Tsai Chen-Nan
Birthday: Born in 1954-07-26 in Chiayi, Taiwan
Deathday: Alive
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媽媽不見了
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浪我在你身邊
Character: Yu-er's Dad
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地獄里長
Character: Tsai Chen-nan
If the law and its enforcement has worked, then the world needs gods no more... When facing the dilemma with no right answer in this world full of ambiguity, Lou I-fang, the Master of the shrine and the Chief of the village will stand out to do justice right. Together with his assistant and fellow lawyers, they team up to bring hope to people whenever crime or unfairness emerge. If only they could also face the doubts within themselves......
必勝大丈夫
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那一年的幸福時光
Character: A Sheng
Jiang Chen-bo is a loser without prospects for success, until a surprise promotion becomes the catalyst for his entire family's upturn in fortune....
孟婆客棧
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Residents of the Underworld who refuse to drink Bing Po’s special soup to erase all their memories in preparation for reincarnation are sent to Bing Po’s Tavern, where its staff must fulfill their wishes in seven days or they will become red spider lilies by the River Lethe....
幸福不二家
Character: Li Huotai
Matsuzaka Bistro is a hot diner in Taiwan where people go for great homemade food and the welcoming atmosphere of a loving family that owns it. But it is all a hoax! The sweet parents and their enthusiastic son and daughter are actually not even related to each other. The strangers met by coincidence when they each needed a new start in life and decided to become a family in order to open the restaurant. The question is: Is a true family born or made?...
植劇場 - 花甲男孩轉大人
Character: 鄭光輝
A 28-year-old layabout begins to re-examine his life when his dysfunctional family assembles to pay respects to a dying grandmother who won’t pass on....
求婚事务所
Character: 郑伯伯
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比赛开始
Character: 阿公
An army deserter hiding out in a small coastal town becomes the coach of a youth baseball team and develops warm relationships in his new community....
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Good Men, Good Women
Character: Ah Nan
An actress preparing to play in a historical epic is terrorized by someone faxing her pages from her stolen diary; has colorful flashbacks of her affair with a now-deceased man; and imagines black-and-white film-within-a-film scenes of the movie she is about to appear in....
Them, Behind the Door
Character: Uncle Shan
The story centers on CHEN Wei and her daughter, seeking refuge from CHEN Wei’s violent husband in the Butterfly Mansion, known for its eerie reputation as a suicide hotspot. Strange events unfold, and warnings from Uncle LIANG, the building’s janitor, and Uncle Shan, the temple caretaker who lives on the top floor, about the unsafe floor are ignored due to financial constraints. Neighbors like Ah Di, who sees spirits, and the forbidden Room No. 613, intensify CHEN’s unease. Substitute manager Xi...
Betelnut Beauty
Character: Ming
A cute coed leaves her mother's home and gets involved with a pastry chef who has links to the local criminal element....
Connection by Fate
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A-Te used to be a social movement fanatic. But after suffering the pain of divorce and the death of his child, he changed his profession and became a taxi driver. Ma Le, a young aboriginal man, came to Taipei alone to earn a living on construction sites. However, unable to bear the exploitation, and in a rage, Ma Le accidentally killed a site superintendent and was sentenced to death. A-Te gave Ma Le a ride in his taxi on the night that Ma Le committed the killing and their two fates were therea...
Two Old Fellas
Character: Rong-Nan Gao
The day Liao was discharged from prison with his maimed right hand was also the day Nan was forced to retire. Nan will no longer be the head of CIB, just as Liao will no longer be a pickpocket. Liao wants to find the young pickpocket who called him “Daddy” back then, while Nan misses his daughter badly, who hated him profoundly and was unwilling to forgive him. So the two desperate old fellows start trying to find their last hope....
Kara-Orchestra
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A Borrowed Life
Character: Sega
Sega's children, born into post-war Chinese rule, can't relate to their father's love for Japanese culture, having grown up under Japanese rule before WWII....
Dust of Angels
Character: Ah Nan
A-Guo and A-Dou are two teenagers living in an industrial town in Taiwan, who fight, loaf, and cause trouble all day and hang out with Jie, a young gangster. When Jie's gangland patron is gunned down, the trio set out to revenge the killing. As a result, the two teens are forced into hiding....
Heartbreak Island
Character: Jin Guang
In Taiwan, a young woman, Lin-Lang, is released from prison after serving ten years for terrorist activity. She had turned to bomb making in grief after her mentor and lover, An Rong, who was also her university professor, was arrested for political activity and, she presumed, executed. In prison, she learns Rong is alive, and she maintains her spirits and sanity for the years in her cell by holding imaginary conversations with him. When she is released, she discovers he is married, has a child,...
Tales of Taipei
Character: Wing's boyfriend's father (segment "Papa in Law")
A heartfelt piece that tells the stories of Taipei streets, people and communities. From ten directors across the globe, creating ten unique stories of Taipei, through various backgrounds, delivering the same heartfelt message....
Da-Yu: The Touch of Fate
Character: Police Officer
Da Yu, a 15-year-old boy, wanders aimlessly in the lonely city....
When a Wolf Falls in Love with a Sheep
Character: Photocopy shop boss
This heart-warming romantic comedy takes place at Nanyang Street, the most famous "cram school" street in Taipei City. A young man works at a copy shop where his life is a boring routine of copying test papers for students. One day he finds a drawing of a sheep mixed in on the test papers, which leads him to an unexpected journey....
