Lee Kang-sheng

Lee Kang-sheng

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).

  • Title: Lee Kang-sheng
  • Popularity: 4.209
  • 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
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Lee Kang-sheng Movies

  • 2022
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    Hotel Iris

    Hotel Iris

    3.5 2022 HD

    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...

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  • 2001
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    What Time Is It There?

    What Time Is It There?

    7.024 2001 HD

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

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  • 1995
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    Vive L'Amour

    Vive L'Amour

    7.2 1995 HD

    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...

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  • 2006
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    I Don't Want to Sleep Alone

    I Don't Want to Sleep Alone

    6.6 2006 HD

    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....

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  • 2005
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    The Wayward Cloud

    The Wayward Cloud

    5.8 2005 HD

    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...

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  • 2013
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    Past Present

    Past Present

    6.3 2013 HD

    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...

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  • 2008
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    Sleeping on Dark Waters

    Sleeping on Dark Waters

    5.7 2008 HD

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

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  • 2024
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    Sonata of Wave

    Sonata of Wave

    2 2024 HD

    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...

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  • 1999
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    The Hole

    The Hole

    7 1999 HD

    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...

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  • 2009
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    Face

    Face

    5.7 2009 HD

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

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  • 1997
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    The River

    The River

    6.761 1997 HD

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

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  • 2007
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    Help Me, Eros

    Help Me, Eros

    5.8 2007 HD

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

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  • 2021
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    Wandering

    Wandering

    7 2021 HD

    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...

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  • 2003
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    Goodbye, Dragon Inn

    Goodbye, Dragon Inn

    6.725 2003 HD

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

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  • 1994
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    Rebels of the Neon God

    Rebels of the Neon God

    7.3 1994 HD

    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...

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  • 2012
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    Walker

    Walker

    6.1 2012 HD

    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...

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  • 2023
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    Everything Is Unknown

    Everything Is Unknown

    1.5 2023 HD

    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...

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  • 2024
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    Stranger Eyes

    Stranger Eyes

    7.5 2024 HD

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

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  • 2012
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    Transformation

    Transformation

    1 2012 HD

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

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  • 2024
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    Black Ox

    Black Ox

    1 2024 HD

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

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  • 2022
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    Fantasy · World

    Fantasy · World

    6 2022 HD

    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...

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  • 2021
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    Absence

    Absence

    1 2021 HD

    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...

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  • 2014
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    Stray Dogs

    Stray Dogs

    6.376 2014 HD

    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...

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  • 2012
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    No Form

    No Form

    1 2012 HD

    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...

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  • 2014
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    Journey to the West

    Journey to the West

    6.317 2014 HD

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

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  • 1996
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    A Drifting Life

    A Drifting Life

    4.3 1996 HD

    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...

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  • 1997
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    Sweet Degeneration

    Sweet Degeneration

    4 1997 HD

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

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  • 2002
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    The Skywalk Is Gone

    The Skywalk Is Gone

    5.9 2002 HD

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

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  • 2023
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    Lost in Forest

    Lost in Forest

    4 2023 HD

    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...

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  • 2012
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    Beautiful 2012

    Beautiful 2012

    5.2 2012 HD

    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...

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  • 2007
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    To Each His Own Cinema

    To Each His Own Cinema

    6.5 2007 HD

    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...

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  • 2001
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    The Moon is Gone

    The Moon is Gone

    1 2001 HD

    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...

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  • 1989
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    All the Corners of the World

    All the Corners of the World

    6.2 1989 HD

    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...

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  • 2024
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    Abiding Nowhere

    Abiding Nowhere

    7 2024 HD

    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...

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  • 2022
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    The Wind Will Say

    The Wind Will Say

    3 2022 HD

    Chen’s daughter is returning from the UK after her university graduation. On the weekend of her return, Chen accidentally learns her secret...

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  • 1991
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    Boys

    Boys

    6.5 1991 HD

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

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  • 2013
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    Walking on Water

    Walking on Water

    7.5 2013 HD

    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...

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  • 2015
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    No No Sleep

    No No Sleep

    6.2 2015 HD

    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...

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  • 2022
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    Where

    Where

    1 2022 HD

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

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  • 2012
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    Sleepwalk

    Sleepwalk

    1 2012 HD

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

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  • 2012
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    Diamond Sutra

    Diamond Sutra

    1 2012 HD

    In 2012, Taiwanese architects Michael Lin and Liao Wei-li invited Tsai Ming-Liang to create moving visuals for their exhibit at the Venise...

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  • 2023
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    Absence

    Absence

    7 2023 HD

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

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  • 2015
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    Sashimi

    Sashimi

    3.6 2015 HD

    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...

