Lee Kang-sheng

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).

Known For

Golden Horse Awards

Self

Come and Go

Xiao Kang

To Each His Own Cinema

(segment: It’s A Dream)

The Tenants Downstairs

Guo Li

Rebels of the Neon God

Hsiao-kang

The Wayward Cloud

Taiwanese Porn Actor

Vive L'Amour

Hsiao-kang

What Time Is It There?

Hsiao-Kang

Filmography

Year	Movie	Role
2025	Absence	Han Jiangyu
2025	Blue Sun Palace	Cheung
2024	Sonata of Wave	Dongbin
2024	Stranger Eyes	Lao Wu
2024	Black Ox
2024	Abiding Nowhere
2023	Everything Is Unknown	Hua Qi
2023	Lost in Forest	Sheng
2022	Hotel Iris	Boatman
2022	Fantasy · World	Tang Shicheng
2022	The Wind Will Say
2022	Where	Monk
2022	Making-of du tournage de Tsai Ming-Liang au Centre Pompidou
2021	Wandering
2021	Absence	Han Jiangyu
2021	Days	Kang
2021	Come and Go	Xiao Kang
2021	Grit	Chief Liu
2020	Abyssal Spider	Ship's Captain
2020	The Rope Curse 2	Huo-ge
2018	The Deserted
2018	Your Face	Self
2018	Sand	Self
2016	The Tenants Downstairs	Guo Li
2016	One & Zero
2016	Autumn Days
2016	Single Belief
2015	No No Sleep	Monk
2015	Sashimi	Chen-ming
2015	Afternoon	Self
2015	Beautiful 2015
2014	Stray Dogs	Father
2014	Journey to the West	Monk
2013	Past Present	Self
2013	Walking on Water
2013	Letters from the South	Xiao Kang (segment "Walking on Water")
2012	Walker	Monk
2012	Transformation	Himself
2012	No Form
2012	Beautiful 2012
2012	Sleepwalk
2012	Diamond Sutra
2009	Face	Kang / The Director
2009	Flowers in the Mirror, Moon in the Water	Self / Hsiao Kang - the director / St. John Baptist
2008	Sleeping on Dark Waters
2007	Help Me, Eros	Ah Jie
2007	To Each His Own Cinema	(segment: It’s A Dream)
2006	I Don't Want to Sleep Alone	Hsiao-Kang
2005	The Wayward Cloud	Taiwanese Porn Actor
2003	Goodbye, Dragon Inn	Projectionist
2002	The Skywalk Is Gone	Hsiao-Kang
2002	A Way We Go	Ah Hui
2002	Looking for Tsai	Himself
2001	What Time Is It There?	Hsiao-Kang
2001	The Moon Is Gone
2000	Sunny Doll
1999	The Hole	The Man Upstairs
1999	Ordinary Heroes	Lee Siu Tung
1997	The River	Hsiao-Kang
1997	Sweet Degeneration	Chun-sheng
1996	A Drifting Life	Ku-cheng
1995	Vive L'Amour	Hsiao-kang
1995	My New Friends
1994	Rebels of the Neon God	Hsiao-kang
1991	Boys
	Sichuan Culinary Chronicles: In Four Chapters
	The Rope Curse 4
	Night Journey

Year	TV Show	Role
2022	Twisted Strings
2022	Twisted Strings	Yong
2022	Twisted Strings	Tang Niansheng
2020	Sisyphus	Jiang Sen
2019	Three Piglets	Self
1962	Golden Horse Awards	Self