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Film Review - 'Rebels of the Neon God'

He's widely considered by critics as one of the top directors in the world, but Taiwan-based Malaysian Chinese auteur Tsai Ming-liang's works are hardly rarefied creations. And while he's something of a minimalist, his movies do not have the antiseptic, static, arid feel of so many films classed under that banner.

Somber, surly, silent youth played by Lee Kang-sheng in Tsai Ming-liang's 1992 "Rebels of the Neon God," just released in the U.S. (Big World Pictures)
Somber, surly, silent youth played by Lee Kang-sheng in Tsai Ming-liang's 1992 "Rebels of the Neon God," just released in the U.S. (Big World Pictures)Read more
    by Tirdad Derakhshani, Inquirer Staff Writer
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