Tsai Ming-liang (born 1957) is one of the most celebrated "Second New Wave" film directors of Taiwanese Cinema, along with earlier contemporaries as Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Edward Yang. His films have been acclaimed world-wide and have won numerous festival awards. He is openly gay. Tsai is a Chinese born in Malaysia, and lived there "in a very simple small village" for 20 years after which he moved to Taipei. This, he says, had "a huge impact on [his] mind and psyche", … Wikipedia
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Along with countrymen Hou Hsiao-hsien ( Flowers Of Shanghai ) and Edward Yang ( Yi Yi ), director Tsai Ming-Liang has brought Taiwan to the forefront of international cinema. avclub.com/content/node/22680
