Mark Lee Ping Bin

Mark Lee Ping-bin is a cinematographer I'd put among the great visual poets of Asian cinema, even if his name rarely reaches casual viewers. His collaborations with directors like Hou Hsiao-hsien and Wong Kar-wai gave us some of the most achingly beautiful images on film, where light seems to breathe and mood does the storytelling. With over seventy films and a wall of international awards behind him, he's a Taiwanese master who proves the camera operator can be as much an author as the director. When I notice the photography before the plot, his is often the hand I imagine behind it.

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Name (English)

Mark Lee Ping Bin

Name (Japanese)

李屏賓

Reading

りー・ぴんびん

Born

August 8, 1954 (age 72)

Origin

Taiwan

Occupation

cinematographer / photographer / actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Horse

Awards & achievements

• 2022 Asia's Most Influential Taiwan

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20Lee%20Ping-bing
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%8E%E5%B1%8F%E8%B3%93
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q711121

Tags

• cinematographer
• photographer
• actor

Last updated

November 2, 2026

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