Lee Kang-sheng

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. He also makes his way through the shadows of trees and houses. He sets foot in the train station, the church and the museum. The sun rises and sets again. The walker passes through Washington, D.C. Another stranger is also on the move in the city. We are unsure whether or not he is following the walker.

After ten years in prison, Han Jiangyu returns to Hainan Island. Housing construction is booming, his childhood friend is now rich. Searching for traces of the familiar, Jiangyu meets his old love who now has a daughter.

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 Linsen North Road, his old turf, finding it familiar yet perplexing after being away for so many years. Shaou is now a mob boss with his own turf. When the son of Seagull’s patron, Mr. Xiao, is murdered, the evidence points to up-and-coming mobster Monkey. Shauo tries to ambush Monkey and fails, getting shot by the drugged up gangster instead. Asheng, who initially refused to help Shaou, is now filled with rage and decides to avenge his friend.

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 Linsen North Road, his old turf, finding it familiar yet perplexing after being away for so many years. Shaou is now a mob boss with his own turf. When the son of Seagull’s patron, Mr. Xiao, is murdered, the evidence points to up-and-coming mobster Monkey. Shauo tries to ambush Monkey and fails, getting shot by the drugged up gangster instead. Asheng, who initially refused to help Shaou, is now filled with rage and decides to avenge his friend.

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

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.

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 was a rookie and mentored by a senior lawyer, Tu. Young and ambitious as Zhang was, his outstanding performance successfully helped Tang exonerated from the charge. However, the brutal cross-examination on the victim inevitably became his nightmare. After so many years, tormented by guilt, Zhang finally has the opportunity to atone for his mistakes and avenge the girl he loved. Challenged by Tu and Tang, he decides to pursue justice at any cost.

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). One night, Mari hears the cries of a woman from the upper floors. Heading up to investigate, she witnesses a distraught woman in a red camisole dress escape an impeccably dressed but violent man (NAGASE Masatoshi) whose cold voice is entrancing. Mari’s initial shock turns into a strange fascination which drives her to follow the man to discover more about him. He is a translator who lives on an isolated island one can only reach by boat and rumours swirl around him and recent murders. The closer she gets to the man, the more a hidden layer of Mari’s personality awakens as she allows herself to be engulfed by his strange passions…

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.

Tourists, foreigners and outcasts converge on the streets of Osaka in this sprawling ensemble drama by Japan-based, Malaysia-born filmmaker Lim Kah Wai. His eighth feature explores the lesser-known aspects of the Asian melting pot city through the eyes and experiences of a dozen characters who struggle to find their place in society: among them a Nepali refugee with dreams of opening a restaurant, a Burmese student struggling to make ends meet while working two jobs, and a Taiwanese sex tourist who travels to meet his favorite adult video actress.

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 in this offbeat romantic comedy from director-cinematographer Chen Ta-pu. Ko plays Croc, 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 latest task is to deal with Ping, a headstrong farmer who adamantly refuses to give up her land for redevelopment. As Croc and Ping develop feelings for each other, Croc is determined to become a better man and hang on to his newfound happiness — even if it means defying his own mob.

After ten years in prison, Han Jiangyu returns to Hainan Island. Housing construction is booming, his childhood friend is now rich. Searching for traces of the familiar, Jiangyu meets his old love who now has a daughter.

Kang vive solo en una casa grande. A través de los ventanales, mira hacia los árboles golpeados por el viento y la lluvia. Siente un dolor extraño de origen desconocido que apenas puede soportar y que afecta a todo su cuerpo. Non vive en un pequeño apartamento en Bangkok donde prepara platos tradicionales de su pueblo natal. Cuando Kang se reúne con Non en un cuarto de hotel, ambos hombres comparten su soledad.

La tripulación de una embarcación pesquera taiwanesa deberá enfrentarse a dos desafíos mortales: Una tormenta en lo más oscuro del océano, y a una araña acuática gigantesca que buscará devorarlos

Jia-min, que nació sensible a lo paranormal, intenta convocar a "Yi-A-Gu" con dos serpentinas. Huo-ge ayuda a Jia-min a dominar el espíritu cuando la situación se sale de control. Huo-ge posee poderes sobrenaturales, pero perdió su voluntad de exorcizar demonios durante una batalla con el demonio tailandés hace cinco años. A medida que continúa la ola de suicidios, la aldea se ve sumida en el caos. Está por comenzar otra batalla.

