In the final days of the year 1999, almost everyone in Taiwan has died from a strange plague that ravished the island. As rain pours down relentlessly, a single man is stuck with an unfinished plumbing job and a hole in his floor. This results in a very odd relationship with the woman who lives below him.
Direction
Tsai's static long takes force you to feel time.
Production
The flooded apartment complex is a drowned world.
Cinematography
Sickly green fluorescents that never dry out.
Director
Tsai Ming-liang
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The plague and millennial panic directly channel Taiwan's Y2K anxieties and urban isolation in rapidly developing Taipei.
Lee Kang-sheng and Yang Kuei-mei appear in nearly every Tsai film together—their wordless chemistry spans decades.
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