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  • 2015
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    Xiao Kang

    Xiao Kang

    4.8 2015 HD

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

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

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

    1 2022 HD

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  • 2025
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    Blue Sun Palace

    Blue Sun Palace

    1 2025 HD

    A sudden loss catalyzes an unlikely bond between two migrants in the Chinese community of Queens. Navigating lives far from home and the painstaking...

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  • 1999
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    Ordinary Heroes

    Ordinary Heroes

    7.1 1999 HD

    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...

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  • 2015
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    Afternoon

    Afternoon

    7.3 2015 HD

    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...

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  • 2016
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    The Tenants Downstairs

    The Tenants Downstairs

    6.3 2016 HD

    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...

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  • 2014
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    Le voyage en Occident

    Le voyage en Occident

    4.5 2014 HD

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  • 2016
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    One & Zero

    One & Zero

    1 2016 HD

    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...

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  • 2016
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    Autumn Days

    Autumn Days

    1 2016 HD

    A documentary about Nogami Teruyo, who for nearly half a century stood by Akira Kurosawa as a screenwriting collaborator, a script supervisor, and a...

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  • 2016
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    Single Belief

    Single Belief

    6.3 2016 HD

    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...

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  • 2018
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    The Deserted

    The Deserted

    7 2018 HD

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

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  • 2002
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    A Way We Go

    A Way We Go

    1 2002 HD

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  • 2013
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    Letters from the South

    Letters from the South

    5.4 2013 HD

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

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  • 2009
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    Flowers in the Mirror, Moon in the Water

    Flowers in the Mirror, Moon in the Water

    1 2009 HD

    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...

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  • 2018
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    Your Face

    Your Face

    6.9 2018 HD

    Composed of a series of portrait shots of mostly anonymous individuals, filmmaker Tsai Ming-liang's digital experiment turns the human face into a...

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  • 2018
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    Sand

    Sand

    1 2018 HD

    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...

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  • 2021
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    Days

    Days

    6.7 2021 HD

    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.

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  • 1995
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    My New Friends

    My New Friends

    1 1995 HD

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

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  • 2020
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    Abyssal Spider

    Abyssal Spider

    4.6 2020 HD

    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...

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  • 2002
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    Looking for Tsai

    Looking for Tsai

    1 2002 HD

    Human shortcomings in the pursuit of an idol. Two film school students travel to interview Taiwanese film director Tsai Ming-liang and actor Lee...

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  • 2020
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    The Rope Curse 2

    The Rope Curse 2

    5.457 2020 HD

    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...

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  • 2000
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    Sunny Doll

    Sunny Doll

    1 2000 HD

    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,...

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  • 2021
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    Come and Go

    Come and Go

    1 2021 HD

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

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  • 2021
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    Grit

    Grit

    4.2 2021 HD

    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...

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  • 1970
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    Sichuan Culinary Chronicles: In Four Chapters

    Sichuan Culinary Chronicles: In Four Chapters

    1 1970 HD

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

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  • 2003
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    The Missing

    The Missing

    4.9 2003 HD

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  • 2003
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    The Missing

    The Missing

    4.9 2003 HD

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  • 2001
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    What Time Is It There?

    What Time Is It There?

    7.024 2001 HD

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  • 2007
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    Help Me, Eros

    Help Me, Eros

    5.8 2007 HD

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  • 2007
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    Help Me, Eros

    Help Me, Eros

    5.8 2007 HD

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  • 2009
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    Taipei 24H

    Taipei 24H

    6 2009 HD

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  • 2009
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    Taipei 24H

    Taipei 24H

    6 2009 HD

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  • 2023
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    Lost in Forest

    Lost in Forest

    4 2023 HD

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  • 2004
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    My Stinking Kid

    My Stinking Kid

    6 2004 HD

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  • 2004
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    My Stinking Kid

    My Stinking Kid

    6 2004 HD

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  • 2016
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    Single Belief

    Single Belief

    6.3 2016 HD

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  • 2014
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    Stray Dogs

    Stray Dogs

    6.376 2014 HD

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  • 2001
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    A Conversation with God

    A Conversation with God

    5.2 2001 HD

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  • 2019
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    Three Piglets

    Three Piglets

    1 2019 HD

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  • 2022
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    Twisted Strings

    Twisted Strings

    7 2022 HD

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

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  • 2022
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    Twisted Strings

    Twisted Strings

    7 2022 HD

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

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  • 2022
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    Twisted Strings

    Twisted Strings

    7 2022 HD

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

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  • 2020
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    Sisyphus

    Sisyphus

    5.3 2020 HD

    Zhang Hai Feng quits his job as a police officer after the death of his daughter, Duo Duo. However one day a serial murder case reveals new-found...

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  • 1962
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    Golden Horse Awards

    Golden Horse Awards

    1 1962 HD

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

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