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The Puppetmaster 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.
Puppet Master is an American horror film series which focuses on a group of anthropomorphic puppets animated by an Egyptian spell, each equipped with its own unique and dangerous device and are represented as heroes, antiheroes and antagonists. The franchise was created by Charles Band and Kenneth J. Hall.
Dec 8, 1993 · The Puppetmaster: Directed by Hsiao-Hsien Hou. With Tien-Lu Li, Giong Lim, Kuei-Chung Cheng, Chien-ru Huang. Puppeteer Li Tian-lu tells his life story, and through it, the story of Taiwan in the first half of the 20th century.
Puppet Master (also titled The Puppet Master and Puppetmaster) is a 1989 American horror film written by Charles Band and Kenneth J. Hall, and directed by David Schmoeller. The film stars Paul Le Mat, Irene Miracle, Matt Roe and Kathryn O'Reilly as psychics who are plotted against by a former colleague, using puppets animated by an Egyptian spell.
Story by Tokyo International Film Festival. In the first half of this century, young Li Tienlu joins a travelling puppet theatre and subsequently makes a career as one of Taiwan's leading puppeteers.
Brief Synopsis. Based on the memoirs of Taiwan-born Li Tien-lu, a famed exponent of traditional hand puppetry, whose early life is used as a mirror of Taiwan under Japanese colonial rule during the first half of this century.
Aug 12, 2019 · Three-pronged film: an innovative biopic, a work from a clear auteur, and a political/historical film marking the end of the 19 th century and a 50 year occupation of Japan in Taiwan. Tien-Lu Li plays himself in both voice-over and talking directly to the camera updating us on his history.
