Lee Kang-sheng
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).
To Each His Own Cinema
as (segment: It’s A Dream)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 ActorHsiao-Kang, now working as an adult movie actor, meets Shiang-chyi once again. Meanwhile, the...
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Rebels of the Neon God
as Hsiao-kangDefying 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-kangThree lonely young denizens of Taipei unknowingly share an apartment: May, a real estate agent...
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Goodbye, Dragon Inn
as ProjectionistOn a dark and rainy night, a historic and regal Taipei cinema sees its final film: 1967 martial...
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Stray Dogs
as FatherAn alcoholic man and his two young children barely survive in Taipei. They cross paths with a...
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What Time Is It There?
as Hsiao-KangA street vendor with a grim home-life forges a connection with a young woman on her way to Paris.
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The Rope Curse 2
as Huo-geJia-min, who was born sensitive to the paranormal, tries to summon "Yi-A-Gu" with two streamers....
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The River
as Hsiao-KangA young man develops severe neck pain after swimming in a polluted river for a movie shoot, but...
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The Hole
as The Man UpstairsIn the final days of the year 1999, almost everyone in Taiwan has died from a strange plague...
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Hotel Iris
as uncreditedSomewhere on the coast of Taiwan is Hotel Iris, a mouldering seaside establishment run by a cold...
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Abiding Nowhere
as uncreditedThe walker with the shaved head and dressed in a red robe is barefoot. He walks slowly but...
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The Tenants Downstairs
as Guo LiA loafer inherits an apartment block and lets out the place to a group of tenants, including a...
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Blue Sun Palace
as CheungA sudden loss catalyzes an unlikely bond between two migrants in the Chinese community of...
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Days
as KangKang lives alone in a big house, Non in a small apartment in town. They meet, and then part,...
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Sweet Degeneration
as Chun-shengWith a singular voice that distinguishes him from his New Taiwan Cinema contemporaries, Lin...
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I Don't Want to Sleep Alone
as Hsiao-KangRawang, an immigrant from Bangladesh living in awful conditions, takes pity on a Chinese man,...
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Sashimi
as Chen-mingA Japanese porno actor, HIV positive, commits suicide. Natsumi, a popular porno actress who has...
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Journey to the West
as MonkIn 2014, Tsai Ming-Liang was invited to make a film for the MarseilleFID, Marseille...
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Help Me, Eros
as Ah JieHaving lost all his money in the stock market, a depressed man falls in love with a woman over a...
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Face
as Kang / The DirectorHsiao-Kang, a Taiwanese film director, travels to the Louvre in Paris, France, to shoot a film...
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The Skywalk Is Gone
as Hsiao-KangA young woman wandering around meets a young man going to a casting call for a pornographic film.
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Stranger Eyes
as Lao WuAfter the mysterious disappearance of their baby daughter, a young couple receives strange...
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Everything Is Unknown
as Hua QiWhile he was in Macau, Pan Yiming unexpectedly receives a will from his father. They haven't...
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No No Sleep
as MonkIn the wee hours of winter a night train travels through a sleepless city. This is a panorama of...
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Beautiful 2012
as uncreditedA collection of shorts by four East Asian directors: Ann Hui on a male-to-female sex change, Kim...
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Abyssal Spider
as Ship's CaptainRescue member Ajie and his companions rescued a reef tanker in the storm, but met the captain...
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Fantasy · World
as Tang ShichengA cold, hard-nosed lawyer, Zhang, discovers that his past client, Tang, is involved in yet...
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Ordinary Heroes
as Lee Siu TungOrdinary Heroes is a narration about the life stories of an advocate, a prostitute, a social...
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Come and Go
as Xiao KangTourists, foreigners and outcasts converge on the streets of Osaka in this sprawling ensemble...
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Lost in Forest
as ShengAsheng, once a gang member of the Zhongshan District, was sent to jail for 12 years after saving...
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Walker
as MonkA metaphor for mourning as much as it is a reminder to slow down, Tsai Ming-liang's stunningly...
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Wandering
as uncreditedThis short by Tsai Ming-liang, completed in 2021, was filmed at "the Dune" in Yilan, Taiwan,...
