My New Friends

Synopsis

Tsai interrupted his pre-production for The River to make this pioneering documentary for Taiwan's nascent AIDS-awareness campaign. Ignoring instructions to 'play down the gay angle', he centres the film on his own very candid conversations with two HIV+ young men. Sadly the identities of the interviewees have to be concealed, and so the freewheeling camerawork focuses most often on Tsai himself; but the sense of rapport between the director and his 'new friends' is palpable and very moving, even to Western viewers already only too familiar with these issues.

Main Cast

Tsai Ming-liang

Himself

Age : 67 | Popularity : 30%

Lee Kang-sheng

Age : N/A | Popularity : 10%

Pearlly Chua

Age : N/A | Popularity : 30%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Tsai Ming-liang
Department	Role	Name

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