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No No Sleep
No No Sleep
7.3
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1,378 Ratings

NO NO SLEEP

Wu Wu Mian

Directed by Tsai Ming-liang
Taiwan, Hong Kong, 2015
Short, Avant-Garde

Synopsis

In the wee hours of winter a night train travels through a sleepless city. This is a panorama of a Buddhist monk’s journey through Tokyo at night. He also stops at a bath-house in a capsule hotel, where he makes a brief encounter.

Synopsis

In the wee hours of winter a night train travels through a sleepless city. This is a panorama of a Buddhist monk’s journey through Tokyo at night. He also stops at a bath-house in a capsule hotel, where he makes a brief encounter.

Our take

Breaking away from previous installments of his stark, serene Walker series, No No Sleep reacquaints us with the moving body of Lee Kang-sheng’s monk, but shifts its setting to downtown Tokyo. Another luminous expression of Tsai Ming-liang’s increasingly refined filmmaking.