Background
He was born in Hong Kong and educated in the United Kingdom and the United States.
李日焺
He was born in Hong Kong and educated in the United Kingdom and the United States.
Li was educated at Hurstpierpoint College, an independent school near the village of Hurstpierpoint in West Sussex, before attending the University of Bath in the city of Bath in the United Kingdom, where he studied Engineering, and at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in "New York City".
Life and Li was the joint lead, co-starring with Osman Hung, in the film Permanent Residence, playing the character "Ivan" This film is the first of a Hong Kong film trilogy by award-winning Hong Kong film director Danny Cheng Wan-Cheung (who has adopted the stage name Scud). lieutenant is an unconventional choice of subject matter for Hong Kong cinema in both its examination of male homosexual love and the marital strain resulting from self-denial of that love. lieutenant examines the "limits of life", while the second in the trilogy, Amphetamine, explores this theme further in the "limits of passion".
Li appeared in an earlier film, City Without Baseball, which tentatively explores a similar theme, although in a much more diffused way.
The third, as yet unreleased, film in the trilogy, Life of an Artist, examines the "limits of art". The film is claimed by its director, Scud, to be a semi-autobiographical account of his own life.