Animals
The animal that Ximen Nao is reincarnated into after his life as a donkey.
What is an ox?
How Tao spends more time with Daole when he goes back to Shanghai.
What is by taking the train instead of a plane?
It is what is mined in both A Touch of Sin and Mountains May Depart.
What is coal?
The characters in Tsai Ming-Liang’s The Hole are frequently seen eating this alone in their apartments.
In this movie, a kidnapped girl urinates in front of a kidnapper in the open air.
What is Suzhou River?
It is because of Americans dumping this item into the Han river that the monster in the Host is born.
What is formaldehyde?
Tony Leung ends the film Happy Together alone here.
What is on a train (the Metro) in Taipei?
In Wong Kar-wai’s Happy Together, the two lovers want to visit Iguazu falls because of this object.
What is a (waterfall) lamp?
The ticket seller saves half of this to give to the cinema projector in Goodbye Dragon Inn.
What is a steamed (peach) bun?
A man enters the bathroom to use a urinal and stands next to a man who smokes while standing in front of a urinal. Other men come in to use the urinals too and stand for excruciatingly long times in front of the urinal.
What is Goodbye Dragon Inn?
Standing in his bathroom naked, he sees that his cat is looking at him and feels inspired to write an essay about the Animal that therefore he is.
Who is Jacques Derrida?
This song title gives travel directions at the beginning and the end of Mountains May Depart.
What is “Go West”?
In the movie still life, people compare the landscape in front of them with its representation on this object.
What is (paper) money?
Jenn is visited by the two princess spirits and shares her longkong with them. They were given to her by this person.
The woman downstairs complains about the plumbing from his apartment and asks him not to use the toilet, so he urinates in the sink.
In Stephen Chow’s The Mermaid, the mermaid Shan is pursued by her friend who wants her to kill the real estate developer who she has fallen in love with. He is not a merman but an anthropomorphic hybrid of this creature.
What is an octopus?
What is the elevator?
A schoolhouse is repurposed into a hospital in these two works from this semester.
What are Cemetery of Splendour and Dream of Ding Village?
These four items function as chapter titles in the movie Still Life by Jia Zhangke.
What are cigarettes, liquor, tea, candy.
We are in a jungle and a man is squatting with his back to us and his bottom exposed. We wait as the seconds pass by and contemplate our animal selves.
What is Cemetery of Splendour?
The three animal figurines that Jenn offers the two princesses at the temple shrine.
What are a cheetah, a gibbon, and a tiger?
This film opens with a slow pan across a range of faces on a ferry boat on the Yangtze River.
What is Still Life?
This is the frequent location of Jia Zhangke’s films, and is his hometown.
What is Fenyang?
What is sweet and sour pork?
The man has attacked her and tied her up to demand his freedom. After he eventually lets her go, she silently gets up and hobbles outside. He hears her urinating in the sand.
What is the Woman in the Dunes?