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).
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 6.189 |
| Birthday | 1968-10-12 |
| Place of Birth | Taipei, Taiwan |
| Also Known As | Lee Kang Sheng, Lee Hong-sang, 李康生, 李 康生, Lǐ Kāngshēng, Lǐ Kāng-shēng, Lǐ Kāng Shēng, Lee Kangsheng, Lee Hong Sang, Lee Hongsang, |
2001
What Time Is It There?
7/100
When a young street vendor with a grim home life meets a woman on her way to Paris, they forge an instant connection. He changes all the clocks in Tai...
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What Time Is It There?
1995
Vive L'Amour
7.134/123
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 curren...
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Vive L'Amour
2006
I Don't Want to Sleep Alone
6.588/40
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. Raw...
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I Don't Want to Sleep Alone
2005
The Wayward Cloud
5.917/102
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 sal...
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The Wayward Cloud
1999
The Hole
6.994/78
In the final days of the year 1999, almost everyone in Taiwan has died from a strange plague that ravished the island. As rain pours down relentlessly...
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The Hole
2009
Face
5.739/23
Hsiao-Kang, a Taiwanese film director, travels to the Louvre in Paris, France, to shoot a film that explores the Salomé myth.
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Face
1997
The River
6.731/65
A young man develops severe neck pain after swimming in a polluted river for a movie shoot, but nobody can provide him any relief.
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The River
2007
Help Me, Eros
5.8/22
Having lost all his money in the stock market, a depressed man falls in love with a woman over a suicide helpline.
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Help Me, Eros
2003
Goodbye, Dragon Inn
6.7/140
On a dark and rainy night, a historic and regal Taipei cinema sees its final film: 1967 martial arts feature "Dragon Inn". As the film plays, the live...
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Goodbye, Dragon Inn
1994
Rebels of the Neon God
7.294/131
Defying his parents, disaffected youth Hsiao Kang drops out of the local cram school to head for the bright lights of downtown Taipei. He falls in wit...
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Rebels of the Neon God
2012
Walker
6.1/21
A metaphor for mourning as much as it is a reminder to slow down, Tsai Ming-liang's stunningly beautiful Walker features his acteur fétiche Lee Kang-S...
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Walker
2014
Stray Dogs
6.371/85
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 l...
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Stray Dogs
2012
No Form
0/0
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 m...
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No Form
2014
Journey to the West
6.431/29
In 2014, Tsai Ming-Liang was invited to make a film for the MarseilleFID, Marseille International Film Festival. Since he was not familiar with Marsei...
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Journey to the West
1996
A Drifting Life
4.3/3
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 ci...
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A Drifting Life
1997
Sweet Degeneration
4/4
With a singular voice that distinguishes him from his New Taiwan Cinema contemporaries, Lin Cheng-sheng adds to his brief, but already remarkable, fil...
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Sweet Degeneration
2002
The Skywalk Is Gone
5.889/27
A young woman wandering around meets a young man going to a casting call for a pornographic film.
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The Skywalk Is Gone
1991
Boys
6.5/4
A junior-high student bullies and blackmails a younger boy, then receives the same treatment at the hands of some older students.
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Boys
2016
Autumn Days
0/0
A documentary about Nogami Teruyo, who for nearly half a century stood by Akira Kurosawa as a screenwriting collaborator, a script supervisor, and a c...
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Autumn Days
2016
Single Belief
6.3/3
Ximending was once the trendiest area in Taipei, and it's also where Kang-sheng Lee's first film was shot. Twenty years ago, director Ming-liang Tsai...
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Single Belief
2012
Beautiful 2012
5.2/6
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 pr...
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Beautiful 2012
2015
No No Sleep
6.2/12
In 2015, Tsai Ming-Liang was once again invited by the Hong Kong International Film Festival to make the opening short film. This time, he selected Sh...
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No No Sleep
2013
Walking on Water
7.5/1
In 2013, Tsai Ming-Liang was invited by Malaysian filmmaker Tan Chui Mui to make a short film for an anthology film, "Letters from the South". Tsai Mi...
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Walking on Water
2012
Sleepwalk
0/0
A continuation of Tsai Ming-Liang's Walker series, featuring Lee Kang-Sheng as a barefoot monk who walks very slowly.
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Sleepwalk
2012
Diamond Sutra
0/0
In 2012, Taiwanese architects Michael Lin and Liao Wei-li invited Tsai Ming-Liang to create moving visuals for their exhibit at the Venise Architectur...
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Diamond Sutra
2015
Sashimi
3.6/7
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 pos...
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Sashimi
2015
Xiao Kang
4.8/4
Viennale-Trailer 2015: Two-minute homage to Lee Kang-sheng, Xiao Kang.
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Xiao Kang
1999
Ordinary Heroes
7.1/9
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 197...
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Ordinary Heroes
2015
Afternoon
7.3/6
Lush jungle and a building in ruins are the ideal stage for a film-confession that defies storytelling and goes beyond conversation on cinema. Tsai Mi...
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Afternoon
2016
The Tenants Downstairs
6.344/32
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 si...
