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I Don’t Want To Sleep Alone (15)

• Consumer Advice: Contains moderate sex
• Run time: 1 hour 58 mins

• Genre: Drama
• Release date: 16th November 2007

• Starring: Lee Kang Sheng, Chen Shiang Chyi, Norman Bin Atun
• Directed by: Tsai Ming-Liang

• Distributor: Axiom Films

Plot Synopsis

Shooting in smog-bound Kuala Lumpur, Tsai casts Lee Kang-Sheng as two characters, one of whom is probably dreaming the other. The dreamer is a man in a coma, the beloved son of a coffee-shop owner, the dreamed is Kang, a visitor to the city, who is robbed, beaten and left for dead.

Kang is rescued by Rawang, a Bangladeshi worker who lets him sleep beside him on an old mattress that he had found on the street. Later, when Chyi, a waitress at a coffee-shop, meets Kang, she is filled with lustful desire. As Kang slowly recovers, he finds himself caught between Rawang and Chyi – as well as Chyi’s female boss. Meanwhile, a heavy haze of humidity descends on the city. These men and women and the old mattress lose their way in the haze but find one another…