Lee Kang-sheng

Born: 1968-10-12

Lee Kang-sheng (Chinese: 李康生; Pinyin: Lǐ Kāngshēng; b. 1968 in Taipei, Taiwan) is a Taiwanese actor, film director, and screenwriter. He has appeared in all of Tsai Ming-liang's theatrical feature films. Lee's own directorial efforts include The Missing (2003) and Help Me Eros (2007).


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To Each His Own Cinema

as (segment: It’s A Dream)
Released: 2007-10-31

Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema"...

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The Wayward Cloud

as Taiwanese Porn Actor
Released: 2005-05-19

Hsiao-Kang, now working as an adult movie actor, meets Shiang-chyi once again. Meanwhile, the...

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The Tenants Downstairs

as Guo Li
Released: 2016-06-23

A loafer inherits an apartment block and lets out the place to a group of tenants, including a...

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Rebels of the Neon God

as Hsiao-kang
Released: 1994-08-04

Defying his parents, disaffected youth Hsiao Kang drops out of the local cram school to head for...

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Vive L'Amour

as Hsiao-kang
Released: 1995-03-02

Three lonely young denizens of Taipei unknowingly share an apartment: May, a real estate agent...

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The Hole

as The Man Upstairs
Released: 1999-03-24

In the final days of the year 1999, almost everyone in Taiwan has died from a strange plague...

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Goodbye, Dragon Inn

as Projectionist
Released: 2003-12-12

On a dark and rainy night, a historic and regal Taipei cinema sees its final film: 1967 martial...

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The Rope Curse 2

as Huo-ge
Released: 2020-09-02

Jia-min, who was born sensitive to the paranormal, tries to summon "Yi-A-Gu" with two streamers....

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What Time Is It There?

as Hsiao-Kang
Released: 2001-09-26

A street vendor with a grim home-life forges a connection with a young woman on her way to Paris.

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The River

as Hsiao-Kang
Released: 1997-08-07

A young man develops severe neck pain after swimming in a polluted river for a movie shoot, but...

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I Don't Want to Sleep Alone

as Hsiao-Kang
Released: 2006-12-02

Rawang, an immigrant from Bangladesh living in awful conditions, takes pity on a Chinese man,...

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Stray Dogs

as Father
Released: 2014-02-21

An alcoholic man and his two young children barely survive in Taipei. They cross paths with a...

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Sashimi

as Chen-ming
Released: 2015-04-24

A Japanese porno actor, HIV positive, commits suicide. Natsumi, a popular porno actress who has...

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No No Sleep

as Monk
Released: 2015-04-21

In the wee hours of winter a night train travels through a sleepless city. This is a panorama of...

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Help Me, Eros

as Ah Jie
Released: 2007-09-04

Having lost all his money in the stock market, a depressed man falls in love with a woman over a...

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Come and Go

as Xiao Kang
Released: 2021-11-19

Tourists, foreigners and outcasts converge on the streets of Osaka in this sprawling ensemble...

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Face

as Kang / The Director
Released: 2009-10-02

Hsiao-Kang, a Taiwanese film director, travels to the Louvre in Paris, France, to shoot a film...

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Abiding Nowhere

as uncredited
Released: 2024-02-20

The walker with the shaved head and dressed in a red robe is barefoot. He walks slowly but...

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Days

as Kang
Released: 2021-05-21

Kang lives alone in a big house, Non in a small apartment in town. They meet, and then part,...

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Blue Sun Palace

as Cheung
Released: 2025-03-12

A sudden loss catalyzes an unlikely bond between two migrants in the Chinese community of...

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Hotel Iris

as uncredited
Released: 2022-02-18

Somewhere on the coast of Taiwan is Hotel Iris, a mouldering seaside establishment run by a cold...

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Journey to the West

as Monk
Released: 2014-04-24

In 2014, Tsai Ming-Liang was invited to make a film for the MarseilleFID, Marseille...

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Sweet Degeneration

as Chun-sheng
Released: 1997-01-01

With a singular voice that distinguishes him from his New Taiwan Cinema contemporaries, Lin...

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Black Ox

as uncredited
Released: 2024-11-08

In the Meiji Period, in the 19th century Japan, transitioning towards modernization, BLACK OX...

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Fantasy · World

as Tang Shicheng
Released: 2022-10-07

A cold, hard-nosed lawyer, Zhang, discovers that his past client, Tang, is involved in yet...

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Past Present

as Self
Released: 2013-10-04

A contemplative trip down memory lane with one of the leading voices of the Second New Wave of...

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Abyssal Spider

as Ship's Captain
Released: 2020-09-11

Rescue member Ajie and his companions rescued a reef tanker in the storm, but met the captain...

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Grit

as Chief Liu
Released: 2021-10-08

Croc is a young gangster who goes back to work for his former boss at a city councilor’s office...

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A Way We Go

as 阿輝
Released: 2002-04-06

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Lost in Forest

as Sheng
Released: 2023-01-13

Asheng, once a gang member of the Zhongshan District, was sent to jail for 12 years after saving...

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Sand

as Self
Released: 2018-04-28

In 2018, Tsai Ming-Liang was invited by the Northeast and Yilan Coast National Scenic Area...

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A Drifting Life

as Ku-cheng
Released: 1996-05-01

After his wife dies during childbirth, Ku-cheng leaves his children behind in their rural...

