Li Tian-Lu

AKA: Tianlu Li, Tian-Lu Li, Li Tien-Lu

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1910-12-02

Taipei, Taiwan

Biography

Li Tien-lu was a Taiwanese puppeteer. He is best known to the international audience for playing principal characters in several Taiwanese films directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien.

Crew Roles

Emperor's Adventures in Hsi Hu

Writer

The Puppetmaster

Story

Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {9}

Grandpa

1986-05-09 7.6

Dust in the Wind

A-yuan and A-yun are both from the small mining town of Jio-fen. They move to Taipei, where A-yuan is an apprentice by day and goes to night school, and A-yun works as a helper at a tailors. Everyone ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

Self

1993-12-08 6.6

The Puppetmaster

Master puppeteer Li Tien-lu recalls his life in Japanese-occupied Taiwan during the first half of the 20th century. ...

Genre :Drama, War, History

1995-01-01 0

Modern Republic

The lives of three young Chinese immigrants in Los Angeles. ...

Genre :Comedy

1994-12-31 0

Emperor's Adventures in Hsi Hu

The story of frivolous and lecherous emperor Qianlong's search for a morally upstanding person is told in a fashion that smartly fuses the puppet proscenium with the conventions of cinematic language. ...

Genre :Documentary

Pig Owner

1996-05-13 6.8

Goodbye South, Goodbye

In this portrait of small-time hoods rendered in rhythm-of-life anecdotal detail, Gao is the leader of a circle of layabouts including his sidekick, Flathead, and their girlfriends, Pretzel and Ling. ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

Grandfather

1987-08-22 7

Daughter of the Nile

Lin Hsiao-yang tries to keep her family together while working as a waitress at Kentucky Fried Chicken and going to night school. With no mother and her father currently working out of town, it is up ...

Genre :Drama, Crime

Old Man

1992-07-03 7.75

Dust of Angels

A-Guo and A-Dou are two teenagers living in an industrial town in Taiwan, who fight, loaf, and cause trouble all day and hang out with Jie, a young gangster. When Jie's gangland patron is gunned down, ...

Genre :Action, Crime, Drama

1997-09-28 7.7

Such a life

'Such a Life' is quite a sad film. It is set in the sixties, in a village on the west coast of Taiwan, where many are succumbing to 'black foot', a disease caused by drinking contaminated well water. ...

Genre :Drama, History

Ah Lu

1989-10-21 7.5

A City of Sadness

The story of a family embroiled in the "White Terror," the Kuomintang government's anti-communist political repression that was wrought on the Taiwanese people from 1947-1987. ...