Umin Boya

Acting

Umin Boya

Born 1978-03-01 · Yuli, Hualien, Taiwan

Umin Boya, also known as Ma Chih-hsiang, is a Taiwanese aborigine writer, director and actor, and director of the historical baseball film Kano. He also starred in Wei Te-sheng's Seediq Bale.

Acting credits

Lovesick poster
7.2

A love story that starts with pretending to be sick, describing a troubled teenager named Ye Zijie who always loves to get into trouble. By chance, he discovered that "it's good to be sick".

Lovesick

2025

Till We Meet Again poster
6.6

Ah Lun, who has a choice to make in the underworld, decides to be a god of love in Chinese mythology. As he advances with his tasks on Earth, his biggest challenge is to tie a red string with the woman he loves the most.

Till We Meet Again

2021

Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale poster
7.8

An indigenous clan-based people living in harmony with nature find their way of life threatened when violent interlopers from another culture arrive, intent on seizing their natural resources and enslaving them.

Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale

2012

My Missing Valentine poster
6.9

Xiao Chi, a driven girl who's been looking for love, gets asked out by a hot guy on the eve of Valentine's Day. As she anticipates her first date, she wakes up the next morning and finds that the Valentine's Day has mysteriously passed.

My Missing Valentine

2020

Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 1: The Sun Flag poster
7.3

An indigenous clan-based people living in harmony with nature find their way of life threatened when violent interlopers from another culture arrive, intent on seizing their natural resources and enslaving them. Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 1: The Sun Flag is Part one of the two-part, four-hour Taiwanese edition of the film Warriors of the Rainbow.

Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 1: The Sun Flag

2011

Deep Quiet Room poster
6.0

After his pregnant wife Yi-ting unexpectedly committed suicide, Ming decides to take care of his father-in-law, only to find out the unbearable truth of Yi-ting’s family that leads to her death.

Deep Quiet Room

2026

20 30 40 poster
5.6

A woman in her 20s, another in her 30s and a third in her 40s must each find a way to navigate the challenges they face in life and love.

20 30 40

2004

Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 2: The Rainbow Bridge poster
8.0

After the uprising at Wushe, Mona Rudao faces a guerrilla war against the militarily superior Japanese and Seediq clans. He and his followers must fight for their dignity and honor so that they can truly be "Seediq Bale" or "real men." Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 2: The Rainbow Bridge is Part two of the two-part, four-hour Taiwanese edition of the film Warriors of the Rainbow.

Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 2: The Rainbow Bridge

2011

Hotel Iris poster
2.5

Somewhere on the coast of Taiwan is Hotel Iris, a mouldering seaside establishment run by a cold and thrifty Japanese woman (Nahana) and her lonely half-Taiwanese daughter Mari (Lucia). One night, Mari hears the cries of a woman from the upper floors. Heading up to investigate, she witnesses a distraught woman in a red camisole dress escape an impeccably dressed but violent man (NAGASE Masatoshi) whose cold voice is entrancing. Mari’s initial shock turns into a strange fascination which drives her to follow the man to discover more about him. He is a translator who lives on an isolated island one can only reach by boat and rumours swirl around him and recent murders. The closer she gets to the man, the more a hidden layer of Mari’s personality awakens as she allows herself to be engulfed by his strange passions…

Hotel Iris

2022

Marching Boys poster
7.0

In 1992, five years after Taiwan lifted martial law, Jiang, a high school student destined for a top medical college, secretly joins the school’s marching band to chase his passion for music. When the band faces closure due to its outdated focus on martial music, Jiang and his fellow members rally together, determined to save it and reclaim its honor in a prestigious competition.

Marching Boys

2025

BIG poster
5.4

Welcome to Ward 816, a place filled with incredible children who are true warriors. Each of them carries a badge symbolising their strength in fighting various diseases. In this bustling ward, there's a special group, including Yuan, Shi-yan, Heng, Nuala, Jia-nong, and Da-shan. Despite their parents' occasional arguments, they always come together to support one another when it matters most.

BIG

2023

The Embers poster
NR

In 2006, Detective Chang leads a police investigation into a murder committed in a public marketplace. Chang discovers the victim's father has ties to several other families with dead or missing members, and a grim espionage case buried for 50 years in Taiwan's past. Meanwhile, the kidnapped Mr. Hsu is interrogated by a mysterious mastermind. As the truth emerges, the embers of history become a deadly wildfire.

The Embers

2024

Let's Cheat Together poster
4.2

Sleuth Cheng, host of a popular variety show, was found wounded and trapped in a tetrapod at the shore, while a video of him kissing the mayor’s wife went viral and caused media frenzy. As Cheng’s girlfriend angrily confronts him, he reveals details that may turn a secret love affair into a political mega storm.

Let's Cheat Together

2018

Zinnia Flower poster
5.8

On the same day, in the same accident, Wei loses his pregnant wife and Ming her fiancé. In Buddhism, one is given 100 days to mourn for the dead. Like two mice lost in a labyrinth, Wei runs around in circles while Ming calmly creeps down a determined path. But the pain and sorrow linger on. With the 100th day approaching, they wonder if they'll ever be able to say goodbye.

