Li Tian-Lu
December 2, 1910 · 115 years old
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.
Known For
4 titles
A City of Sadness
The story of a family embroiled in the "White Terror" that was wrought on the Taiwanese people by the Kuomintang government after their arrival from mainland China in the late 1940s.
Dust in the Wind
A young couple leave their mining town home for Taipei where they struggle to eke out a living in an industrial wasteland.
Daughter of the Nile
The eldest daughter of a broken and troubled family works to keep the family together and look after her younger siblings, who are slipping into a life of crime.
Dust of Angels
Beigang teens A-guo and A-douzi fight, loaf, and cause trouble all day. One day, they accidentally grab a bag with guns and drugs, and head for Taipei looking for Brother Jie, a friend in the underworld there.