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Sleepwalk
as uncreditedA continuation of Tsai Ming-Liang's Walker series, featuring Lee Kang-Sheng as a barefoot monk...
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Black Ox
as uncreditedIn the Meiji Period, in the 19th century Japan, transitioning towards modernization, BLACK OX...
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Your Face
as SelfComposed of a series of portrait shots of mostly anonymous individuals, filmmaker Tsai...
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Past Present
as SelfA contemplative trip down memory lane with one of the leading voices of the Second New Wave of...
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Grit
as Chief LiuCroc is a young gangster who goes back to work for his former boss at a city councilor’s office...
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Where
as MonkThe ninth opus of his Walker Films series, which was shot at Centre Pompidou.
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A Drifting Life
as Ku-chengAfter his wife dies during childbirth, Ku-cheng leaves his children behind in their rural...
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Boys
as uncreditedA junior-high student bullies and blackmails a younger boy, then receives the same treatment at...
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Sleeping on Dark Waters
as uncreditedA behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of Ming-liang Tsai’s I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone.
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Sonata of Wave
as DongbinDong Bin has opened a surfing shop by the sea where Xiao Fang started working. The young man,...
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Making-of du tournage de Tsai Ming-Liang au Centre Pompidou
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The Deserted
as uncreditedTsai Ming-Liang, the artisan of cinematography approaches virtual reality, pushing the...
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Absence
as Han JiangyuShort film directed by Lang Wu. In 2021, Absence was nominated for Best Short Film at the 74th...
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Letters from the South
as Xiao Kang (segment "Walking on Water")Six filmmakers present six short films about the experiences of Chinese immigrants. Shot across...
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Sand
as SelfIn 2018, Tsai Ming-Liang was invited by the Northeast and Yilan Coast National Scenic Area...
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Afternoon
as SelfLush jungle and a building in ruins are the ideal stage for a film-confession that defies...
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Absence
as Han JiangyuAfter ten years in prison, Han Jiangyu returns to Hainan Island. Housing construction is...
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Sunny Doll
as uncreditedHsin-He, a high school sophomore who can get along just fine on her own, lives with her father....
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One & Zero
as uncreditedTsai Ming-liang has been living in an abandoned house in the mountains since 2014. Around the...
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All the Corners of the World
as Ah-tongMr and Mrs Chang live in Taipei's Hsi-Men-Ding (the city's entertainment/red light/nightlife...
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No Form
as uncreditedIn 2011, Tsai Ming-Liang staged a play, "Only You", for Taiwan's National Theater and Concert...
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Single Belief
as uncreditedXimending was once the trendiest area in Taipei, and it's also where Kang-sheng Lee's first film...
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Autumn Days
as uncreditedA documentary about Nogami Teruyo, who for nearly half a century stood by Akira Kurosawa as a...
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Transformation
as HimselfIn order to recreate a photograph, two actors undergo a transformation.
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The Wind Will Say
as uncreditedChen’s daughter is returning from the UK after her university graduation. On the weekend of her...
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Diamond Sutra
as uncreditedIn 2012, Taiwanese architects Michael Lin and Liao Wei-li invited Tsai Ming-Liang to create...
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Looking for Tsai
as HimselfHuman shortcomings in the pursuit of an idol. Two film school students travel to interview...
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My New Friends
as uncreditedTsai interrupted his pre-production for The River to make this pioneering documentary for...
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Golden Horse Awards
as SelfThe Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards (Chinese: 台北金馬影展; pinyin: Táiběi Jīnmǎ...
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Sisyphus
as Jiang SenEx-cop Zhang Haifeng discovers new clues about his daughter's death while investigating a serial...
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Twisted Strings
as uncreditedLeading Taiwan cinema names Hou Hsiao-hsien (“The Assassin,” “The Puppetmaster”) and Lee...
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Twisted Strings
as YongLeading Taiwan cinema names Hou Hsiao-hsien (“The Assassin,” “The Puppetmaster”) and Lee...
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Twisted Strings
as Tang NianshengLeading Taiwan cinema names Hou Hsiao-hsien (“The Assassin,” “The Puppetmaster”) and Lee...
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