Li Tian-lu (Chinese: 李天禄) is a principal character in the trilogy of historical films of Taiwanese film directed by Hou Hsiao-Hsien.
The Puppetmaster tells the true story of Li's life as a master puppeteer faced with demands to turn his skills to propaganda during the Japanese occupation of Taiwan in World War II.
Li plays the paterfamilias of the extended Chinese family facing the events surrounding the A City of Sadness (1989).
Li plays the grandfather in Hou's 1986 film Dust in the Wind and 1987 film Daughter of the Nile.