon
Self
2015Afternoon
Director
2015
Where Do You Stand, Tsai Ming-liang?
2022Where Do You Stand, Tsai Ming-liang?
Director
2022Where Do You Stand, Tsai Ming-liang?
Director of Photography
2022
I Don't Want to Sleep Alone
Director of Photography
2006I Don't Want to Sleep Alone
Director
2006I Don't Want to Sleep Alone
Writer
2006
Sleeping on Dark Waters
2008Sleeping on Dark Waters
Director
2008
seascape
Himself
Flowers in the Mirror, Moon in the Water
Self as the film director of Visage
2009
The Ozu Diaries
Self
2025
Light
Director
2018
Spring Daddy
Writer
1985
Letters from the South
Director
2013Letters from the South
Screenplay
2013
Li-hsiang’s Love Line
Director
1990Li-hsiang’s Love Line
Writer
1990
All the Corners of the World
Director
1989All the Corners of the World
Writer
1989
Léaud l'unique
Self - filmmaker
2001
The Moon and the Tree
Director
2021
Madame Butterfly
Director of Photography
2009Madame Butterfly
Writer
2009Madame Butterfly
Director
2009Madame Butterfly
Cinematography
2009
Your Face
Self
2018Your Face
Director
2018Your Face
Producer
2018
Where
Director
2022
Diamond Sutra
Director
2012Diamond Sutra
Writer
2012
Stray Dogs at the Museum
Producer
The Deserted
Director
2018
Beautiful 2012
Director
2012
Journey to the West
Director
2014Journey to the West
Adaptation
2014
Sleepwalk
Writer
2012Sleepwalk
Director
2012Remembrance
Client
2009
Beautiful 2015
Director
2015
Run Away
Writer
1985
Our Time, Our Story
Self
2002
My New Friends
Himself
1995My New Friends
Director
1995
No Form
Director
2012No Form
Screenplay
2012
The Skywalk Is Gone
Director
2003The Skywalk Is Gone
Screenplay
2003
It's a Dream
Director
2007It's a Dream
Writer
2007
Sand
Screenplay
2018Sand
Director
2018
Boys
Director
1991Boys
Writer
1991
Xining Public Housing
Director
2024
Past Present
Self
2013
Moonlight in the River
Narrator
2003Moonlight in the River
Director
2003
Give Me a Home
Director
1991Give Me a Home
Writer
1991
Teenage Fugitive
Screenplay
1984Making-of du tournage de Tsai Ming-Liang au Centre Pompidou
2022
The Night
Director
2021The Night
Writer
2021The Night
Director of Photography
2021
Yilan
Director
2023The Pursuit of a Cinematic Dream - Tsai Ming-Liang
Tsai Ming-liang
2022
My Stinking Kid
Director
2004
Strolling Around
Director
2023
Walker
Director
2012Walker
Writer
2012Walker
Director of Photography
2012
A Conversation with God
Director
2001
Autumn Days
Director
2016
Looking for Tsai
Himself
2002
Wiara
Self
2018
The Missing
Executive Producer
2003The Moon is Gone
Director
2001