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.

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. In the constant passage of time, the Zen-like footsteps of the Walker has finally allowed us to see the Pacific Ocean, the open sky, the seagulls, the black sand, an eel catching settlement that arose in the cold winter rain, the twisting branches of the lintou trees, flotsam piled up like mountains, and a newly constructed cement house, which seems to offer a temporary place of rest for the Walker. "Sand" premiered together with the opening of the Zhuangwei Dune Visitor Center.

Tsai Ming-Liang, the artisan of cinematography approaches virtual reality, pushing the boundaries of VR film. The Deserted stripped away traditional film techniques and is presented in 360 degrees, like a theatre. The viewer is placed in the scene and is allowed to look freely at the construction of the environment. And immersed in the handcraft of the scenes.

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 asked Lee if he wanted to be in his film, and Lee's answer changed the course of his own life forever. Now Lee returns to where his career began to shoot a film about himself.

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 asked Lee if he wanted to be in his film, and Lee's answer changed the course of his own life forever. Now Lee returns to where his career began to shoot a film about himself.

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.

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. An incredible story is about to unfold as they start their lives in the same building.

This is the festival trailer for Viennale - Vienna International Film Festival 2015. The trailer will be shown in over 100 cinemas in Austria and Germany and during the festival in several cinemas in Vienna.

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 Ming-Liang and his actor Lee Kang-sheng confess and put on stage a pièce in which attention and slowness are in tune with the rhythm of memory. The unveiling of Tsai Ming-liang’s filmmaking: from Stray Dogs to the most intimate notes of the director-actor relationship.

Chen-Ming (Lee Kang-sheng) es un cocinero divorciado y con un hijo que lleva un restaurante de Sushi en Taiwan, y que vive obsesionado con la AV-Star Asano Natsumi (Yui Hatano) al estar convencido éste de que la misma es en realidad su ex-mujer que lo abandono 8 años atras, y a la que continuamente le envia cartas tratandola como tal. Hasta que un dia y para escapar de sus problemas personales, Yui Hatano decide alojarse en su restaurante durante unos dias.

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 Shibuya station in Tokyo as his main filming location and invited the famous Japanese actor Masanobu Ando to appear alongside Lee Kang-Sheng. They sleep separately at a capsule hotel and cleanse themselves at a public bath. Their fatigued bodies yearn for sleep but restless minds keep them for falling asleep. "No No Sleep" won the Best Director Award at the Taipei Film Festival.

Harto del ajetreo de la vida moderna y del estrés continuo, un hombre de familia decide cambiar radicalmente de hogar y de estilo de vida. Su vida debe dar un vuelco y siente que la única manera de poder educar a sus dos hijos cómo a él le gustaría es llevarlos al corazón de Taipei.

Harto del ajetreo de la vida moderna y del estrés continuo, un hombre de familia decide cambiar radicalmente de hogar y de estilo de vida. Su vida debe dar un vuelco y siente que la única manera de poder educar a sus dos hijos cómo a él le gustaría es llevarlos al corazón de Taipei.

In 2014, Tsai Ming-Liang was invited to make a film for the MarseilleFID, Marseille International Film Festival. Since he was not familiar with Marseille, he decided to make a film as tourist, capturing the beautiful Mediterranean sunshine in the late summer of that year. He also invited famous French actor, Denis Lavant, to appear alongside Lee Kang-Sheng playing Xuanzang. "Journey to the West" was invited to be the opening short film at the Berlin International Film Festival the same year.

CARTAS DEL SUR es una colección de seis cortometrajes sobre el tema de la diáspora china en Asia Sur - Oriental . Cada película se presenta como una letra que representa los sentimientos y las emociones de los cineastas hacia su patria de origen , China . Los seis cineastas son Aditya Assarat ( Tailandia ) , Royston Tan ( Singapur) , Midi Zhao ( Birmania ) , Sun Koh (Singapur ) , Tan Chui Mui ( Malasia) , y Tsai Ming Liang ( Malasia) .

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 Ming-Liang returned to his hometown in Kuching, Malaysia and made a "Walker" film at his childhood home, "Walking on Water". The seven-storey flat which contained the happy memories of his childhood is now occupied by strangers. His old neighbour, an older girl who used to bathe and feed him when he was a child, has also grown old.

