"The Puppet Master" by Hou Hsiao-hsien won the Jury Prize in Cannes in 1993. [File photo]

About the film:

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. 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).

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