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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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01 January 1997
With a singular voice that distinguishes him from his New Taiwan Cinema contemporaries, Lin Cheng-sheng adds to his brief, but already remarkable, filmography with Sweet Degeneration, his third film in two years.
23 June 2016
A loafer inherits an apartment block and lets out the place to a group of tenants, including a lusty gymnastics teacher, a geeky college student, a single father with his young daughter, a gay couple, a writer and a sexy female office worker.
31 October 2007
Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent filmmakers to produce short pieces exploring the multifarious facets of cinema and their perspective on the state of their chosen artform in the early 21st century.
04 September 2007
Having lost all his money in the stock market, a depressed man falls in love with a woman over a suicide helpline.
02 September 2020
Jia-min, who was born sensitive to the paranormal, tries to summon "Yi-A-Gu" with two streamers. Huo-ge helps Jia-min subdue the spirit when the situation goes out of hand.
04 October 2013
A contemplative trip down memory lane with one of the leading voices of the Second New Wave of Taiwanese Cinema.
09 October 2009
Taipei 24H divides 24 hours in Taipei into 8 shorts. It opens with Cheng Fen-fen's upbeat and comedic "Share the Morning", and ends with Lee Kang-sheng running the final leg of this relay with "Remembrance" at 4am.
06 April 2002
For the past forty years, Ah Long has headed up a traditional Chinese musical troupe. But times are changing, and the troupe members leaving one by one, Ah Hui, is an aimless slacker with no plans for the future.
08 October 2021
Croc is a young gangster who goes back to work for his former boss at a city councilor’s office after his release from jail.
21 March 2012
A collection of shorts by four East Asian directors: Ann Hui on a male-to-female sex change, Kim Tae-yong on an emotional imposture, Gu Changwei on pregnancy in China and Tsai Ming-Liang on time and the city of Hong Kong.
01 December 2021
This short by Tsai Ming-liang, completed in 2021, was filmed at "the Dune" in Yilan, Taiwan, where the eight films in his Walker series were being shown.
02 March 1995
Three lonely young denizens of Taipei unknowingly share an apartment: May, a real estate agent who uses it for her sexual affairs; Ah-jung, her current lover; and Hsiao-kang, who's stolen the key and uses the apartment as a retreat.
12 December 2003
On a dark, wet night in Taipei City, a cavernous old picture palace is about to close its doors forever.
10 April 1999
Ordinary Heroes is a narration about the life stories of an advocate, a prostitute, a social worker, and a priest during the social movements from 1970s to 1980s in Hong Kong.
26 September 2001
A street vendor with a grim home-life forges a connection with a young woman on her way to Paris.
19 May 2005
Hsiao-Kang, now working as an adult movie actor, meets Shiang-chyi once again. Meanwhile, the city of Taipei faces a water shortage that makes the sales of watermelons skyrocket.
21 April 2015
In 2015, Tsai Ming-Liang was once again invited by the Hong Kong International Film Festival to make the opening short film.
06 July 2021
Short film directed by Lang Wu. In 2021, Absence was nominated for Best Short Film at the 74th Cannes.
14 November 2024
After the mysterious disappearance of their baby daughter, a young couple receives strange videos and realizes someone has been filming their daily life — even in their most intimate moments.
04 August 1994
In Taipei, four youths face alienation, loneliness, and moments of existential crisis amidst a series of minor crimes.
07 August 1997
A young man develops severe neck pain after swimming in a polluted river for a movie shoot, but nobody can provide him any relief.
08 November 2024
The life of a man, transitioning from a hunter-gatherer existence in the mountains to a life in the farm.
18 February 2022
Somewhere on the coast of Taiwan is Hotel Iris, a mouldering seaside establishment run by a cold and thrifty Japanese woman (Nahana) and her lonely half-Taiwanese daughter Mari (Lucia).
24 April 2015
A Japanese porno actor, HIV positive, commits suicide. Natsumi, a popular porno actress who has often worked with him, learns that she is also HIV positive and becomes desperate.
07 October 2022
Chen’s daughter is returning from the UK after her university graduation. On the weekend of her return, Chen accidentally learns her secret when they are hijacked by two ruffians.
11 September 2020
Rescue member Jie and his companions rescued a reef tanker in the storm, but met the captain who was stubborn and unwilling to give up.
13 January 2023
Asheng, once a gang member of the Zhongshan District, was sent to jail for 12 years after saving his friend Shaou.
07 October 2022
A cold, hard-nosed lawyer, Zhang, discovers that his past client, Tang, is involved in yet another case of sexual assault.
27 August 2025
After ten years in prison, Han Jiangyu returns to Hainan Island. Housing construction is booming, his childhood friend is now rich.
