The Skywalk Is Gone

The Skywalk Is Gone (2003)

天橋不見了

A young woman wandering around meets a young man going to a casting call for a pornographic film.

Date of release
2003-04-25
TMDB
5.9 / 10 (35)
Runtime
22m
Genres
Comedy, Drama
Director
Tsai Ming-liang

Casting

Interesting facts

The Skywalk is Gone is a 2002 Taiwanese short film directed by Tsai Ming-liang and starring Chen Shiang-chyi and Lee Kang-sheng.

Background

Actors Chen Shiang-chyi and Lee Kang-sheng both reprised their roles from Tsai Ming-liang's previous film What Time Is It There? Their characters would also appear in Tsai's next film, The Wayward Cloud.

One of the principal locations of What Time Is It There? was the skywalk in front of the New Railway Station. The skywalk was torn down after shooting the film, and this short is based on that fact. Director Tsai Ming-liang later joked that "It seems that many places that I shot for my films have vanished. This is kind of worrying!"

A major theme of this film is the urbanization of Taipei. The song playing at the end of it is called "Nanping Bell".

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