You Are On My Mind
Character: Cai Fu-shun
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The Cabbie
Character: Coordination Lead
After falling in love with a traffic cop, a cab driver commits as many traffic violations as he can in order to see her again....
A City of Sadness
Character: Singer
The story of a family embroiled in the "White Terror," the Kuomintang government's anti-communist political repression that was wrought on the Taiwanese people from 1947-1987....
The Puppetmaster
Character: Xu Jinmu
Master puppeteer Li Tien-lu recalls his life in Japanese-occupied Taiwan during the first half of the 20th century....
Comes the Black Dog
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Compulsive gambler Jih (Tai-bao) tries to bamboozle dim-bulb gang boss Black Dog (Chen-Nan Tsai) in this satirical action-comedy that pokes fun at Taiwanese culture. To fend off Black Dog's attempt to collect a gaming debt, Jih says he can't repay the money because he needs it for the funeral of his father (Bin-hui Lee) -- who once saved the mafioso's life. Trouble is, Jih's father is alive, and Black Dog plans to attend the memorial service....
Miss Kicki
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Kicki has after several years abroad returned to Sweden. Her 17-year old son has been brought up by his grandmother and has a very distant relationship to his mother. In an effort to get reacquainted Kicki invites her son to join her on vacation in Taiwan. But her hidden agenda is that Taipei is also the home of the Taiwanese businessman with whom she has been conducting an Internet romance....
Marry My Dead Body
Character: Lin Hsiao-yuan
After finding an odd envelope, Policeman Ming-han's life takes a spooky turn: He's now wed to a ghost husband, and they must solve a crime together....
GATAO: Like Father Like Son
Character: Yung Sang
Drug Prince Michael and Scorpion are seizing the old fellows' turfs, the gangs families tornado spins three nobodies who are trying to survive. You'll never know who's gonna get bit by reality through the alternation of generations?...
Ending Cut
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Hsu, retired, craves for grandchildren while his two sons still staying single. Preventing from losing memory, he takes a camera back to hometown to shoot an autobiography for his unborn grandchildren....
Someone in the Clouds
Character: Xiao Beigong
Hsiao-pei carries on her family’s fortune telling tradition, almost exclusively giving young women love advice. She also runs her college’s tarot club through which she meets the playfully cocky Chiung-nan, who uses the cards to ask her out. A rocky romance ensues, replete with a clumsy seduction, an unexpected fire and both figurative and literal ball busting....
She's Family
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The Ghost Tales
Character: SUNG Ting Po
Inspired by an ancient Chinese ghost story, the tale that goes beyond what viewers usually expect in the ghost movies and further to challenge the traditional story-telling pattern....
Gatao
Character: Yung
Qing Feng is the top lieutenant under gang boss Yong. Three years ago, his good friend Xiong went to jail for him in the name of brotherhood. Upon his return, Xiong is immediately favored by Yong, which plants a growing rift in his friendship with Qing Feng. Over on the rival gang side, U.S.-educated Michael returns to Taiwan to take over for his late father and applies ruthless business strategies to expand his turf. With his eyes set on a profitable property development project, Michael will s...
Man in Love
Character: A-Cheng's Father
A debt collector strikes a deal with a debt-ridden woman struggling to care for her ailing father: he will take care of her bills if she agrees to date him....
Safety First
Character: Wan
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Back to the Good Times
Character: Zheng Guang-Huei
Nearly a year has gone by since the passing of Grandma, and the Zheng family is busy preparing for memorial rituals. Hwa Jia (Crowd Lu) gets discharged from military service and happily reunites with Wei (Vera Yen). The next morning, Wei's parents catch them in bed together and flip out. Wei's angry parents confront Hwa Jia's family, and the whole meeting turns into a farcical mess. Faced with an unprecedented crisis, Hwa Jia must figure out how to save himself and his family. Part of TTV's accl...
The Missing Piece
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Everyone wants their life to a perfect circle, but always failed with a missing piece. Dao-Fung, who has strange psychological symptom, five second’s blank, had decided to cure himself by a travel and arrived Riguang village in Taitung. He met four interesting people. During stayed at there, five of them found their own missing piece due to the love among them. Dao-Fung became aware of his symptom gradually disappeared, too. (Bifan 2015)...
Hotel Blackcat
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The Hotel Blackcat's owner, Mang, never leaves the counter. Guests include the immigrant worker, whore, losing-job Japanese, sex-abused man, little Lolita.... The police forces the Hotel to shut down and all guests must leave. What should they do? It's not necessary to lock each room anymore. Keep the door open, you'll find out traces imprinted with figures as well as times....
Lament of the Sand River
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To achieve his dream of being a trumpet player, a man leaves his hometown and works in a touring operetta troupe. He falls in love with a girl but then contracts tuberculosis, forcing him to give up the trumpet....
Cop Abula
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Cop Abula arrests a pregnant illegal immigrant, Xiao Qing, who came from mainland China to look for the father of her baby. Upon arrest, Xiao Qing gives birth to a baby girl in the police station, causing disorder in the place. Abula takes care of her and even helps to search for the father. On the other hand, Abula has to face other worries, like the problem between him and his son, Ah Yi. In addition, there is the Mafia who makes life difficult for Abula as he refuses to accept bribery. In the...
GATAO: Big Brothers
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