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Release Date: 1993

Cast: Cheng Kuei-chung, Li Tien-lu, Ming Hwa Bai, Fue Choung Cheng, Hung Liu, Li Tian-lu, Lim Giong

Categories: Movies, World Cinema, War Film, Biographical Film, Drama Film, Leisure Arts, Biography

The Puppetmaster (Chinese: 戲夢人生; pinyin: Xi meng ren sheng) is a 1993 Taiwanese film directed by Hou Hsiao-Hsien. Based on the memoirs of Li Tian-lu, Taiwan’s most celebrated puppeteer, this story covers the years from Li’s birth in 1909 to the end of Japan’s fifty-year occupation of Taiwan in 1945. It tells the story of Li Tian-lu who becomes a master puppeteer but is faced with demands to turn his skills to propaganda during the Japanese occupation of Taiwan in World War II. This film is the second in Hou's trilogy of historical films that include A City of Sadness (1989)... MORE

The Puppetmaster (Chinese: 戲夢人生; pinyin: Xi meng ren sheng) is a 1993 Taiwanese film directed by Hou Hsiao-Hsien. Based on the memoirs of Li Tian-lu, Taiwan’s most celebrated puppeteer, this story covers the years from Li’s birth in 1909 to the end of Japan’s fifty-year occupation of Taiwan in 1945. It tells the story of Li Tian-lu who becomes a master puppeteer but is faced with demands to turn his skills to propaganda during the Japanese occupation of Taiwan in World War II. This film is the second in Hou's trilogy of historical films that include A City of Sadness (1989) and Good Men, Good Women (1995). The film won the Jury Prize at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival and the FIPRESCI Prize at Istanbul International Film Festival. LESS