The Puppetmaster (film)
7.6 /10 1 Votes
Director Hou Hsiao-Hsien Music director Bobby Chen, Hongda Zhang Duration Country Taiwan | 7.4/10 IMDb Genre Biography, Drama, War Screenplay Chu Tien-wen, Wu Nien-jen | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Language Mandarin/Taiwanese/Japanese Writer Chu Tien-wen , Wu Nien-jen Release date 1993 Cast Tianlu Li (Himself), Giong Lim (Li Tianly (young) (as Chung Lin)), Ming Hwa Bai (Ong Hsiu (grandmother)), Fue Choung Cheng (Li Tien Lu adolescent), Tsai Chen-Nan Similar movies Ted 2 , Seed of Chucky , Child's Play 2 , Ted , Pinocchio , Bride of Chucky | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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.
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Many consider The Puppetmaster a masterpiece of world cinema. In the British Film Institute's 2012 Sight & Sound poll, seven critics and three directors named it one of the greatest films ever made.
Plot
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).
Awards
The film won the Jury Prize at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival and the FIPRESCI Prize at Istanbul International Film Festival, though the prize at Cannes was due largely to the single-handed efforts of Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami.
References
The Puppetmaster (film) WikipediaThe Puppetmaster (film) IMDb The Puppetmaster (film) themoviedb.org