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(Synopsis)
A Japanese tourist takes refuge from a rainstorm inside a once-popular movie theater, a decrepit old barn of a cinema that is screening a martial arts classic, King Hu's 1966 "Dragon Inn." Even with the rain bucketing down outside, it doesn't pull much of an audience -- and some of those who have turned up are less interested in the movie than in the possibility of meeting a stranger in the dark.
Unlike all of Tsai's previous films where water seems flooding all over the place, The Wayward Cloud is set in the midst of a drought where strangely, the government is promoting watermelon juice as a substitute to water. Tsai's previous obsession with water as a symbolic reference to sexual activities becomes more impassioned when substituted for watermelon juice. The film builds upon Tsai's usual preoccupations using interaction, eroticism, alienation, minimal dialogue, and voyeurism to create the film.
Director
Tsai Ming-liang
Cast
Chen Chao-jung
Chen Shiang-chyi
Chun Shih
Kiyonobu Mitamura
Lee Kang-sheng
Miao Tien
Yang Kuei-Mei
Publisher : AVV
Audio : Mandarin (Taiwanese / Dolby Digital 5.1)
Video : WideScreen
Subtitles : Chinese/English
Running Time : 80mins
Release Year : 2003
Rating : CATIII
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