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 very personal bond with his subject, and also found many of Tsai Ming-liang’s colleagues prepared to complete this portrait of a quiet yet outspoken artist.

In 2012, the Hong Kong International Film Festival invited Tsai Ming-Ling to make the opening short film. Having grown up with Hong Kong's popular culture, Tsai Ming-Liang decided to pay homage by making a "Walker" film, contrasting the Walker's slowness with the frenzied pace of Hong Kong's cosmopolitan life. The film ends with a song by Hong Kong actor and singer Samuel Hui, who was Tsai Ming-Liang's idol during his youth. The film was invited to be the closing short film for the Cannes Film Festival in 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. Using the space at their preview exhibition in Taiwan, Tsai Ming-Liang made two short films, "Sleepwalk" and "Diamond Sutra", using the "Walker" concept. "Diamond Sutra" was later selected to be the opening short film for the Venise Film Festival. Tsai-Ming Liang said that gazing at the steam rising from a rice cooker reminded him of his mother's face as she laid dying, exhaling her final breath.

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

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. Lamenting the transient nature of theater, Tsai decided to make a movie out of this slow-walking performance, "No Form", the first of his "Walker Films" series.

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.

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. Well-known director Tsai Ming-liang makes a rare appearance visiting a late night coffee shop. Taipei 24H is a contemporary urban chronicle of a city rarely at sleep.

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. Well-known director Tsai Ming-liang makes a rare appearance visiting a late night coffee shop. Taipei 24H is a contemporary urban chronicle of a city rarely at sleep.

Un director taiwanés (Kang-sheng) prepara en París una delirante adaptación de la espeluznante historia de Salomé (Laetitia Casta), la hijastra de Herodes que exigió la cabeza de Juan el Bautista (Léaud). Ardant interpreta a la productora del proyecto, y Moreau es la musa inspiradora que aparece en sus sueños.

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 the shooting of his movie Visage, which itself is also a movie within a movie.

Having lost all his money in the stock market, a depressed man falls in love with a woman over a suicide helpline.

Having lost all his money in the stock market, a depressed man falls in love with a woman over a suicide helpline.

Having lost all his money in the stock market, a depressed man falls in love with a woman over a suicide helpline.

To celebrate its 60th anniversary, the Cannes Film Festival invited around thirty filmmakers to create three-minute short films to compose the collective film Chacun son cinema. Tsai Ming-liang proposed a twinned piece with his feature Goodbye, Dragon Inn, an exploration of the movie theater as a public space and collective experience. Shortly after, Tsai put on this new version of the piece, twenty minutes longer, which was presented at the Venice Biennale.

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. Rawang lovingly nurses him on a mattress he found. When he is almost healed, Hsiao-kang meets the waitress Chyi. His love for Rawang is put to the test.

En un tiempo de fuerte escasez de agua, los espacios televisivos se dedican a instruir acerca de los diversos métodos para ahorrarla al tiempo que promueven la ingestión de zumo de sandía en su lugar. Sin embargo, todo el mundo tiene sus propias soluciones cuando se trata de encontrar agua. Shiang-Chyi coge botellas vacías y las llena con agua robada de los aseos públicos; mientras tanto, Hsiao-Kang, ahora actor pornográfico, trepa al tejado en plena noche para bañarse con el agua que pueda lograr en los depósitos. La supervivencia es dura, pero todavía lo es más soportar la soledad. Cada uno de nosotros es una nube silente, que pende solitaria sin jamás tocar a los otros. Cierto día, Shiang-Chyi halla una sandía y más tarde se encuentra a Hsiao-Kang en el parque. Ella recuerda que le había comprado un reloj de pulsera. No le había visto desde aquella transacción, y se pregunta qué está haciendo en su inmueble. Se enamoran. Francia Taiwan

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. The consequent bullying and ostracism by schoolmates exacerbates the boy's sense of victimhood. His mother, meanwhile, runs a help-line for parents with comparable problems.

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. The consequent bullying and ostracism by schoolmates exacerbates the boy's sense of victimhood. His mother, meanwhile, runs a help-line for parents with comparable problems.

La película tiene lugar en un viejo cine de Taipei en el que se va a proyectar la épica película de artes marciales de 1967 dirigida por King Hu, Dragon Inn. No será una proyección más, será la última antes de que se cierren sus puertas para siempre.

