Taiwanese master of 布袋戏 glove puppetry who founded the 亦宛然 troupe and played himself in Hou Hsiao-hsien's film 戏梦人生 (The Puppetmaster, 1993), based on his life.
Hóu Xiàoxián de diànyǐng 《 Xì mèng Rénshēng 》 jiùshì Lǐ Tiānlù de zhuànjì.
Hou Hsiao-hsien's film 'The Puppetmaster' is a biography of Li Tianlu.
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He bore his mother's surname: his father, a 许, married into the Li family, so the eldest son became a 李. A French pupil, 班任旅, studied with him for about five years and founded the troupe 小宛然, 'Little Wanran', back in France.
