Li Tianlu

Li Tian-lu is a principal character in the trilogy of historical films of Taiwanese film directed by Hou Hsiao-Hsien. The Puppetmaster tells the true story of Li’s life as a master puppeteer faced with demands to turn his skills to propaganda during the Japanese occupation of Taiwan in World War II. Li plays the patriarch of the extended Chinese family facing the events surrounding the film A City of Sadness (1989). Li plays the grandfather in Hou’s 1986 film Dust in the Wind and 1987 film Daughter of the Nile. —Wikipedia