‘Blue Sun Palace’ Review: Lee Kang-sheng Leads a Touching Immigrant Drama Set in a New York City Massage Parlor

‘Blue Sun Palace’ Review: Lee Kang-sheng Leads a Touching Immigrant Drama Set in a New York City Massage Parlor

There are two extremely jarring elements to Constance Tsang’s “Blue Sun Palace,” an otherwise soft and immaculately textured micro-portrait of three Chinese immigrants whose lives criss-cross at the Flushing massage parlor where two of them work. The first is the casting of Lee Kang-sheng, whose presence in Tsang’s fluorescent take on New York City  — a world removed from the dilapidated Taipei he’s come to embody in the films of Tsai Ming-liang…

Cracked Actor: Lee Kang-sheng - Journal - Metrograph

Column Cracked Actor: Lee Kang-sheng Black Ox (2024) Column BY Dennis Zhou On the pleasures and pains of Tsai Ming-liang’s lifelong muse. Drifting Through Time: Focus on Lee Kang-sheng opens at 7 Ludlow on Saturday, April 19. For me, no body is as synonymous with the cinema as that of Lee Kang-sheng. The Taiwanese actor, now 56, is not necessarily the most prolific—he’s …