A grandmother is looking for her grandson, a teenager for his grandfather.

A grandmother is looking for her grandson, a teenager for his grandfather.

A grandmother is looking for her grandson, a teenager for his grandfather.

A young woman wandering around meets a young man going to a casting call for a pornographic film.

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.

Un vendedor de relojes deambula por las calles de Taipei. Su padre acaba de morir, su madre está enferma y él se encuentra inmerso en una aburrida y deprimente vida. Fortuitamente, un día se topa con una muchacha que se dirige a Paris y quiere comprarle un reloj que le de la hora de las dos ciudades. Inmediatamente se establece una fuerte conexión entre ellos.

Un vendedor de relojes deambula por las calles de Taipei. Su padre acaba de morir, su madre está enferma y él se encuentra inmerso en una aburrida y deprimente vida. Fortuitamente, un día se topa con una muchacha que se dirige a Paris y quiere comprarle un reloj que le de la hora de las dos ciudades. Inmediatamente se establece una fuerte conexión entre ellos.

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. But on the way, he was caught in a traffic jam of people gathered at another god’s festival. A man in a trance, flashy karaoke girls on stage, a power black-out. During his diversion, the camera discovers fish and underground passages

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. Since she loaths math, her teacher orders Ke-Lei, student teacher from another class, to tutor her.

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. The film is based upon true stories.

Quedan siete días para el siglo XXI: En algún sitio de Taiwán la lluvia no para de caer; una misteriosa enfermedad alcanza dimensiones insospechadas y el gobierno decreta una cuarentena, ordenando a la gente que abandone el lugar, pero algunos no desean hacerlo. En un edificio, un hombre se despierta al oír el timbre de su puerta; es un fontanero que va a arreglar una gotera; pero en vez de resolver el problema, hace un agujero de considerables dimensiones, algo que aprovecha para conocer mejor a su vecina de abajo, una mujer que sueña que canta y baila en los brazos de alguien...

Retrato de tres personajes víctimas de la soledad y la incomunicación: un joven con dolor en el cuello, un hombre que frecuenta saunas gays, y una mujer ascensorista, cuyo amante trafica con películas pornográficas.

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. As with A Drifting Life and Murmur of Youth, Lin’s new film delicately unfolds, gradually building to a climax of stunning emotional reverberations. Drawn from a particularly painful episode in the director’s past, Sweet Degeneration delves into the uneasy bonds a brother and sister have with each other and the people around them.

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. He develops a relationship with a widow but despite their intimacy, he refuses to remarry.

Una joven pareja, May y Ah-jong, utiliza un apartamento para sus relaciones. Sin embargo, una tercera persona, un tímido homosexual escondido en el mismo apartamento les espía creando un triangulo bizarro de amor.

Tsai interrupted his pre-production for The River to make this pioneering documentary for Taiwan's nascent AIDS-awareness campaign. Ignoring instructions to 'play down the gay angle', he centres the film on his own very candid conversations with two HIV+ young men. Sadly the identities of the interviewees have to be concealed, and so the freewheeling camerawork focuses most often on Tsai himself; but the sense of rapport between the director and his 'new friends' is palpable and very moving, even to Western viewers already only too familiar with these issues.

El joven Hsiao Kang, excéntrico e introvertido, abandona la aldea donde vive con sus padres y se traslada a la deslumbrante Taipei. Allí se ve arrastrado a la vida en las calles de la ciudad y sus salas de máquinas. Muy pronto su vagabundeo le hará encontrarse por azar con Ah Tze, un joven delincuente que corteja a la bella Ah Kuei, que trabaja en la sala de patinaje sobre hielo. Hsiao Kang verá su vida perversa e indisolublemente ligada a la de Ah Tze y su novia Ah Kuei, a los que acechará desde las sombras.

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

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 cleaners in a "love hotel" and send the kids out to work as ticket scalpers, block-buying seats for hit movies like A City of Sadness and reselling them at a profit. Tragedy strikes when the daughter Mei-Hsueh flirts with the idea of prostituting herself and changes her mind at the last moment, leaving her first client with injuries that put him on the critical list. The focus throughout is on the son Ah Tong, who has a latent talent as a writer that is never going to flower.

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. Pan Yiming returns to the small village in southern China, where he founds out his former lovers, daughters he has never met, and some residual memories and intricate secrets.