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Made for Taiwan’s Public Television Service, this co-production of the Department of Health and the Taiwan Foundation for Rare Diseases is a heartfelt drama about a schoolboy whose medical disorder requires him to take a medicine that causes his body to produce a terrible stench. As he struggles with rejection from his peers, his mother (Tsai regular Lu Yi-ching) tries to care for him while also bringing him unwanted attention through her public activism on his behalf.

Tsai co-directed this telefilm with his muse and collaborator Lee Kang-sheng – their sole credited directorial partnership. Although a more straightforward melodrama than many of his other works, My Stinking Kid retains the director’s patient gaze, wry humour and artful compositions.