Lee Kang-sheng
Birthday: 1968-10-12
Place of Birth: Taipei, Taiwan
Biography: 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).
Movies
Hotel Iris
Somewhere on the coast of Taiwan is Hotel Iris, a mouldering seaside establishment run by a cold and...
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What Time Is It There?
A street vendor with a grim home-life forges a connection with a young woman on her way to Paris....
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Vive L'Amour
Three lonely young denizens of Taipei unknowingly share an apartment: May, a real estate agent who u...
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I Don't Want to Sleep Alone
Rawang, an immigrant from Bangladesh living in awful conditions, takes pity on a Chinese man, Hsiao-...
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The Wayward Cloud
Hsiao-Kang, now working as an adult movie actor, meets Shiang-chyi once again. Meanwhile, the city o...
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Past Present
A contemplative trip down memory lane with one of the leading voices of the Second New Wave of Taiwa...
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Sleeping on Dark Waters
A 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
Dong Bin has opened a surfing shop by the sea where Xiao Fang started working. The young man, howeve...
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The Hole
In the final days of the year 1999, almost everyone in Taiwan has died from a strange plague that ra...
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Face
Hsiao-Kang, a Taiwanese film director, travels to the Louvre in Paris, France, to shoot a film that ...
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The River
A young man develops severe neck pain after swimming in a polluted river for a movie shoot, but nobo...
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Help Me, Eros
Having lost all his money in the stock market, a depressed man falls in love with a woman over a sui...
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Wandering
This short by Tsai Ming-liang, completed in 2021, was filmed at "the Dune" in Yilan, Taiwan, where t...
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Goodbye, Dragon Inn
On a dark and rainy night, a historic and regal Taipei cinema sees its final film: 1967 martial arts...
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Walker
In 2012, the Hong Kong International Film Festival invited Tsai Ming-Ling to make the opening short ...
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Everything Is Unknown
While he was in Macau, Pan Yiming unexpectedly receives a will from his father. They haven't seen ea...
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Stranger Eyes
After the mysterious disappearance of their baby daughter, a young couple receives strange videos an...
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Transformation
In order to recreate a photograph, two actors undergo a transformation....
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Black Ox
The life of a man, transitioning from a hunter-gatherer existence in the mountains to a life in the ...
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Fantasy · World
A cold, hard-nosed lawyer, Zhang, discovers that his past client, Tang, is involved in yet another c...
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Absence
Short film directed by Lang Wu. In 2021, Absence was nominated for Best Short Film at the 74th Canne...
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Stray Dogs
An alcoholic man and his two young children barely survive in Taipei. They cross paths with a lonely...
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No Form
In 2011, Tsai Ming-Liang staged a play, "Only You", for Taiwan's National Theater and Concert Hall. ...
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Journey to the West
In 2014, Tsai Ming-Liang was invited to make a film for the MarseilleFID, Marseille International Fi...
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A Drifting Life
After his wife dies during childbirth, Ku-cheng leaves his children behind in their rural village wh...
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Sweet Degeneration
With a singular voice that distinguishes him from his New Taiwan Cinema contemporaries, Lin Cheng-sh...
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The Skywalk Is Gone
A young woman wandering around meets a young man going to a casting call for a pornographic film....
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Lost in Forest
Asheng, once a gang member of the Zhongshan District, was sent to jail for 12 years after saving his...
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Beautiful 2012
A collection of shorts by four East Asian directors: Ann Hui on a male-to-female sex change, Kim Tae...
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To Each His Own Cinema
Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brou...
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The Moon Is Gone
Tsai Ming-liang directed in 2001 this episode of the popular Taiwanese TV children show Fruit Pie (《...
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Abiding Nowhere
The walker with the shaved head and dressed in a red robe is barefoot. He walks slowly but determine...
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The Wind Will Say
Chen’s daughter is returning from the UK after her university graduation. On the weekend of her retu...
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Boys
A junior-high student bullies and blackmails a younger boy, then receives the same treatment at the ...
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No No Sleep
In 2015, Tsai Ming-Liang was once again invited by the Hong Kong International Film Festival to make...
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Walking on Water
In 2013, Tsai Ming-Liang was invited by Malaysian filmmaker Tan Chui Mui to make a short film for an...
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Sleepwalk
A continuation of Tsai Ming-Liang's Walker series, featuring Lee Kang-Sheng as a barefoot monk who w...
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Diamond Sutra
In 2012, Taiwanese architects Michael Lin and Liao Wei-li invited Tsai Ming-Liang to create moving v...
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Absence
After ten years in prison, Han Jiangyu returns to Hainan Island. Housing construction is booming, hi...
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Sashimi
A Japanese porno actor, HIV positive, commits suicide. Natsumi, a popular porno actress who has ofte...
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Blue Sun Palace
A sudden loss catalyzes an unlikely bond between two migrants in the Chinese community of Queens. Na...
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Ordinary Heroes
Ordinary Heroes is a narration about the life stories of an advocate, a prostitute, a social worker,...
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Afternoon
Lush jungle and a building in ruins are the ideal stage for a film-confession that defies storytelli...
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The Tenants Downstairs
A loafer inherits an apartment block and lets out the place to a group of tenants, including a lusty...
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One & Zero
Tsai Ming-liang has been living in an abandoned house in the mountains since 2014. Around the same t...
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Autumn Days
A documentary about Nogami Teruyo, who for nearly half a century stood by Akira Kurosawa as a screen...
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Single Belief
Ximending was once the trendiest area in Taipei, and it's also where Kang-sheng Lee's first film was...
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The Deserted
Tsai Ming-Liang, the artisan of cinematography approaches virtual reality, pushing the boundaries of...
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A Way We Go
For the past forty years, Ah Long has headed up a traditional Chinese musical troupe. But times are ...
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Letters from the South
Six filmmakers present six short films about the experiences of Chinese immigrants. Shot across Mala...
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Flowers in the Mirror, Moon in the Water
The title of the François Lunel film is the Buddhist proverb concluding by: "all is but illusion". H...
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Your Face
Composed of a series of portrait shots of mostly anonymous individuals, filmmaker Tsai Ming-liang's ...
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Sand
In 2018, Tsai Ming-Liang was invited by the Northeast and Yilan Coast National Scenic Area Administr...
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Days
Kang lives alone in a big house, Non in a small apartment in town. They meet, and then part, their d...
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My New Friends
Tsai interrupted his pre-production for The River to make this pioneering documentary for Taiwan's n...
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Abyssal Spider
Rescue member Ajie and his companions rescued a reef tanker in the storm, but met the captain who wa...
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Looking for Tsai
Human shortcomings in the pursuit of an idol. Two film school students travel to interview Taiwanese...
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The Rope Curse 2
Jia-min, who was born sensitive to the paranormal, tries to summon "Yi-A-Gu" with two streamers. Huo...
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Sunny Doll
Hsin-He, a high school sophomore who can get along just fine on her own, lives with her father. At s...
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Come and Go
Tourists, foreigners and outcasts converge on the streets of Osaka in this sprawling ensemble drama ...
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Grit
Croc is a young gangster who goes back to work for his former boss at a city councilor’s office afte...
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Sichuan Culinary Chronicles: In Four Chapters
The film continues to blend myths, legends, literature and folktales to further expand his narrative...
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Beautiful 2015
Understanding "beauty" for 2015... From Beijing, Huang Jianxin wonders if it's nobler to sleep or n...
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The Rope Curse 4
Zhen-hong, a man without resident registration, accompanied by his sister Mila’s ashes, returns to P...
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Night Journey
A sleeping city, streets without people. A figure in a red robe walks slowly — across a carpet of le...
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