#yang kuei-mei

[princesspierpaolo]

goodbye, dragon inn (2003) dir. tsai ming-liang

[laserpinksteam]

Film after film: Eat Drink Man Woman (dir. Ang Lee, 1994)

A sprawling family drama about a widowed and soon-to-retire father with three adult daughters, neither of whom is married. Lee went on to direct Sense and Sensibility, which is more or less the same story (minus food, plus horses).

[gael-garcia]

Vive l'amour (1994), dir. Tsai Ming-liang

[pierppasolini]

The Wayward Cloud (2005) // dir. Tsai Ming-liang

[cptrs]

[haveyouseenthisromcom]

Mod note: The film is also called Yin shi nan nu.

[theersatzcowboy]

Goodbye, Dragon Inn / 不散 (2003)

Tsai Ming-liang's elegiac masterpiece follows the final showing—of Taiwanese wuxia classic Dragon Inn (1967)—at a failing Taipei movie house, where ghosts, gays, and by-gone legends mingle, all haunting the theater in its final moments of life.

Director: Tsai Ming-liang

Cinematographer: Pen-Jung Liao

Starring: Lee Kang-sheng, Chen Shiang-chyi, Kiyonobu Mitamura, Jun Shih, Miao Tien, Chen Chao-jung, and Yang Kuei-mei

[teook]

愛情萬歲 was so good but im always so exhausted from traveling around. nice that there were a lot of old people and i genuinely forgot how funny the movie was and for like the first 20 minutes these 2 old ladies sat near me and kept talking and started laughing when the first sex scene came up like bro omg let me ponder about yang kuei mei sucking nipples!!! and i forgot how gorgeous all of her fits are

[dear-indies]

Hi, Cat! I hope you’re having a nice day. Could I please fc help? I’m looking for someone who could play an older version of Stephanie Hsu. Thank you!

Chiao Chiao (1943) Taiwanese.

Elaine Jin (1954) Taiwanese.

Lu Yi-ching (1958) Taiwanese.

Pauline Lan (1958) Taiwanese.

Yang Kuei-mei (1959) Taiwanese.

Gigi Leung (1976) Taiwanese.

Trying to find darker skinned Taiwanese actresses was SO hard, sadly these are the closest I could find. In unedited/some photos they look similar but lightning is also harrrrrrrd. 💌

[goofstep]

the hole probably my least favorite tsai ming-liang ive seen yet. its sort of a musical in that there are exactly 5 songs that are all very distracting and seem barely related to any feeling that we’ve been sitting in. outside of them though its got the typical breathing room that ive been enjoying and yang kuei-mei’s performance is like just as stunning as in vive l’amour. lee kang-sheng isnt bad necessarily but i found him a little more all over the place amd unreadable than in past roles

[cinematicjourney]

Vive L'Amour (1994) | dir. Tsai Ming-liang

[moxori]

Eat Drink Man Woman (1994) ‘飲食男女’ by Ang Lee

[pierppasolini]

Vive L’Amour (1994) // dir. Tsai Ming-liang

[flauntheimperfection]

The Hole (1998) dir. Tsai Ming-Liang

[enterfilm]

BU SAN (Tsai Ming-liang, 2003)

[byneddiedingo]

Vive l’Amour (Tsai Ming-liang, 1994)

Cast: Chen Chao-jung, Lee Kang-sheng, Yang Kuei-Mei. Screenplay: Tsai Ming-liang, Tsai Yi-chun, Yang Pi-ying. Cinematography: Liao Pen-Jung, Lin Ming-Kuo. Production design: Lee Pao-Lin. Film editing: Sung Shia-cheng.

Vive l’Amour, the ironic title of Tsai Ming-liang's film, brings to mind another French phrase: comédie larmoyante. And not just because it ends with a very long close-up of the character May Lin (Yang Kuei-Mei) sobbing bitterly, but because the film is its own kind of tearful comedy, one with roots in the genre of farce, in which characters occupy a common space but somehow avoid making connection with one another. It's a story about existential loneliness. Ah-jung (Chen Chao-jung) is making his rounds in the gloomy job of funerary urn salesman when he finds a key left in the lock of a vacant luxury apartment. He sneaks in at night planning to commit suicide, but only makes a half-hearted attempt at cutting his wrist with a Swiss army knife and bandages himself up. Then he realizes that he's not alone in the large apartment when he hears a couple having sex in another room. They are May Lin, the real estate agent supposed to be showing the apartment to clients, and Hsiao-kang (Lee Kang-sheng), who have picked each other up in a restaurant. Hsiao-kang, who illegally sells women's dresses on the street, steals her key to the apartment and moves in. Eventually, Ah-jung and Hsiao-kang encounter each other and become friends. But their friendship is tested when May Lin and Hsiao-kang return to the apartment, and Ah-jung, hearing them enter, hides under the bed. As the couple have sex, Ah-jung masturbates below them. After May Lin leaves, Ah-jung gets in bed with the sleeping Hsiao-kang and stares at him longingly, then kisses him. May LIn, having discovered that her car won't start, sets out to walk home but winds up weeping on a park bench. The story of the three is intercut with glimpses of their lonely lives: May Lin waiting patiently for clients that don't show, Ah-jung distributing leaflets advertising his urns, Hsiao-kang trying on one of the dresses he peddles. There's no music score and very little expository dialogue, but the sound track is alive, from the noise of love-making Ah-jung hears from another room to the pock-pock-pock of May Lin's heels as she sets out on her long walk homeward. We don't know why May Lin weeps, or what drives Ah-jung to consider suicide, but by showing the texture of their isolated lives, Tsai makes us intuit the causes.