Three best friends who are barely getting by as fishermen seek their fate in 1930s Shanghai. Upon arriving in the bustling city, the naïve trio gradually find their innocence corrupted as they fall into the deepest depths of the criminal underworld.

film

1992 film by Tsai Ming-liang

2001 film by Tsai Ming-liang

A young man develops severe neck pain after swimming in a polluted river for a movie shoot, but nobody can provide him any relief.

Three lonely young denizens of Taipei unknowingly share an apartment: May, a real estate agent who uses it for her sexual affairs; Ah-jung, her current lover; and Hsiao-kang, who's stolen the key and uses the apartment as a retreat.