After winning three awards at the closing ceremony of the Berlin Film Festival on Saturday, filmmaker Tsai Ming-liang (
Miao died Saturday evening of lymph cancer at Taipei's Veteran's Hospital (
The actor gained fame for his role as the villain in the martial-arts classic Dragon Inn (
Before dying, Miao wrote a note to his wife saying: "I will be strong. I'm always a tough guy," his wife Liu Mei-lin (
Miao's last film was Tsai's Goodbye Dragon Inn (不散). In the film, Miao sits in the movie theater watching himself in Dragon Inn. In the last scene he holds his grandson as he walks down the hallway of the theater in one of the most classic shots of all his movies.
Miao's original name is Miao Yen-lin (
Miao retired in 1987 and rejected numerous offers until Tsai convinced him to play the father in Rebels of the Neon God (
Off-screen, Miao was affectionately called Papa Miao (苗爸) or Uncle Miao (苗叔) by Tsai, who considered him a father not only in his films, but also in real life.
"I felt that he had silently given me a blessing from heaven, helping me to win the awards," Tsai said upon his arrival yesterday at CKS International Airport from Berlin.
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