Lee Kang-ShengFilmography

Born:
January 1, 1968 in Taipei, Taiwan
Occupation:
Actor, Director, Screenwriter

  • Face

    Actors: Fanny Ardant, Laetitia Casta, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Lee Kang-Sheng, Lu Yi-ching

    Synopsis: A filmmaker is attempting to complete an ambitious project in the midst of a family tragedy in this self-referential drama from writer and director Tsai Ming-Liang. Hsaio-Kong (Lee Kang-Sheng) is a director from Taiwan who is soon to begin shooting his next picture, a stylized adaptation of Read More

    2009

  • I Don't Want to Sleep Alone

    Actors: Lee Kang-Sheng, Chen Shiang-Chyi, Norman Bin Atun, Pearlly Chua

    Synopsis: A homeless Chinese itinerant is attacked by thugs in Kuala Lampur, only to fall in with a group of kind but curious Bangladeshi men and other fascinating denizens of the smog-soaked city in director Tsai Ming-liang's minimalist mediation on contemporary life in the Malaysian capitol. Hsiao-kang Read More

    5/9/07

  • The Wayward Cloud

    Actors: Lee Kang-Sheng, Chen Shiang-Chyi, Lu Yi-ching, Yang Kuei-Mei, Yozakura Sumomo

    Synopsis: The subjects of love, sex, and lust in modern-day Taiwan are given a surreal, kaleidoscopic treatment in Tsai Ming-Liang's experimental feature film. The Wayward Cloud contains no plot per se, but rather a succession of strange set pieces in which young lovers connect, disconnect, and attempt to Read More

    2/23/07

  • Help Me Eros

    Crew: Director, Screenwriter

    Actors: Lee Kang-Sheng, Yin Shin, Jane Liao, Dennis Nieh

    Synopsis: Taiwanese filmmaker Lee Kang-Sheng voices his growing dissatisfaction with consumer culture in this tale of a man sunken into a deep depression after losing all of his money in the stock market. There once was a time when Ah Jie (Lee) could afford to fill his luxurious apartment with the best Read More

    2007

  • Goodbye, Dragon Inn

    Actors: Lee Kang-Sheng, Chen Shiang-Chyi, Kiyonobu Mitamura, Miao Tien, Shih Chung-tien

    Synopsis: In a cavernous movie palace, King Hu's classic 1968 film Dragon Inn plays for a sparse crowd. As the movie progresses, the ticket-taker makes dinner, cleans the bathroom, and checks in on the projectionist. Audience members wander in and out, occasionally interacting in the restroom or the vast Read More

    9/17/04

  • The Missing

    Crew: Director, Screenwriter

    Synopsis: The city of Taipei becomes an alienating dystopia in this minimalist directorial debut from Taiwanese actor Lee Kang-sheng. A grandmother (Lu Yi-chih) loses her grandson in a park and spends the remainder of the day searching for him. Meanwhile, a troubled teenager's grandfather similarly Read More

    2003

  • What Time is it There?

    Actors: Lee Kang-Sheng, Chen Shiang-Chyi, Miao Tien, Cecilia Yip

    Synopsis: Master Taiwanese filmmaker Tsai Ming-liang directs this look at three people looking for human connection. Hsiao-kang (Tsai regular Lee Kang-sheng) is a young man who sells watches from a briefcase in front of Taipei's train station. When his father (Mio Tien) suddenly dies at the beginning of the Read More

    1/11/02

  • The Hole

    Actors: Yang Kuei-Mei, Lee Kang-Sheng, Miao Tien, Tong Hsiang-chu

    Synopsis: At the 1998 Cannes Film Festival, this Taiwanese-French drama won a FIPRESCI Award, given by international critics. Taiwanese director Tsai Ming-liang previously won top awards for his 1994 Vive l'amour (at Venice) and 1996 The River (at Berlin). High strangeness is evident in the tale, originally Read More

    3/24/99

  • Fanglang

    Actors: Chen Shiang-Chyi, Lee Kang-Sheng, Chen Shih-huang, Chang Pen-yu, Lin Chih-long

    Synopsis: Separated from her husband, lonely dress-designer Ju-feng (Chen Shiang-chyi) hopes to spend time with her brother Chuen-sheng (Lee Kang-sheng), but when he returns from military service, he chooses instead to steal from their father, play the sax, and hang out with Taipei hookers. Mei-li (Chang Pen-yu Read More

    1998

  • Qian Yan Wan Yu

    Actors: Rachel Lee, Lee Kang-Sheng, Anthony Wong, Tse Kwan-ho

    Synopsis: Ann Hui, a prominent filmmaker in the former British colony of Hong Kong, reflects on the political history of her country in a remarkable work, Qian Yan Wan Yu. The film centers on four people involved in the political activism of 1980's who reflect on their turbulent past from the vantage point Read More

    1998

  • The River

    Actors: Lee Kang-Sheng, Lu Hsiao-Ling, Miao Tien

    Synopsis: Tsai Ming-Liang's The River, the Taiwanese master's third feature, opens with a chance encounter between Xiao-Kang (Lee Kang-Sheng) and an old friend (Chen Shiang-Chyi), an unexpected meeting that sets this bleak and ultimately disturbing film on its course. Persuaded to accompany his friend to a Read More

    1997

  • A Drifting Life

    Synopsis: The underlying premise of this subtle character study of a rural Taiwanese family seems to hinge on the lead character's grim notion that fate may be a blind alley and that life may have no higher purpose. Ku-cheng is fully grown and married with a daughter, but still lives on his poor family's Read More

    1996

  • Vive l'Amour

    Actors: Yang Kuei-Mei, Lee Kang-Sheng, Chen Chao-Jung

    Synopsis: This second film by prominent Taiwanese director Tsai Ming-liang is a brilliant portrayal of isolation and urban disillusionment in modern Taipei. The movie focuses on three lonely souls: Hsiao-kang, a gay salesman of crematorium niches who wanders the city on his scooter; Ah-jung, a handsome Read More

    1994

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