Lee Kang-sheng
Lee Kang-sheng | |
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![]() Lee Kang-sheng in 2018 | |
Born | (1968-10-21) October 21, 1968 (age 55) Taipei, Taiwan |
Occupation(s) | Film actor, director, screenwriter |
Years active | 1989- |
Awards | Golden Horse Awards – Best Actor 2013 - Stray Dogs |
Lee Kang-sheng (Chinese: 李康生; pinyin: Lǐ Kāngshēng; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Lí Khong-seng) (born 21 October 1968) is a Taiwanese actor, film director and screenwriter. He has appeared in all of Tsai Ming-liang's feature films. Lee's directorial efforts include The Missing in 2003 and Help Me Eros in 2007.
Career
Lee was working at an arcade when he was asked by Tsai Ming-liang to act in his TV film Boys.[1] This started a working relationship that has lasted over 30 years; Tsai has said that he would never make another movie without Lee.[2]
Awards
Lee has received recognition for his acting by winning the Best Actor Award at the 2002 Cinemanila International Film Festival for What Time Is It There? and getting nominated for a Golden Horse Award in 1994 for Vive L'Amour.
Lee won several awards with his directorial debut, The Missing. At the 2004 Rotterdam International Film Festival, he won the KNF Award, the NETPAC Award and the Tiger Award. The film also won the New Currents Award at the 2004 Pusan International Film Festival, a special mention at the Ljubljana International Film Festival and the City of Athens Award at the Athens International Film Festival.[3]
His second directorial effort, Help Me Eros in 2007, was nominated for a Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. It won a special jury award at the 2007 World Film Festival of Bangkok.
Filmography
As actor
Year | Title | Role |
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1991 | Boys | |
1992 | Rebels of the Neon God | Hsiao-kang |
1994 | Vive L'Amour | Hsiao-kang |
1996 | A Drifting Life | |
1997 | Sweet Degeneration | Chun-sheng |
1997 | The River | Hsiao-kang |
1998 | The Hole | The Man Upstairs |
1999 | Ordinary Heroes | Tung |
2000 | Sunny Doll | |
2001 | What Time Is It There? | Hsiao-kang |
2002 | A Way We Go | Ah Hui |
2002 | The Skywalk Is Gone (short) | Hsiao-kang |
2003 | Goodbye, Dragon Inn | Projectionist |
2005 | The Wayward Cloud | Hsiao-kang |
2006 | I Don't Want to Sleep Alone | Hsiao-kang |
2007 | Help Me Eros | Ah Jie |
2009 | Face | Kang, the director |
2013 | Stray Dogs | Hsiao-kang |
2014 | Journey to the West | Monk |
2015 | No No Sleep (short) | |
2015 | Sashimi | |
2016 | The Tenants Downstairs | Guo Li |
2018 | The Deserted | |
2019 | Your Face | |
2020 | Days | Kang |
2023 | Kuro no Ushi | |
2024 | Abiding Nowhere |
As screenwriter-director
Year | Title |
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2003 | The Missing |
2007 | Help Me Eros |
2009 | Taipei 24H |
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References
External links
- Kang-sheng Lee at IMDb
- Lee Kang-Sheng at AllMovie
- Kang-sheng Lee at Rotten Tomatoes
- The Missing: An Interview with Lee Kang-sheng at Senses of Cinema
- The Unprofessional: An Interview with Lee Kang-sheng at UCLA Asia Institute
- Conversation with Tsai Ming-liang and Lee Kang-sheng at Asia Society
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- Wang Yin (1962)
- Tang Ching (1963)
- Ko Hsiang-ting (1965)
- Zhao Lei (1966)
- Ou Wei (1967)
- Tsui Fu-sheng (1968)
- Peter Yang (1969)
- Ko Hsiang-ting (1970)
- Wang Yin (1971)
- Ou Wei (1972)
- Peter Yang (1973)
- Charlie Chin (1975)
- Chang Feng (1976)
- Charlie Chin (1977)
- Chin Han (1978)
- Ko Chun-hsiung (1979)
- Wang Kuan-hsiung (1980)
- Alan Tam (1981)
- Eddie Chan (1982)
- Sun Yueh (1983)
- Danny Lee (1984)
- Chow Yun-fat (1985)
- Ti Lung (1986)
- Chow Yun-fat (1987)
- Alex Man (1988)
- Chen Sung-young (1989)
- Tony Leung Ka-fai (1990)
- Sihung Lung (1991)
- Jackie Chan (1992)
- Jackie Chan (1993)
- Tony Leung Chiu-wai (1994)
- Lin Yang (1995)
- Xia Yu (1996)
- Tse Kwan-ho (1997)
- Lopsang (1998)
- Ko Chun-hsiung (1999)
- Francis Ng (2000)
- Liu Ye (2001)
- Leon Lai (2002)
- Tony Leung Chiu-wai (2003)
- Andy Lau (2004)
- Aaron Kwok (2005)
- Aaron Kwok (2006)
- Tony Leung Chiu-wai (2007)
- Zhang Hanyu (2008)
- Huang Bo and Nick Cheung (2009)
- Ethan Juan (2010)
- Andy Lau (2011)
- Sean Lau (2012)
- Lee Kang-sheng (2013)
- Chen Jianbin (2014)
- Feng Xiaogang (2015)
- Fan Wei (2016)
- Tu Men (2017)
- Xu Zheng (2018)
- Chen Yi-wen (2019)
- Morning Mo (2020)
- Chang Chen (2021)
- Anthony Wong (2022)
- Wu Kang-ren (2023)
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