Li Tian-Lu
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Hou Hsiao-hsien devoted an entire film, The Puppetmaster (1993), to the life of Li Tien-lu (1910-1998), Taiwan's legendary glove puppeteer, covering his birth under Japanese occupation through 1945. Trained by his father from age eight, Li founded the troupe Almost Like Life in 1932 at 22; silenced by wartime censorship of Taiwanese Hokkien entertainment, it returned to the stage in 1941 and premi…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources
