Stray Dogs / Journey to the West - 2-DVD Set ( Jiao you / Xi you )

Stray Dogs / Journey to the West - 2-DVD Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Jiao you / Xi you
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Venice Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
Chinese ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
194 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
2-DVD Set
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2013 - 2014 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
Taiwan ( India, Eastern Asia )

Directed By:
Ming-liang Tsai

Written By:
Ming-liang Tsai
Chen Yu Tung
Ch'eng-En Wu

Actors:
Kang-sheng Lee ..... Father
Kuei-Mei Yang ..... Woman
Yi-Ching Lu ..... Woman
Shiang-chyi Chen ..... Woman
Yi Cheng Lee ..... Yi Cheng - son
Yi Chieh Lee ..... Yi Chieh - daughter
Jin-kai Wu ..... Wang
Kang-sheng Lee ..... Monk
Denis Lavant ..... Dragon

Synopsis:

Stray Dogs (2013)
A father and his two children wander the margins of modern day Taipei, from the woods and rivers of the outskirts to the rain streaked streets of the city. By day the father scrapes out a meager income as a human billboard for luxury apartments, while his young son and daughter roam the supermarkets and malls surviving off free food samples. Each night the family takes shelter in an abandoned building. The father is strangely affected by a hypnotic mural adorning the wall of this makeshift home. On the day of the father's birthday the family is joined by a woman-might she be the key to unlocking the buried emotions that linger from the past?
Journey to the West (2014)
In 'Journey to the West,' helmer Tsai Ming-liang's perennial protagonist, Lee Kang-sheng, inches with excruciating slowness through Marseille's land- and cityscapes in a series of 14 magnificently composed shots. Garbed in a monk's red robe that makes him immediately discernible within the city's subdued palette, his barely moving presence turns the frame itself into narrative, with all passing figures in the tableau defined by their reactions to him. Like some ambulatory anachronism, his stillness conjures up an alternate space-time continuum, another dimension slowly unfolding from within the core of urban hubbub.

Stray Dogs (2013)
An alcoholic man and his two young children barely survive in Taipei. They cross path with a lonely grocery clerk who might help them make a better life.
Journey to the West (2014)
Tsai Ming-liang returns with this latest entry in his Walker series, in which his monk acquires an unexpected acolyte in the form of Denis Lavant as he makes his way through the streets of a sun-dappled Marseille.

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 23 September, 2015.

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