Lee Kang-sheng

Lee Kang-sheng

1968-10-12 Taipei, Taiwan 76 Credits

Biography

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).

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Blue Sun Palace

Blue Sun Palace

2025

as Cheung

6.0
Acting

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...

Stranger Eyes

Stranger Eyes

2024

as Lao Wu

7.1
Acting

After the mysterious disappearance of their baby daughter, a young couple receives strange videos and realizes someone has been filming their daily li...

Black Ox

Black Ox

2024

Acting

In the Meiji Period, in the 19th century Japan, transitioning towards modernization, BLACK OX explores the relationship between man and ox, inspired b...

Sonata of Wave

Sonata of Wave

2024

as Dongbin

2.0
Acting

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 ...

Abiding Nowhere

Abiding Nowhere

2024

7.0
Acting

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....

Everything Is Unknown

Everything Is Unknown

2023

as Hua Qi

1.5
Acting

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...

Absence

Absence

2023

as Han Jiangyu

7.0
Acting

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

Lost in Forest

Lost in Forest

2023

as Sheng

5.7
Acting

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...

Lost in Forest

Lost in Forest

2023

Executive Producer

5.7
Producing

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...

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

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

2022

Acting
Where

Where

2022

as Monk

Acting

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

Fantasy · World

Fantasy · World

2022

as Tang Shicheng

6.2
Acting

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...

The Wind Will Say

The Wind Will Say

2022

3.0
Acting

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 ...

Hotel Iris

Hotel Iris

2022

3.0
Acting

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...

Wandering

Wandering

2021

7.0
Acting

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...

Come and Go

Come and Go

2021

as Xiao Kang

Acting

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

Grit

Grit

2021

as Chief Liu

4.2
Acting

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 latest task is to ...

Absence

Absence

2021

as Han Jiangyu

Acting

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...

Days

Days

2021

as Kang

6.7
Acting

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.

Abyssal Spider

Abyssal Spider

2020

as Ship's Captain

4.7
Acting

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...

The Rope Curse 2

The Rope Curse 2

2020

as Huo-ge

5.6
Acting

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...

Your Face

Your Face

2018

as Self

6.9
Acting

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...

Sand

Sand

2018

as Self

Acting

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...

The Deserted

The Deserted

2018

7.0
Acting

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

Single Belief

Single Belief

2016

6.3
Acting

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 ...

Single Belief

Single Belief

2016

Director

6.3
Directing

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 ...

One & Zero

One & Zero

2016

Acting

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

Autumn Days

2016

Acting

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...

The Tenants Downstairs

The Tenants Downstairs

2016

as Guo Li

6.4
Acting

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...

Xiao Kang

2015

as Xiao Kang

4.8
Acting

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

Afternoon

Afternoon

2015

as Self

7.3
Acting

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...

Sashimi

Sashimi

2015

as Chen-ming

3.6
Acting

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...

No No Sleep

No No Sleep

2015

as Monk

6.3
Acting

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...

Journey to the West

Journey to the West

2014

as Monk

6.3
Acting

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...

Stray Dogs

Stray Dogs

2014

as Father

6.3
Acting

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...

Stray Dogs

Stray Dogs

2014

Producer

6.3
Producing

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...

Walking on Water

2013

7.5
Acting

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...

Letters from the South

Letters from the South

2013

as Xiao Kang (segment "Walking on Water")

5.4
Acting

Six filmmakers present six short films about the experiences of Chinese immigrants. Shot across Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore and Myanmar, the antholo...

Past Present

Past Present

2013

as Self

6.3
Acting

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 ...

Walker

Walker

2012

as Monk

6.1
Acting

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 cul...

Diamond Sutra

Diamond Sutra

2012

Acting

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...

Sleepwalk

Sleepwalk

2012

Acting

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

No Form

No Form

2012

Acting

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...

Beautiful 2012

Beautiful 2012

2012

5.2
Acting

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...

Transformation

Transformation

2012

as Himself

Acting

In order to recreate a photograph, two actors undergo a transformation.

