Lee Kang-sheng
Popularity:0.252
Known For:Acting
Birthday:1968-10-12
Place of Birth:Taipei, Taiwan
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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

Hotel Iris (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...

What Time Is It There? (2001)
A street vendor with a grim home-life forges a connection with a young woman on her way to Paris.

Vive L'Amour (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...

I Don't Want to Sleep Alone (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....

The Wayward Cloud (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...

Past Present (2013)
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...

Sleeping on Dark Waters (2008)
A behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of Ming-liang Tsai’s I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone.

Sonata of Wave (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...

The Hole (1999)
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...

Face (2009)
Hsiao-Kang, a Taiwanese film director, travels to the Louvre in Paris, France, to shoot a film that explores the Salomé myth.

The River (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.

Help Me, Eros (2007)
Having lost all his money in the stock market, a depressed man falls in love with a woman over a suicide helpline.

Wandering (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...

Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003)
On a dark and rainy night, a historic and regal Taipei cinema sees its final film: 1967 martial arts feature "Dragon Inn".

Rebels of the Neon God (1994)
Defying his parents, disaffected youth Hsiao Kang drops out of the local cram school to head for the bright lights of downtown Taipei. He meets Ah...

Walker (2012)
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...

Everything Is Unknown (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...

Stranger Eyes (2024)
After the mysterious disappearance of their baby daughter, a young couple receives strange videos and realizes someone has been filming their daily...

Transformation (2012)
In order to recreate a photograph, two actors undergo a transformation.

Black Ox (2024)
In the Meiji Period, in the 19th century Japan, transitioning towards modernization, BLACK OX explores the relationship between man and ox, inspired...

Fantasy · World (2022)
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...

Absence (2021)
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...

Stray Dogs (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...

No Form (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...

Journey to the West (2014)
In 2014, Tsai Ming-Liang was invited to make a film for the MarseilleFID, Marseille International Film Festival. Since he was not familiar with...

A Drifting Life (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...

Sweet Degeneration (1997)
With a singular voice that distinguishes him from his New Taiwan Cinema contemporaries, Lin Cheng-sheng adds to his brief, but already remarkable,...

The Skywalk Is Gone (2002)
A young woman wandering around meets a young man going to a casting call for a pornographic film.

Lost in Forest (2023)
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...

Beautiful 2012 (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...

To Each His Own Cinema (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...

The Moon is Gone (2001)
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...

All the Corners of the World (1989)
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...

Abiding Nowhere (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...

The Wind Will Say (2022)
Chen’s daughter is returning from the UK after her university graduation. On the weekend of her return, Chen accidentally learns her secret...

Boys (1991)
A junior-high student bullies and blackmails a younger boy, then receives the same treatment at the hands of some older students.

No No Sleep (2015)
In the wee hours of winter a night train travels through a sleepless city. This is a panorama of a Buddhist monk's journey through Tokyo at night. He...

Walking on Water (2013)
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...

Where (2022)
The ninth opus of his Walker Films series, which was shot at Centre Pompidou.

Sleepwalk (2012)
A continuation of Tsai Ming-Liang's Walker series, featuring Lee Kang-Sheng as a barefoot monk who walks very slowly.

Diamond Sutra (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...

Absence (2023)
After ten years in prison, Han Jiangyu returns to Hainan Island. Housing construction is booming, his childhood friend is now rich. Searching for...

Sashimi (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...

Xiao Kang (2015)
Viennale-Trailer 2015: Two-minute homage to Lee Kang-sheng, Xiao Kang.

Making-of du tournage de Tsai Ming-Liang au Centre Pompidou (2022)

Blue Sun Palace (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...

Ordinary Heroes (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...

Afternoon (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. Tsai...

The Tenants Downstairs (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...

One & Zero (2016)
Tsai Ming-liang has been living in an abandoned house in the mountains since 2014. Around the same time, his persona, actor Lee Kang-sheng, wanted to...

Autumn Days (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...

Single Belief (2016)
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...

The Deserted (2018)
Tsai Ming-Liang, the artisan of cinematography approaches virtual reality, pushing the boundaries of VR film. The Deserted stripped away traditional...

Letters from the South (2013)
Six filmmakers present six short films about the experiences of Chinese immigrants. Shot across Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore and Myanmar, the...

Flowers in the Mirror, Moon in the Water (2009)
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...

Your Face (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...

Sand (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...

Days (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.

My New Friends (1995)
Tsai interrupted his pre-production for The River to make this pioneering documentary for Taiwan's nascent AIDS-awareness campaign. Ignoring...

Abyssal Spider (2020)
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...

Looking for Tsai (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...

The Rope Curse 2 (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...

Sunny Doll (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,...

Come and Go (2021)
Tourists, foreigners and outcasts converge on the streets of Osaka in this sprawling ensemble drama by Japan-based, Malaysia-born filmmaker Lim Kah...

Grit (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. Croc’s...

Sichuan Culinary Chronicles: In Four Chapters (1970)
The film continues to blend myths, legends, literature and folktales to further expand his narrative of history and weird tales. The story, set in...

Fuxi (1970)
Divided into four parts, each section representing both a festivity and specific state between life and death, Fuxi uses food as a throughline to...

Twisted Strings (2022)
Leading Taiwan cinema names Hou Hsiao-hsien (“The Assassin,” “The Puppetmaster”) and Lee Kang-sheng (“Days,”...

Twisted Strings (2022)
Leading Taiwan cinema names Hou Hsiao-hsien (“The Assassin,” “The Puppetmaster”) and Lee Kang-sheng (“Days,”...

Twisted Strings (2022)
Leading Taiwan cinema names Hou Hsiao-hsien (“The Assassin,” “The Puppetmaster”) and Lee Kang-sheng (“Days,”...

Sisyphus (2020)
Ex-cop Zhang Haifeng discovers new clues about his daughter's death while investigating a serial murder case. After a fatal encounter, he wakes up in...

Golden Horse Awards (1962)
The Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards (Chinese: 台北金馬影展; pinyin: Táiběi Jīnmǎ Yǐngzhǎn; Pe̍h-ōe-jī:...