#Yang Kuei-Mei

[beingharsh]

The Hole (1998), dir. Tsai Ming-liang

#the hole #tsai ming-liang #yang kuei-mei #film #film stills #filmedit #movies #movie stills #cinema #cinephile #my posts

[cinematicjourney]

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

#vive l'amour #tsai ming liang #yang kuei-mei #lee khang-sheng #chen chao-jung #films #movies #cinematography #screencaps

[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).

#filmafterfilm #ang lee #eat drink man woman #sihung lung #yang kuei-mei #wu chien lien #wang yu-wen #sylvia chang #huel-yi lin #winston chao #gua aleh #chen yu

[enterfilm]

BU SAN (Tsai Ming-liang, 2003)

#bu san #goodbye dragon inn #good bye dragon inn #tsai ming-liang #lee kang-sheng #chen shiang-chyi #kiyonobu mitamura #yang kuei-mei #jerry chan #miao tian #chun shih #lee yi-cheng #film #cine

[erstwhile-punk-guerito]

#the hole #yang kuei-mei #lee kang-sheng #tsai ming-liang #1998

[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. 

#Vive l'Amour #Tsai Ming-liang #Chen Chao-jung #Lee Kang-sheng #Yang Kuei-Mei

[pierppasolini]

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

#Chen Chao jung #Lee Kang sheng #Yang Kuei mei #Vive L'amour #Tsai Ming liang #my caps #my edits #*tsai

[haveyouseenthisromcom]

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

#movies #polls #eat drink man woman #sihung lung #kuei-mei yang #ang lee #drama #ended #result: unheard of

[nicolekaptan]

Eat Drink Man Woman (1994) dir. Ang Lee

#eat drink man woman #ang lee #wang yu wen #jacklyn wu #jacklyn wu chien lien #yang kuei mei

[tinyreviews]

Wow. What a great cut and fade to black at the end. Brilliant! This is a slice-of-life look into a Taiwanese family and their relationships. The last act morphs it into a rollercoaster of twists and emotions. The final scene seals its greatness. MUST WATCH!

Eat Drink Man Woman (Chinese: 飲食男女) is a 1994 Taiwanese comedy-drama film directed by Ang Lee, from a script co-written with James Schamus and Hui-Ling Wang. It stars Sihung Lung, Wang Yu-wen, Wu Chien-lien, and Yang Kuei-mei.

#eat drink man woman #ang lee #sihung lung #wang yu wen #wu chien lien #yang kuei mei #taiwan #comedy drama #must watch #1994

[agelessyears]

Eat Drink Man Woman (飲食男女) (Ang Lee, 1994)

#sihung lung #kuei-mei yang #chien-lien wu #yu-wen wang #winston chao #ah-leh gua #sylvia chang #jong lin #ang lee #james schamus #hui-ling wang #eat drink man woman #飲食男女 #father knows best #trilogy #taipei #taiwanese cinema #1990s #90s

[beingharsh]

Vive L'Amour (1994), dir. Tsai Ming-Liang

#vive l'amour #tsai ming-liang #yang kuei-mei #film #film stils #movies #movie stills #cinema #cinephile #my posts

[may8chan]

Double Vision -  Chen Kuo Fu 2002

#Double Vision #Shuang tong #Chen Kuo Fu #Tony Leung Ka Fai #Kuei Mei Yang #Leon Dai #Han Chang

[pacingmusings]

Seen in 2022:

Kuei-mei, a Woman (Chang Yi), 1986

#films #movies #stills #Kuei-mei a Woman #Chang Yi #Yang Hui-San #Lee Li-Chun #Taiwanese #1980s #seen in 2022

[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

[moxori]

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

#eat drink man woman #cinema #filmedits #filmedit #food #filmgifs #gifs #ang lee #chinese #movie #film #films #movies #daily #myedits #edits #fyeahmovies #favorite #lung sihung #yang kuei-mei #wu chien-lien #yu wen wang #winston chao