"Actor: Lee Kang sheng"

• Goodbye, Dragon Inn | Blu Ray | (23/11/2020) from £19.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In Taipei City, a cavernous old picture palace is about to close its doors forever. A meagre audience, the remaining few staff, and perhaps even a ghost or two, watch King Hu's wuxia classic Dragon Inn - each haunted by memories and desires evoked by cinema itself. An exquisite, wryly funny and tender tribute to the experience of movie-going, Tsai Ming-Liang's poignant love letter to cinema is one of the most beguiling and beloved dramas of modern times and is now widely regarded as a classic. Presented here in a new 4K restoration, the film is more ravishing and hypnotic than ever. BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Bú sàn, 2003) presented from a brand new 4K restoration of the film. A new and exclusive filmed interview with director Tsai Ming-Liang. Madam Butterfly (2009, 36 mins): world home-video premiere of Tsai s remarkable modern-day interpretation of the classic story. Booklet featuring new essays by curator and critic Tony Rayns, plus a personal appreciation by filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul. New and improved English subtitle translation. Original soundtrack in 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio and 2.0 Stereo LPCM (24-bit) World premiere on Blu-ray. Region free Blu-ray (A/B/C)

• I Don't Want To Sleep Alone | DVD | (11/02/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Shooting for the first time in Malaysia after seven features set primarily in Tapei director Tsai Ming-Liang returns to his birthplace with a film unlike any of his prior works. Different in texture mood and feel and featuring a cast of multicultural and multi lingual characters the vivid crowded neon lit streets of Kuala Lumpur come alive as only master director Tsai Ming Liang can capture... After being robbed attacked one night in Kuala Lumpur Hsiao Kang (Lee Kang Sheng) a homeless Chinese man is rescued and taken in by some itinerant workers. One of them Rawang lets him sleep beside him on an old mattress that he found on the street. Later when Chyi a waitress at a coffee shop meets Hsiao Kang she is filled with lustful desire. As Hsiao Kang slowly recovers he finds himself caught between Rawang and Chyi - as well as Chyi's female boss. Meanwhile a heavy haze descends on the city. These men and women and the old mattress lose their way in the haze but find one another...

• The Wayward Cloud | DVD | (11/02/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Taiwan's official contender for Oscar nomination The Wayward Cloud is an outrageous blend of sex comedy and MGM style musical extravaganza from the internationally acclaimed auter Tsai Ming Liang. Daring controversial and very funny... Taiwan is beset by a terrible water shortage. TV stations are advising the population to economise drastically and to drink watermelon juice. But as always people are finding their own solutions to the drought. Shiang-Chyi secretly fills discarded bottles in public toilets while Hsiao-Kang takes midnight baths in rooftop storage tanks. They drift like clouds never touching. Survival is hard but lonliness is impossible to bear. Shiang-Chyi finds a watermelon and on the same day encounters Hsiao-Kang. She remembers buying a watch from him when he worked as a street vendor. He's a porno actor now but she doesn't know that yet...