No No Sleep (traditional Chinese: 無無眠; simplified Chinese: 无无眠; pinyin: Wu wu mian) is a 2015 mainland ChinaTaiwanHong Kong short film by Taiwanese film director Tsai Ming-liang, winning Best Director at the Taipei Film Awards in 2015.[1][2] It features Taiwanese actor Lee Kang-sheng and Japanese actor Masanobu Andō, and includes non-sexual full-frontal male nudity.

No No Sleep
無無眠
Directed byTsai Ming-liang
Produced byDavid Cao
StarringMasanobu Andō
Lee Kang-sheng
CinematographyPen-Jung Liao
Edited byChen-Ching Lei
Production
company
Youku.com (China)
Distributed byYouku.com (China)
Release date
  • 21 April 2015 (2015-04-21)
Running time
34 minutes
CountryChina/Taiwan/Hong Kong
LanguageNone

Plot

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No No Sleep consists of a series of scenes filmed with a static camera and without dialogue in a variety of urban locations, such as train tracks, a subway train, a bath-house and a sleep chamber.[3][4][5]

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References

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  1. Ivan Teo (20 July 2015). "'Thanatos, Drunk 醉.生梦死' wins big at Taipei Film Festival". Grate News. Archived from the original on July 20, 2015. Retrieved 6 May 2018.
  2. Patrick Frater (18 July 2015). "Thanatos, Drunk' Soaks Up Top Awards at Taipei Film Festival". Variety. Retrieved 6 May 2018.
  3. Nadin Mai (17 May 2015). "No No Sleep – Tsai Ming-liang (2015)". The Art(s) of Slow Cinema. Retrieved 6 May 2018.
  4. Nick Newman (19 May 2015). "Watch Tsai Ming-liang's Latest Project 'No No Sleep'". The Film Stage. Retrieved 6 May 2018.
  5. Martin Teller (23 May 2015). "No No Sleep". MartinTeller. Retrieved 6 May 2018.
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