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After discovering Lee Kang-sheng loitering outside a videogame arcade in 1989, Tsai Ming-liang was immediately taken with the unique presence of the person who would become his most intimate artistic collaborator. Here, in their first feature film partnership — after working together on Tsai's early telefilms — Lee stars as Hsiao-kang, a mysterious dropout who begins to follow a pair of teenage petty thieves after they vandalise his father's taxi. An enthralling portrait of urban ennui and adolescent enervation, Rebels of the Neon God marked the emergence of a major new voice in Taiwanese cinema.