Zinnia Flower

2015

Listen Before You Sing poster
8.2

An elementary school in the mountains is to be abolished due to the decreasing population. The PE teacher is assigned to form a choir and to win the national choir contest to solve the crisis. With limited resource and absolutely no music background, the PE teacher and a group of tone-deaf students start to prepare for the contest. The choir and their community eventually find their own voice and identity.

Listen Before You Sing

2021

Together poster
5.5

Everyone around Xiao Yang, a 17-year-old high school boy, keeps secrets and suffers from heartbreak. His father runs a print shop and meets a girl next door, Li who is about to get married soon. Meantime, his shopkeeper mother gets close to her neighbor tailor, Shian. Yang tries to set up a date for his sister Lang who just got dumped. Also, Yang needs to cover his friend Mao who has a lovers’ quarrel to girlfriend Tian. As the only one who’s alone, Yang quietly witnesses the romances from a distance and secretly reads those love letters he helps deliver…

Together

2012

Hunter Brothers poster
6.0

Seven years ago, Lin Cheng was jailed for his father’s death. Finally released, he and older brother Hsiang, the real culprit, must face the consequences of the past together.

Hunter Brothers

2025

Orz Boyz poster
7.2

More than just naughty, they play tricks on classmates, tease girls at school, fight with other boys, and lie to everyone until their teacher breaks down. They are named Liar No. 1 and Liar No. 2. The most important act planned in their life is to go to the mysterious water park, where they can leap through the portal at the end of the water slide to the fairy-tale world OZ and live as grown-ups happily ever after. However, the commitment is torn by a careless betrayal.

Orz Boyz

2008

Brave 20 poster
10.0

In the 80's, passing the college entrance exam was the only hope for a future. To Chi-wen and Ming-hsien it is a bleak and unwanted future that they rebel against. Ming-hsien is in love with Jing-fen, a girl with a musician boyfriend. In order to prove his love Ming-hsien decides against taking the college entrance exam in order to help her with a financial scam. When Chiwen follows suit, he loses his girlfriend as well as his focus in life.

Brave 20

2003

No artwork available
8.0

Somewhere Over the Dreamland adopts a portmanteau form to provide a realistically poetic depiction of the sad fate of two generations of aboriginals as alienated laborers in Taipei city.

Somewhere Over the Dreamland

2003

The Clouds are Two Thousand Meters Up poster
NR

After the sudden death of his wife, Guan discovers her unfinished novel—a tale intertwining the endangered clouded leopard and the Rukai tribe’s sacred origin myth, which tells of their descent from the elusive animal. Grief-stricken and seeking connection, he sets out on a surreal journey into dreamlike scenes—a maze of the subconscious, mist-shrouded forests, ancient tree hollows, and symbolic inner landscapes.

The Clouds are Two Thousand Meters Up

2025

Behind the camera

No artwork available
NR

Baru, an Indigenous man, is on an illicit hunt to prove himself worthy of his pregnant girlfriend. As an army deserter, he is in turn hunted by mountain patrol Sam and poacher Sakinu. A fateful encounter with the sacred Black Bear reconnects him to the wisdom of his father and ancestors. A poetic journey into the spiritual heartland of the Paiwan tribe, set during the 90s Indigenous Name Rectification Movement.

The Last Hunter

No artwork available
NR

Baru, an Indigenous man, is on an illicit hunt to prove himself worthy of his pregnant girlfriend. As an army deserter, he is in turn hunted by mountain patrol Sam and poacher Sakinu. A fateful encounter with the sacred Black Bear reconnects him to the wisdom of his father and ancestors. A poetic journey into the spiritual heartland of the Paiwan tribe, set during the 90s Indigenous Name Rectification Movement.

The Last Hunter

KANO poster
7.0

A Taiwanese high school baseball team travels to Japan in 1931 to compete in a national tournament.

KANO

2014

我在這邊唱 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

我在這邊唱

2009

No artwork available
NR

Asuka Café is the modern-time Dragon Inn, where walks of life converge and seperate. Solicited by an old friend to solve a rape crime, the charismatic owner of the Asuka Café on Linsen North Road, Xiang Yu, unexpectedly stumbles on her own deepest secrets.

Linsen N. Rd.

No artwork available
NR

As a young boy, Fa'aye spent his days alongside his father deep in their lands, surrounded by towering bamboo and learning the ways of Atayal culture and knowledge. Now an elder, Fa'aye is caught between the trappings of the present day and trying to maintain a meaningful connection to his traditional territory, which has now been privatized by the state. With his young grandson in tow, Fa'aye is determined to return to the forest and reassert his duty to care for the bamboo despite the serious legal ramifications of his actions. The Crying Bamboo Forest is a remarkable first feature film that reflects the struggles and challenges currently faced by many Indigenous people living in Taiwan.

The Crying Bamboo Forest

2010