Taipei 24H

Taipei 24H

2009

Director, Writer

6.0
Directing Writing

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-shen...

Face

Face

2009

as Kang / The Director

5.6
Acting

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

Flowers in the Mirror, Moon in the Water

2009

as Self / Hsiao Kang - the director / St. John Baptist

Acting

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...

Sleeping on Dark Waters

Sleeping on Dark Waters

2008

5.7
Acting

A behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of Ming-liang Tsai’s I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone.

To Each His Own Cinema

To Each His Own Cinema

2007

as (segment: It’s A Dream)

6.5
Acting

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...

Help Me, Eros

Help Me, Eros

2007

as Ah Jie

5.8
Acting

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

Help Me, Eros

Help Me, Eros

2007

Director, Writer

5.8
Directing Writing

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

It's a Dream

It's a Dream

2007

Acting

A man remembers bonding with his family and the small audience at a theatre in Kuala Lumpur.

I Don't Want to Sleep Alone

I Don't Want to Sleep Alone

2006

as Hsiao-Kang

6.6
Acting

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...

The Wayward Cloud

The Wayward Cloud

2005

as Taiwanese Porn Actor

5.9
Acting

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...

My Stinking Kid

My Stinking Kid

2004

Director, Screenplay

6.0
Directing Writing

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 am...

Goodbye, Dragon Inn

Goodbye, Dragon Inn

2003

as Projectionist

6.8
Acting

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

The Missing

The Missing

2003

Director, Writer

4.9
Directing Writing

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

The Skywalk Is Gone

The Skywalk Is Gone

2002

as Hsiao-Kang

5.9
Acting

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

Looking for Tsai

Looking for Tsai

2002

as Himself

Acting

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-...

A Way We Go

A Way We Go

2002

as 阿輝

Acting

For the past forty years, Ah Long has headed up a traditional Chinese musical troupe. But times are changing, and the troupe members leaving one by on...

What Time Is It There?

What Time Is It There?

2001

as Hsiao-Kang

7.0
Acting

A street vendor with a grim home-life forges a connection with a young woman on her way to Paris.

What Time Is It There?

What Time Is It There?

2001

Producer

7.0
Producing

A street vendor with a grim home-life forges a connection with a young woman on her way to Paris.

A Conversation with God

A Conversation with God

2001

Assistant Director

5.2
Directing

The original subject intended for this film was a spiritual medium who was unbelievably accurate. Tsai Ming-liang jumped on his 50cc motorbike, equipp...

The Moon is Gone

2001

Acting

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’s film...

Sunny Doll

Sunny Doll

2000

Acting

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...

Ordinary Heroes

Ordinary Heroes

1999

as Lee Siu Tung

7.1
Acting

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...

The Hole

The Hole

1999

as The Man Upstairs

7.0
Acting

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...

The River

The River

1997

as Hsiao-Kang

6.7
Acting

A young man develops severe neck pain after swimming in a polluted river for a movie shoot, but nobody can provide him any relief.

Sweet Degeneration

Sweet Degeneration

1997

as Chun-sheng

4.0
Acting

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

A Drifting Life

A Drifting Life

1996

as Ku-cheng

4.3
Acting

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...

Vive L'Amour

Vive L'Amour

1995

as Hsiao-kang

7.3
Acting

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...

My New Friends

My New Friends

1995

Acting

Tsai interrupted his pre-production for The River to make this pioneering documentary for Taiwan's nascent AIDS-awareness campaign. Ignoring instructi...

Rebels of the Neon God

Rebels of the Neon God

1994

as Hsiao-kang

7.3
Acting

In Taipei, revenge and love twist the paths of wayward youths.

Boys

Boys

1991

6.5
Acting

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

Sichuan Culinary Chronicles: In Four Chapters

Sichuan Culinary Chronicles: In Four Chapters

N/A

Acting

The film continues to blend myths, legends, literature and folktales to further expand his narrative of history and weird tales. The story, set in Sic...