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The Tenants Downstairs
2014
Le voyage en Occident
4.5/1
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Le voyage en Occident
2018
The Deserted
7/1
Tsai Ming-Liang, the artisan of cinematography approaches virtual reality, pushing the boundaries of VR film. The Deserted stripped away traditional f...
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The Deserted
2002
A Way We Go
0/0
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A Way We Go
2013
Letters from the South
5.4/4
Six filmmakers present six short films about the experiences of Chinese immigrants. Shot across Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore and Myanmar, the antholo...
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Letters from the South
2009
Flowers in the Mirror, Moon in the Water
0/0
The title of the François Lunel film is the Buddhist proverb concluding by: "all is but illusion". His movie draws the Tsai Ming-Liang's face during t...
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Flowers in the Mirror, Moon in the Water
2018
Your Face
7/11
Composed of a series of portrait shots of mostly anonymous individuals, filmmaker Tsai Ming-liang's digital experiment turns the human face into a sub...
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Your Face
2018
Sand
0/0
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...
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Sand
2021
Days
6.4/23
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.
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Days
1995
My New Friends
0/0
Tsai interrupted his pre-production for The River to make this pioneering documentary for Taiwan's nascent AIDS-awareness campaign. Ignoring instructi...
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My New Friends
2020
Abyssal Spider
4.6/7
Rescue member Ajie and his companions rescued a reef tanker in the storm, but met the captain who was stubborn and unwilling to give up. At the same t...
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Abyssal Spider
2002
Looking for Tsai
0/0
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-...
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Looking for Tsai
2020
The Rope Curse 2
5.6/21
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 situa...
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The Rope Curse 2
2000
Sunny Doll
0/0
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...
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Sunny Doll
2021
Come and Go
0/0
Tourists, foreigners and outcasts converge on the streets of Osaka in this sprawling ensemble drama by Japan-based, Malaysia-born filmmaker Lim Kah Wa...
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Come and Go
2021
Grit
4.2/5
Ko Chen-tung (You Are the Apple of My Eye, Road to Mandalay) and Angelica Lee (The Eye, The Garden of Evening Mists) make an unusual romantic pairing...
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Grit
2022
Hotel Iris
3.5/2
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 ha...
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Hotel Iris
2013
Past Present
6.3/3
A contemplative trip down memory lane with one of the leading voices of the Second New Wave of Taiwanese Cinema. Saw Tiong Guan clearly established a...
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Past Present
2021
Wandering
4/1
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 sho...
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Wandering
2023
Everything Is Unknown
1.5/2
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...
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Everything Is Unknown
2022
Fantasy · World
6/4
A cold, hard-nosed lawyer, Zhang, discovers that his past client, Tang, is involved in yet another case of sexual assault. Thirteen years ago, Zhang w...
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Fantasy · World
2021
Absence
0/0
Short film directed by Lang Wu. In 2021, Absence was nominated for Best Short Film at the 74th Cannes. After ten years in prison, Han Jiangyu returns...
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Absence
2023
Lost in Forest
4/1
Asheng, once a gang member of the Zhongshan District, was sent to jail for 12 years after saving his friend Shaou. He is released and returns to Linse...
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Lost in Forest
1989
All the Corners of the World
6.2/4
Mr and Mrs Chang live in Taipei's Hsi-Men-Ding (the city's entertainment/red light/nightlife district) with their teenaged kids. The parents work as c...
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All the Corners of the World
2022
The Wind Will Say
3/1
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...
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The Wind Will Say
2022
Where
0/0
The ninth opus of his Walker Films series, which was shot at Centre Pompidou.
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Where
2023
Absence
7/1
After ten years in prison, Han Jiangyu returns to Hainan Island. Housing construction is booming, his childhood friend is now rich. Searching for trac...
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Absence
2022
Making-of du tournage de Tsai Ming-Liang au Centre Pompidou
0/0
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Making-of du tournage de Tsai Ming-Liang au Centre Pompidou
2008
Sleeping on Dark Waters
5.7/3
A behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of Ming-liang Tsai’s I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone.
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Sleeping on Dark Waters
2024
Sonata of Wave
2/1
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...
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Sonata of Wave
Stranger Eyes
0/0
Following the disappearance of their 2-year-old daughter, Darren and Tara receive mysterious videos of their family and intimate life. When they find...
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Stranger Eyes
2012
Transformation
0/0
In order to recreate a photograph, two actors undergo a transformation.
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Transformation
2016
Black Ox
0/0
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Black Ox
2007
To Each His Own Cinema
6.5/127
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 filmmak...
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To Each His Own Cinema
2001
The Moon is Gone
0/0
Tsai Ming-liang directed in 2001 this episode of the popular Taiwanese TV children show Fruit Pie (《水果冰淇淋》), although it rarely appears on Tsai...
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The Moon is Gone
2024
Abiding Nowhere
0/0
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....
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Abiding Nowhere
2025
Blue Sun Palace
0/0
A sudden loss catalyzes an unlikely bond between two migrants in the Chinese community of Queens. Navigating lives far from home and the painstaking l...
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