Boys / Xiao hai (1991) dir. Tsai Ming-liang

One of Tsai’s last and most successful television films, Boys also marks Lee Kang-sheng’s acting debut. A slice-of-life tale of a teenager whose attempts to blackmail a younger student goes strangely awry, Boys is a key transitional work from Tsai’s early career that points directly towards the stylistic and narrative nuance of Rebels of the Neon God.