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The Skywalk Is Gone

as Hsiao-Kang
Released: 2002-10-08

A young woman wandering around meets a young man going to a casting call for a pornographic film.

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Beautiful 2012

as uncredited
Released: 2012-03-21

A collection of shorts by four East Asian directors: Ann Hui on a male-to-female sex change, Kim...

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Absence

as Han Jiangyu
Released: 2023-02-21

After ten years in prison, Han Jiangyu returns to Hainan Island. Housing construction is...

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Walker

as Monk
Released: 2012-09-08

A metaphor for mourning as much as it is a reminder to slow down, Tsai Ming-liang's stunningly...

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Your Face

as Self
Released: 2018-09-07

Composed of a series of portrait shots of mostly anonymous individuals, filmmaker Tsai...

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Everything Is Unknown

as Hua Qi
Released: 2023-09-01

While he was in Macau, Pan Yiming unexpectedly receives a will from his father. They haven't...

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Stranger Eyes

as Lao Wu
Released: 2024-11-14

After the mysterious disappearance of their baby daughter, a young couple receives strange...

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Ordinary Heroes

as Lee Siu Tung
Released: 1999-04-10

Ordinary Heroes is a narration about the life stories of an advocate, a prostitute, a social...

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Sonata of Wave

as Dongbin
Released: 2024-05-17

Dong Bin has opened a surfing shop by the sea where Xiao Fang started working. The young man,...

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Transformation

as Himself
Released: 2012-01-01

In order to recreate a photograph, two actors undergo a transformation.

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Afternoon

as Self
Released: 2015-09-12

Lush jungle and a building in ruins are the ideal stage for a film-confession that defies...

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Absence

as Han Jiangyu
Released: 2021-07-06

Short film directed by Lang Wu. In 2021, Absence was nominated for Best Short Film at the 74th...

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Wandering

as uncredited
Released: 2021-12-01

This short by Tsai Ming-liang, completed in 2021, was filmed at "the Dune" in Yilan, Taiwan,...

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My New Friends

as uncredited
Released: 1995-01-01

Tsai interrupted his pre-production for The River to make this pioneering documentary for...

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Boys

as uncredited
Released: 1991-04-10

A junior-high student bullies and blackmails a younger boy, then receives the same treatment at...

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Looking for Tsai

as Himself
Released: 2002-06-06

Human shortcomings in the pursuit of an idol. Two film school students travel to interview...

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The Wind Will Say

as uncredited
Released: 2022-10-07

Chen’s daughter is returning from the UK after her university graduation. On the weekend of her...

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Where

as Monk
Released: 2022-11-25

The ninth opus of his Walker Films series, which was shot at Centre Pompidou.

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The Deserted

as uncredited
Released: 2018-03-31

Tsai Ming-Liang, the artisan of cinematography approaches virtual reality, pushing the...

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Single Belief

as uncredited
Released: 2016-12-01

Ximending was once the trendiest area in Taipei, and it's also where Kang-sheng Lee's first film...

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Sleeping on Dark Waters

as uncredited
Released: 2008-01-01

A behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of Ming-liang Tsai’s I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone.

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Letters from the South

as Xiao Kang (segment "Walking on Water")
Released: 2013-10-06

Six filmmakers present six short films about the experiences of Chinese immigrants. Shot across...

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No Form

as uncredited
Released: 2012-07-05

In 2011, Tsai Ming-Liang staged a play, "Only You", for Taiwan's National Theater and Concert...

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Diamond Sutra

as uncredited
Released: 2012-09-07

In 2012, Taiwanese architects Michael Lin and Liao Wei-li invited Tsai Ming-Liang to create...

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One & Zero

as uncredited
Released: 2016-10-28

Tsai Ming-liang has been living in an abandoned house in the mountains since 2014. Around the...

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Autumn Days

as uncredited
Released: 2016-10-13

A documentary about Nogami Teruyo, who for nearly half a century stood by Akira Kurosawa as a...

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Sleepwalk

as uncredited
Released: 2012-08-27

A continuation of Tsai Ming-Liang's Walker series, featuring Lee Kang-Sheng as a barefoot monk...

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All the Corners of the World

as Ah-tong
Released: 1989-01-01

Mr and Mrs Chang live in Taipei's Hsi-Men-Ding (the city's entertainment/red light/nightlife...

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Sunny Doll

as uncredited
Released: 2000-12-30

Hsin-He, a high school sophomore who can get along just fine on her own, lives with her father....

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Le voyage en Occident

as Monk
Released: 2014-01-01

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Golden Horse Awards

as Self
First aired: 1962-10-31

The Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards (Chinese: 台北金馬影展; pinyin: Táiběi Jīnmǎ...

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Three Piglets

as Self
First aired: 2019-02-22

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Sisyphus

as Jiang Sen
First aired: 2020-09-02

Zhang Hai Feng quits his job as a police officer after the death of his daughter, Duo Duo....

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Twisted Strings

as uncredited
First aired: 2022-03-27

Leading Taiwan cinema names Hou Hsiao-hsien (“The Assassin,” “The Puppetmaster”) and Lee...

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Twisted Strings

as Yong
First aired: 2022-03-27

Leading Taiwan cinema names Hou Hsiao-hsien (“The Assassin,” “The Puppetmaster”) and Lee...

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Twisted Strings

as Tang Niansheng
First aired: 2022-03-27

Leading Taiwan cinema names Hou Hsiao-hsien (“The Assassin,” “The Puppetmaster”) and Lee...

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