The Moon is Gone

Tsai Mingliang directed in 2001 this episode of the popular Taiwanese TV children show Fruit Pie 水果冰淇淋 although it rarely appears on Tsais filmographies and the director himself is not particularly proud of it it was a command by the PBS perhaps only a divertimento However we find in it lots of elements of Tsais universe including Lee Kangsheng playing the dog which eats the moon Note how the title 月亮不見了 echoes that of the short film The Skywalk is Gone 天橋不見了 shot a year later The story is set during the Moon Festival with many references to this festivity and its mythology