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Audio Format: DD 2.0 Stereo Video Format: Widescreen 1.85:1 (Anamorphic) Languages: Mandarin Subtitles: English, Chinese (T) Region Code: 3 Year Made: 2005 Running Time: 113
 Films by the renowned Taiwanese director Tsai Ming Liang often convey a deep, heartfelt, humane, and most of the time erotic emotion. His latest feature The Wayward Cloud, controversial for the eroticism it encompasses, picks up where What Time is it There? left off. The film returns again to the bizarre misadventures of Hsiao-Kang (Lee Kang Sheng), who appears in almost every movie by Tsai.
Hsiao-Kang has retired from his watch sales position in What Time is it There? to pursue a part-time career in the pornography industry as an actor, but finding it difficult to fulfill his desires and compensate for his loneliness...
Unlike all of Tsai's previous films where water seems flooding all over the place, The Wayward Cloud is set in the midst of a drought where strangely, the government is promoting watermelon juice as a substitute to water. Tsai's previous obsession with water as a symbolic reference to sexual activities becomes more impassioned when substituted for watermelon juice. The film builds upon Tsai's usual preoccupations using interaction, eroticism, alienation, minimal dialogue, and voyeurism to create the film. Musical vignettes of classical Taiwanese songs have established an imaginative dimension for the film.
 The Wayward Cloud was recently awarded the Silver Bear, the FIPRESCI and the Alfred Bauer Award at the 2005 Berlin Film Festival.
In an age of severe water shortage, Shiang-Chyi picks up empty bottles and steals water from the public toilets. Hsiao-Kang, a porn actor, baths with the little water stolen from the storage tank. While the physical need is contented, the desperate desire of love is unsatisfied. One day, Shiang-Chyi meets Hsiao-Kang, who has sold a watch to her before. They fall in love, but have no idea what each other do.When two pieces of cloud meet, what will they transform?
Special Features:
- Theatrical Trailer
- Photo Gallery
- Cast & Crew
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