Pearlly Chua

6.6

I Don't Want to Sleep Alone

Dec 02, 2006

I Don't Want to Sleep Alone

2006 118 min 41 vues

À Kuala Lumpur, Hsiao-kang est agressé et blessé par des escrocs. Il est recueilli par des ouvriers qui le transportent sur un vieux matelas. Hsiao-kang se lie avec l'un d'eux, lequel l'invite à dormir chez lui. Quelques jours plus tard, Hsiao-kang fait la rencontre de Shiang-chyi, une jeune serveuse qui tombe amoureuse de lui. Hsiao-kang se retrouve alors tiraillé entre Rawang son bienfaiteur et Shiang-chyi son admiratrice.

Drama

8

五月雪

Nov 17, 2023

五月雪

2023 116 min 1 vues

For 49 years, Ah Eng and Dou E were trapped in the "513" timeline. In 1969, post-election tensions gripped Kuala Lumpur when the Cantonese street opera "Snow in June" showcased Dou E, portrayed by the troupe master. Amid a riot, Ah Eng and her mother sought refuge with the troupe, losing contact with her brother and father. In 2018, Ah Eng returned to Kuala Lumpur and unexpectedly encountered "Dou E" at the cemetery.

Drama

6

蝴蝶夫人

Jul 10, 2009

蝴蝶夫人

2009 36 min 6 vues

Free interpretation of the myth. Tsai Ming-liang propels a woman neglected by her lover in the mob of the bus station of Kuala Lumpur.

Drama

6.2

如果还有明天

Sep 01, 2012

如果还有明天

2012 82 min 4 vues

If It’s Not Now, Then When? mostly takes place in an apartment inhabited by three members of a family (though never at the same time): mother Pearlly Chua (from Tsai Ming-liang’s I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone), daughter Tan Bee Hung and young son Kenny Gan. Their father seems recently to have died. The mother leaves early and returns late, out on long walks in the park with a lover whom the daughter and her best friend try to spy on. The daughter pecks away at a computer at work and has a desultory affair with her married boss, which he carries on between his business and family phone calls. And the son breaks into cars and “recycles” the electronics he finds.

Drama

1

狼牙的御女

Nov 14, 2022

狼牙的御女

2022 27 min 1 vues

1986, in a Malaysia-Thailand border village, a recently widowed Siamese woman still cooks her husband's favourite dish. After her son brings the husband's ancestral tablet home, the durian tree starts bearing its fruits while red spinach grows under the tree...

Drama

1

搖籃凡世

Oct 30, 2024

搖籃凡世

2024 117 min 1 vues

Set in a baby hatch where dedicated female social workers provide a safe haven for distressed women and vulnerable infants.

Drama

6.5

恨之入味

Nov 12, 2011

恨之入味

2011 93 min 2 vues

Mrs. Chew and her three daughters run a small but flourishing restaurant. Most of the customers come for the house specialty: Homemade Curry - cooked from an old family recipe. Nobody suspects that the special ingredient that turns Mrs Chew's curry from standard fare into a gourmet's delight is human flesh!

Thriller

6.6

Harum Malam

Oct 06, 2022

Harum Malam

2022 102 min 5 vues

A young apprentice healer tries to suppress his supernatural abilities so he can fit in with the other kids, but when a malicious spirit breaks out in his apartment, he decides to use his abilities while dark family secrets are revealed.

Horror

5.8

虎廠

May 21, 2010

虎廠

2010 84 min 6 vues

Ping Ping is 19 and wants to go to Japan to work in a car parts company. She's under the guardianship of her aunt, Madame Tien, who shuffles her between two jobs - working in a pig farm, and cleaning dishes in a rundown restaurant. Tien is also involved in a 'baby factory' scheme, pairing young women with migrant workers and then selling the babies for money. Both survive with each other in a love-hate symbiotic manner, until a truth about her aunt is revealed to Ping Ping.

Drama

7

榴莲忘返

Oct 24, 2014

榴莲忘返

2014 128 min 3 vues

When a rare earth plant is being built near a coastal town, its inhabitants fall into despair, fearful of its radioactive effects.

Drama

5.2

非常盜

Apr 11, 2019

非常盜

2019 101 min 4 vues

Unfolding the life of a taxi driver that uses his services as a front for extortion rackets and other criminal activities. When his hot-headed younger brother's impulsive behaviour lead the cops and triad to their doorstep. As the eldest, he stops at nothing to protect them all.

Crime

5.8

The Sleep Curse

Apr 17, 2017

The Sleep Curse

2017 102 min 54 vues

De 1941 à 1945, durant l'occupation de Hong Kong par le Japon, la collaboration d'un jeune traducteur avec l'ennemi fait que sa vie est maudite par une "femme de réconfort" forcée à devenir une esclave sexuelle, puis assassinée. 45 ans plus tard, les péchés de l'homme reviennent hanter son fils, un professeur spécialisé dans les troubles du sommeil...

Horror

6

殺-擊

Mar 10, 2019

殺-擊

2019 97 min 1 vues

Zhang, a middle aged man struggling with a dead end job as an insurance sales person, on the verge of divorce with his wife, losing custody of her daughter, and on top of all this he has to take care of his father who is suffering from Alzheimer's. Unknowingly Zhang is invited to join an underground fighting game for financial purposes, but eventually Zhang becomes hooked on the fights and turns professional.

Action

1

我新认识的朋友

Jan 01, 1995

我新认识的朋友

1995 56 min 1 vues

Tsai interrupted his pre-production for The River to make this pioneering documentary for Taiwan's nascent AIDS-awareness campaign. Ignoring instructions to 'play down the gay angle', he centres the film on his own very candid conversations with two HIV+ young men. Sadly the identities of the interviewees have to be concealed, and so the freewheeling camerawork focuses most often on Tsai himself; but the sense of rapport between the director and his 'new friends' is palpable and very moving, even to Western viewers already only too familiar with these issues.

Documentary

6.4

南巫

Apr 02, 2021

南巫

2021 105 min 9 vues

Cheong, a Chinese man, falls sick after a row with his neighbour. His wife Yan is desperately looking for a remedy to cure her husband. Throughout the journey, Yan endures strange encounters and unearthly experiences. Finally, Yan is convinced that she should seek help from the village shaman. Mysteries, legends and shamanism surround Yan with unknowns yet to be solved.

Fantasy

6

代

Aug 10, 2021

代

2021 10 min 1 vues

Discovering a severed bird that is missing its body, Ah Ger decides to make a mock body for the poor creature and give it a proper burial. Her intentions prompt an unexpected visit by the ghost of her late grandmother appearing in the form of the dead bird, urging Ah Ger to help find and care for her egg. Her actions caused her to be terribly misunderstood and punished by her mother.

1

Ah Ma (阿嬷)

Oct 27, 2024

Ah Ma (阿嬷)

2024 15 min 1 vues

An elderly Chinese woman living alone in a village prepares for the Qing Ming festival. The grief of losing her husband parallels the pain of missing her grandson who had left to work in the city. Her daily routine navigates a transitional loop of immediate changes and immense loneliness.

Drama