No No Sleep
| No No Sleep 无无眠 | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Tsai Ming-liang |
| Produced by | David Cao |
| Starring | Masanobu Andô Lee Kang-sheng |
| Cinematography | Pen-Jung Liao |
| Edited by | Chen-Ching Lei |
Production company | Youku.com (China) |
| Distributed by | Youku.com (China) |
Release dates |
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Running time | 34 minutes |
| Country | China/Taiwan/Hong Kong |
| Language | None |
No No Sleep (Chinese: 无无眠; pinyin: Wu wu mian) is an award-winning 2015 mainland China—Taiwan—Hong Kong short film by Taiwanese film director Tsai Ming-liang, winning Best Director at the Taipei Film Awards in 2015.[1][2] It features Taiwanese actor Lee Kang-sheng and Japanese actor Masanobu Andô, and includes non-sexual full-frontal male nudity.
Plot
No No Sleep consists of a series of scenes filmed with a static camera and without dialogue in a variety of urban locations, such as train tracks, a subway train, a bath-house and a sleep chamber.[3][4][5]
Films by the same director
- Rebels of the Neon God (1992)
- Vive L'Amour (1994)
- The River (1997)
- The Hole (1998)
- What Time Is It There? (2001)
- The Skywalk Is Gone (2002)
- Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003)
- The Wayward Cloud (2005)
- I Don't Want to Sleep Alone (2006)
- To Each His Own Cinema (2007)
- Face (2009)
- Stray Dogs (2013)
- Journey to the West (2014)
References
- ^ Ivan Teo (20 July 2015). "'Thanatos, Drunk 醉.生梦死' wins big at Taipei Film Festival". Grate News. Retrieved 6 May 2018.
- ^ Patrick Frater (18 July 2015). "Thanatos, Drunk' Soaks Up Top Awards at Taipei Film Festival". Variety. Retrieved 6 May 2018.
- ^ Nadin Mai (17 May 2015). "No No Sleep – Tsai Ming-liang (2015)". The Art(s) of Slow Cinema. Retrieved 6 May 2018.
- ^ Nick Newman (19 May 2015). "Watch Tsai Ming-liang's Latest Project 'No No Sleep'". The Film Stage. Retrieved 6 May 2018.
- ^ Martin Teller (23 May 2015). "No No Sleep". MartinTeller. Retrieved 6 May 2018.
See also
External links
- China version (Censored)
- International version (Uncensored)