Taiwanese New Wave Master Tsai Ming-Liang Discusses His Film ‘Days’ & Ideas On “Art Museum Cinema” [Interview]
No artist captures the aimless pain of alienation quite like Tsai Ming-liang. His first feature, 1992’s “Rebels of the Neon God,” can almost be described as “The 400 Blows,” by way of “Taipei Story,” (only stranger) Tsai being quite possibly the third most influential director of Taiwan’s second New Wave movement, alongside Edward Yang and Hou Hsiao-hsien.