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Ming-liang Tsai (writer)
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18 March 2005 (Taiwan) more
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Hsiao-Kang, now working as an adult movie actor, meets Shiang-chyi once again. Meanwhile, the city of Taipei faces a water shortage that makes the sales of watermelons skyrocket. full summary | add synopsis
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5 wins & 4 nominations more
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Also Known As:
La saveur de la pastèque (France)
The Wayward Cloud (International: English title)
Un nuage au bord du ciel (France)
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Hong Kong:114 min | USA:112 min | Argentina:114 min
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Before making The Wayward Cloud, Tsai would often joke that if his film career continued to have financial difficulties he would be forced to direct pornography. more
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Ai de kai shi more

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13 out of 17 people found the following review useful.
love in the time of drought, 29 November 2005
9/10
Author: misterhcat from Australia

From the very inventive start to the wicked, tense climax, "Wayward Cloud" is an allegory of longing, frustration and tongue in cheek solutions. Deliciously slow at times, intercepts with frenetic musical scenes in Technicolor splendor, and contrasts with gritty-down-right-dirty voyeuristic insights into pornographic industry; this was the stuff Barney tried to create with 10 times the budget in his Cremaster Cycles (and none of the wit)

The use of 60's Chinese Pop, choreography with enough cheese to put any Madonna's clip to shame offered a break from the relentless heat and the hilarious sex scenes, their seemingly unconnectedness served to heightened the restless state of wander that the characters seem to float in.

In this drought, water isn't the only thing that's running scarce.

Water melons will never be seen in the same light!!!

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