Born in Qishan Township, Kaohsiung County, in 1947, Lee ’ s first experience with the power and beauty of language came at the age of 10 when he read Goethe ’ s The Sorrows of Young Werther. But the young Lee continued to spend most of his time reading chivalric novels borrowed from book-rental shops, while also developing a love of film facilitated by an uncle ’ s movie -theater in Pingtung.
李敏勇，1947 年生於高雄縣旗山鎮，10 歲時偶爾看到德國文豪歌德的《少年維特的煩惱》，初窺文學之美，不過大部分時間，他還是喜歡在租書店閱讀武俠小說，加上伯父在屏東市開設戲院，電影也是他的最愛。