Boys, Xiao hai (1991) dir. Tsai Ming liang

One of Tsai s last and most successful television films, Boys also marks Lee Kangsheng s acting debut. A sliceoflife 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.