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The Puppetmaster (film)

The Puppetmaster
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Chinese戲夢人生
Literal meaningDream life
Hanyu PinyinXìmèng rénshēng
Directed byHou Hsiao-hsien
Written byChu T’ien-wen
Wu Nien-jen
Produced byChiu Fu-sheng
StarringLim Giong
Li Tian-lu
Tsai Chen-nan
Narrated byLi Tian-lu
CinematographyMark Lee Ping-bin
Music byChen Ming-chang
Release date
  • 1993 (1993)
Running time
142 minutes
CountryTaiwan
LanguageHokkien

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.

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.[1]

  1. ^ ""Puppetmaster, The" (1993)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on August 20, 2012. Retrieved June 3, 2015.

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