21 February 2014
An alcoholic man and his two young children barely survive in Taipei. They cross paths with a lonely grocery clerk who might help them make a better life.
19 November 2021
Tourists, foreigners and outcasts converge on the streets of Osaka in this sprawling ensemble drama by Japan-based, Malaysia-born filmmaker Lim Kah Wai.
02 December 2006
Rawang, an immigrant from Bangladesh living in awful conditions, takes pity on a Chinese man, Hsiao-kang, who is beaten up and left in the street.
24 March 1999
In the final days of the year 1999, almost everyone in Taiwan has died from a strange plague that ravished the island.
31 March 2018
Tsai Ming-Liang, the artisan of cinematography approaches virtual reality, pushing the boundaries of VR film.
21 May 2021
Kang lives alone in a big house, Non in a small apartment in town. They meet, and then part, their days flowing on as before.
12 March 2025
A sudden loss catalyzes an unlikely bond between two migrants in the Chinese community of Queens. Navigating lives far from home and the painstaking labor that supports them, they journey through grief together in hopes of finding family.
01 January 2004
Drama about a young boy who suffers from a rare deficiency disease. The medicine he has to take every day has the side effect of making him reek of ammonia.
05 July 2012
In 2011, Tsai Ming-Liang staged a play, "Only You", for Taiwan's National Theater and Concert Hall. In it, there was a powerfully moving scene where monk Xuanzang walked at an extremely slow pace for half an hour.
02 October 2009
Hsiao-Kang, a Taiwanese film director, travels to the Louvre in Paris, France, to shoot a film that explores the Salomé myth.
25 November 2022
The ninth opus of his Walker Films series, which was shot at Centre Pompidou.
20 February 2024
The walker with the shaved head and dressed in a red robe is barefoot. He walks slowly but determinedly through the forest, over stones and grassland.
01 September 2023
While he was in Macau, Pan Yiming unexpectedly receives a will from his father. They haven't seen each other in 30 years, still father left Pan Yiming with a huge hesitance, asking him to attend the funeral in order to inherit it.
01 November 2025
A sleeping city, streets without people. A figure in a red robe walks slowly — across a carpet of leaves, over cobblestones, along the cold pavement.
24 April 2014
In 2014, Tsai Ming-Liang was invited to make a film for the MarseilleFID, Marseille International Film Festival.
07 September 2018
Composed of a series of portrait shots of mostly anonymous individuals, filmmaker Tsai Ming-liang's digital experiment turns the human face into a subject of dramatic intrigue.
06 June 2002
Human shortcomings in the pursuit of an idol. Two film school students travel to interview Taiwanese film director Tsai Ming-liang and actor Lee Kang-sheng in Oslo.
27 August 2012
A continuation of Tsai Ming-Liang's Walker series, featuring Lee Kang-Sheng as a barefoot monk who walks very slowly.
28 April 2001
The original subject intended for this film was a spiritual medium who was unbelievably accurate. Tsai Ming-liang jumped on his 50cc motorbike, equipped with a DV camera ready to shoot her, to see whether the god would speak to his camera.
28 April 2018
In 2018, Tsai Ming-Liang was invited by the Northeast and Yilan Coast National Scenic Area Administration to make this film, his eighth in the "Walker" series.
08 September 2012
In 2012, the Hong Kong International Film Festival invited Tsai Ming-Ling to make the opening short film.
01 January 2012
In order to recreate a photograph, two actors undergo a transformation.
01 May 1996
After his wife dies during childbirth, Ku-cheng leaves his children behind in their rural village while he finds work on a construction site in the city.
08 October 2002
A young woman wandering around meets a young man going to a casting call for a pornographic film.
10 April 1991
A junior-high student bullies and blackmails a younger boy, then receives the same treatment at the hands of some older students.
30 December 2000
Hsin-He, a high school sophomore who can get along just fine on her own, lives with her father. At school, the days pass slowly by, until one day, she is assigned to be the student teacher.
13 October 2016
A documentary about Nogami Teruyo, who for nearly half a century stood by Akira Kurosawa as a screenwriting collaborator, a script supervisor, and a companion.
12 September 2015
Lush jungle and a building in ruins are the ideal stage for a film-confession that defies storytelling and goes beyond conversation on cinema.
07 September 2012
In 2012, Taiwanese architects Michael Lin and Liao Wei-li invited Tsai Ming-Liang to create moving visuals for their exhibit at the Venise Architecture Biennale.
25 March 2015
Understanding "beauty" for 2015... From Beijing, Huang Jianxin wonders if it's nobler to sleep or not to sleep in Insomniac Diary.
17 May 2024
Dong Bin has opened a surfing shop by the sea where Xiao Fang started working. The young man, however, seems to be on the run from himself, not being able to move beyond his grief and guilt for an accident that took place when he was still in school.
