Tsai Ming-Liang has emerged as one of the most profound voices in world cinema. His work traverses a wide spectrum of mediums: art and video installations, street performances, theatre, painting, and, of course, cinema. Through a magnificent aesthetic devotion, his works investigate human passions and existence.
This two-disc Blu-ray Special Edition brings together two of his sublimely contemplative film works.
Days is Tsai Ming-Liang's sensuous meditation on solitude, delivered as a series of beautifully composed, delicately hued tableaux. The uneventful lives of two men unfold until they eventually cross paths, brought together out of loneliness and the need for intimacy.
Afternoon captures a wide-ranging and absorbing conversation between director Tsai and Lee Kang-Sheng, the actor, collaborator, friend and muse who has appeared in all of Tsai's films, as they reflect on their lives, careers, relationship and identity.
2-disc Blu-ray Special features:
• Days (Rìzi, 2020) / Afternoon (Na ri xia wu, 2015) presented from new digital transfers from original materials, approved by the director.
• Cover image by Tsai Ming-Liang.
• A filmed interview with Tsai Ming-Liang (2022).
• Wandering (2021): a short film by Tsai Ming-Liang.
• Tsai Ming-Liang in conversation with Tony Rayns at the East Asia Film Festival Ireland, 2019.
• Days Passed: Lee Kang-Sheng Through the Eyes of Tsai Ming-Liang (2020): a video essay by Michelle Cho.
• Teasers and Trailers.
• 5.1 DTS Audio option on Days.
• Booklet with a new essay by writer/curator So Mayer.
• UK premieres on Blu-ray.
• Region free Blu-rays (A/B/C)
Technical details:
• Running times: 127 minutes / 136 minutes
• Language: Mandarin
• Subtitles: English*
• Aspect Ratios: 1.85:1
• Colour
• Video: BD50 x 2 / 1080p / 24fps
• Audio: 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio & 2.0 Stereo LPCM
• Region A/B/C (Region Free)
