Tsai Chen-Nan

Tsai Chen-Nan

Born: July 26, 1954
in Chiayi, Taiwan

Movies for Tsai Chen-Nan...

Tales of Taipei
Title: Tales of Taipei
Released: November 23, 2023
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: What the Hell Is Love
Character: Tsai Chen-nan
Released: July 8, 2023
Type: TV
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...
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Marry My Dead Body
Title: Marry My Dead Body
Character: Lin Hsiao-Yuan
Released: February 10, 2023
Type: Movie
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.
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You Are On My Mind
Title: You Are On My Mind
Character: Cai Fu-shun
Released: October 21, 2022
Type: Movie
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Title: LANG, Always by Your Side
Character: Yu-er's Dad
Released: January 14, 2022
Type: TV
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Title: Tavern by the Lethe
Released: October 17, 2021
Type: TV
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.
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Enter the Dumpling
Title: Enter the Dumpling
Released: September 10, 2021
Type: Movie
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Man in Love
Title: Man in Love
Character: A-Cheng's Father
Released: April 1, 2021
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: 必勝大丈夫
Released: September 9, 2019
Type: TV
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Someone in the Clouds
Title: Someone in the Clouds
Character: Xiao Beigong
Released: January 4, 2019
Type: Movie
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.
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Safety First
Title: Safety First
Character: Wan
Released: March 11, 2018
Type: Movie
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Back to the Good Times
Title: Back to the Good Times
Character: Zheng Guang-Huei
Released: February 9, 2018
Type: Movie
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 acclaimed Qseries imprint, the quirky and moving family series A Boy Named Flora A (2017) turned into one of Taiwan's biggest television hits of 2017. The cast and crew return with more family love and laughs in the 2018 feature film Back to the Good Times (2018), directed by Yu Ning Chu. Released during the Chinese New Year period, the film follows the post-military life of protagonist Hwa Jia, played by popular singer-songwriter Crowd Lu
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Title: 媽媽不見了
Released: March 26, 2017
Type: TV
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She's Family
Title: She's Family
Released: March 26, 2017
Type: Movie
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Title: Shia Wa Se
Character: Li Huotai
Released: January 29, 2016
Type: TV
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?
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Gatao
Title: Gatao
Character: Yung
Released: July 5, 2015
Type: Movie
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 stop at nothing to eliminate Yong and take over his turf.
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The Missing Piece
Title: The Missing Piece
Released: May 15, 2015
Type: Movie
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)
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Kara-Orchestra
Title: Kara-Orchestra
Released: January 23, 2015
Type: Movie
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The Boar King
Title: The Boar King
Released: August 28, 2014
Type: Movie
When Cho loses her husband Ying and her family business in a massive typhoon, she is devastated.Then the villagers begin receiving mail from Ying. Is he really dead?
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When a Wolf Falls in Love with a Sheep
Title: When a Wolf Falls in Love with a Sheep
Character: Photocopy shop boss
Released: November 8, 2012
Type: Movie
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.
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The Ghost Tales
Title: The Ghost Tales
Character: SUNG Ting Po
Released: September 7, 2012
Type: Movie
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.
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Hotel Blackcat
Title: Hotel Blackcat
Released: November 6, 2011
Type: Movie
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.
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Ending Cut
Title: Ending Cut
Released: November 19, 2010
Type: Movie
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.
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Crossing The sentiMENtal Desert
Title: Crossing The sentiMENtal Desert
Character: Wang
Released: May 21, 2010
Type: Movie
It's the summer of 1993, six months since the death of Wang's wife, Chuen-Ying. His son, Chi-Shiung, has just come home from Taipei in order to take care of his father's Baozi (steamed buns with stuffing) business. Although he didn't want to take over his father's store, Wang insisted he wanted to keep it. Chi-Shiung suggested to his father that he hire some extra staff and so Ying, a Vietnam woman, is hired. In the mean-time Wang can't get over Chuen-Ying's death and begins to burden Ying. —Jean Huang
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Tears
Title: Tears
Released: March 12, 2010
Type: Movie
A detective seeks redemption after taking on an assignment involving the death of a girl.
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Title: The Year of Happiness and Love
Character: A Sheng
Released: August 7, 2009
Type: TV
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.
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Miss Kicki
Title: Miss Kicki
Released: April 1, 2009
Type: Movie
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.
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Da-Yu: The Touch of Fate
Title: Da-Yu: The Touch of Fate
Character: Police Officer
Released: November 23, 2006
Type: Movie
Da Yu, a 15-year-old boy, wanders aimlessly in the lonely city.
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Comes the Black Dog
Title: Comes the Black Dog
Released: March 27, 2004
Type: Movie
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.
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Betelnut Beauty
Title: Betelnut Beauty
Character: Ming
Released: June 20, 2001
Type: Movie
A cute coed leaves her mother's home and gets involved with a pastry chef who has links to the local criminal element.
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The Cabbie
Title: The Cabbie
Released: October 10, 2000
Type: Movie
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.
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Lament of the Sand River
Title: Lament of the Sand River
Released: June 24, 2000
Type: Movie
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.
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Cop Abula
Title: Cop Abula
Released: January 1, 1999
Type: Movie
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 end, Abula resorts to the improper way of solving the problem, resulting in a hilarious ending to the story.
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Connection by Fate
Title: Connection by Fate
Released: September 8, 1998
Type: Movie
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 thereafter intertwined.
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A Borrowed Life
Title: A Borrowed Life
Character: Sega
Released: August 26, 1995
Type: Movie
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.
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Good Men, Good Women
Title: Good Men, Good Women
Character: Ah Nan
Released: May 13, 1995
Type: Movie
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.
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Heartbreak Island
Title: Heartbreak Island
Character: Jin Guang
Released: March 23, 1995
Type: Movie
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, and lives conventionally. She finds him; he's not happy to see her. How she reacts to losing the center of her life becomes the subject of the film.
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The Puppetmaster
Title: The Puppetmaster
Character: Xu Jinmu
Released: December 8, 1993
Type: Movie
In the first half of this century, young Li Tienlu joins a travelling puppet theatre and subsequently makes a career as one of Taiwan's leading puppeteers.
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Dust of Angels
Title: Dust of Angels
Character: Ah Nan
Released: July 3, 1992
Type: Movie
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.
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A City of Sadness
Title: A City of Sadness
Character: Singer
Released: October 21, 1989
Type: Movie
The story of a family embroiled in the "White Terror", mainland China's political repression that was wrought on the Taiwanese people by the Kuomintang government in the late 1940s.
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Butterfly Mansion
Title: Butterfly Mansion
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
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 Xiao Liang cares for CHEN, with her daughter showing joy in his visits. As the Chinese ghost month progresses, supernatural events escalate, revealing a crisis beyond CHEN Wei’s initial struggles.
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Two Old Fellas
Title: Two Old Fellas
Character: Rong-Nan Gao
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
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.