The Hole (洞) 25 years old

A search for intimacy in a world of disaster.

The Hole

In the final days of the year 1999, almost everyone in Taiwan has died from a strange plague that ravished the island. Supposedly spread by cockroaches, the disease sends its victims into a psychosis where they act like the insects and eventually die. The two protagonists live In a crumbling apartment building right above and below each other. The woman is on the lower floor, and the pipes above her apartment are leaking fiercely, threatening to destroy her food supply, not to mention her sanity. She calls a plumber to go check it out, and he accidentally pokes a hole through the floor of the man's apartment. The two have never met before, and they come into contact through the hole.

Credits

The Hole Cast

Name Character
Yang Kuei-mei She was 39, now 64 years old as The Woman Downstairs
Lin Kun-huei as The Kid
Hui-Chin Lin as A Neighbor
Lee Kang-sheng He was 29, now 55 years old as The Man Upstairs

The Hole Crew

Name Department
Feng-Chyt Jiang as Associate Producer. Production
Liao Pen-Jung as Director of Photography. He was 49 (now 75) years old Camera
Ju-kuan Hsiao as Editor. Editing
Tsai Ming-liang as Director. He was 40 (now 66) years old Directing
Tsai Ming-liang as Screenplay. He was 40 (now 66) years old Writing
Peggy Chiao as Producer. She was 45 (now 71) years old Production
Pi-ying Yang as Screenplay. Writing
Grace Chang as Original Music Composer. She was 65 (now 91) years old Sound
The Hole poster
The Hole (25 years)

A search for intimacy in a world of disaster.

  • Release day: Wednesday, March 24, 1999
  • Runtime: 95 minutes