Ma Nien-Hsien

Acting

Ma Nien-Hsien

Born

1973-02-08 (53)

Place of birth

Taipei, Taiwan

Known for

Acting

Credits

45 titles

Ma Nien-Hsien (馬念先) is a Taiwanese singer and actor born in Taipei. He is a founding member, singer and guitarist of the funk rock band Sticky Rice (糯米糰).

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 10 titles

Marry My Dead Body poster
7.1

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.

Marry My Dead Body

2023

Your Name Engraved Herein poster
7.9

In 1987, as martial law ends in Taiwan, Jia-han and Birdy fall in love amid family pressure, homophobia and social stigma.

Your Name Engraved Herein

2020

Salli poster
4.5

An online romance with a foreigner takes a lonely middle-aged chicken farmer to an unknown land. Despite everyone saying it is a romance scam, she wants to prove that her love indeed exists.

Salli

2024

Locust poster
5.5

In Taiwan, as the 2019 Hong Kong protests erupt across the strait, Zhong-Han, a young silent thug, leads a life divided between his work in a family restaurant and parties in the dark Taipei underworld. But when a questionable businessman wants to buy the restaurant, Zhong-Han is drawn into a whirlwind of events that confronts him with the corrupt power games of his country.

Locust

2025

Leaving Virginia poster
4.3

A-Lie and Big D are friends and both virgins. To celebrate Big D’s birthday, A-Lie suggest to Big D that he should lose his virginity. On the Internet, the duo hire an escort called Wonderland. However, in a love hotel, Wonderland dies from a drug overdose and her body leaves the duo in shock. Eager to dispose the body, A-Lie takes advantage of his online celebrity status and asks Xi-Shi, a fan of A-Lie’s, to use her van and help the duo get rid of corpse. They stumble into numerous weird accidents, a journey full of desire, suspicion and betrayal and in the end, the cruelest summertime they have ever had.

Leaving Virginia

2020

The Lyricist Wannabe poster
6.6

Believing that writing Cantopop is her God-given talent, Law Wing-sze decides to make it her lifelong career. But as hard as Sze tries to polish her lyric-writing skills and expand her social circle, nothing seems to go her way. What if there’s a will, but there’s no way?

The Lyricist Wannabe

2024

ME poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

ME

2021

Tán-thāi poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Tán-thāi

2025

Cry Me Through Hell poster
NR

Unaware of his death, Mr. Wu arrives at "Hell Airport" but can't be reincarnated as his daughter hasn't cried for him. To help him, hell messengers visit a film set and try to make his stubborn daughter cry, or he'll be trapped in hell forever.

Cry Me Through Hell

2023

The Miracle on Christmas Eve poster
6.0

Ziyuan's family has a tradition of celebrating Christmas joyously, but everything changes when his parents divorce. They move to a new home; everyday objects go missing, there’s a dog on his route to school, and the saddest part is that it seemed like his parents no longer love each other! Ziyuan finds it hard to accept and decides to recreate the "Christmas Eve Secret Room Miracle" to evoke the beautiful memories of previous years...

The Miracle on Christmas Eve

2023

2010s · 9 titles

Happy Paradise Rock Records 30th Anniversary Live In Taipei poster
8.5

To celebrate the 30th anniversary of Rock Records in Taiwan, the music label put together an unprecedented concert in the history of Taiwan music, supported by more than 60 performing units. The show toured through Asia and many cities in the Mainland, and finally drew its curtains in Taipei Arena in November 2011. The massive lineup posed an array of challenges in terms of scheduling, lightning, sound and stage design for the crew, but in the end everything came together and resulted in a grand five-hour spectacle. Some of the artists who appeared in the finale include Wu Bai and China Blue, Mayday, Emil Chau, Alex To, Karen Mok, Fish Leong, A-Yue Chang, Rene Liu, Winnie Hsin and Richie Jen who brought to fans classic ballads like "Moment of Awakening," "Don't Leave Me If You Love Me," "Soft-Hearted," "A Tearful Decision," "Happy Paradise" and more.

Happy Paradise Rock Records 30th Anniversary Live In Taipei

2010

All You Need Is Love poster
6.2

Tired of her family constantly nagging her to get married, spoiled heiress Yeh Fenfen (Shu Qi) books a stay at a beautiful villa on the Penghu Islands, which are the subject of a classic song on a tape left for her by her mother. When she arrives at her destination, she's dismayed to find that the gorgeous villa is actually a rundown B&B owned by Wu (Richie Jen). It turns out that Wu's friends, hoping to drum up some business for the B&B, falsified a few details about the state of the property on the internet. Angered by the deception, Fenfen packs her bags and leaves the next day. But, when she loses all of her luggage on the boat ride, Fenfen has no choice but to head back to the island.

All You Need Is Love

2015

David Loman poster
4.1

David Loman, a simple country bumpkin who accidentally becomes a big boss in the criminal underworld. A decade passes, and life seems to go on as usual - solving daily problems for locals and receiving "protection fees" - until one day a deity tells David through a medium that he needs to find a double to avoid a catastrophe. Panicky, the boss seeks help from Old Ho, who agrees to pass as David for a few days, but is assassinated when attending a gathering with fellow gangsters.

David Loman

2013

Zone Pro Site: The Moveable Feast poster
6.3

Wan returns home with an enormous debt after her modelling career fails, only to find that her family's restaurant has dwindled down to a single noodle stand. The situation is hopeless until a master chef decides to help her family return to glory.

Zone Pro Site: The Moveable Feast

2013

Nana's Game poster
NR

Tang Guan-guan is a single-minded and ruthless TV producer at the WTV television network. She is charged with creating a unique reality TV program like no other – for fans of horror and suspense. The show involves sending five contestants to spend 72 hours in a house where a terrible murder is supposed to have been committed. The house is notoriously spooky and located in a remote area, far away from other signs of civilisation, and some say that it is haunted by terrifying ghosts. At stake is a large cash prize, and the producer and her long-suffering crew decide to select their contestants from the world of social media and popular entertainment.

Nana's Game

2018

Sweet Alibis poster
5.5

Chi-yi is a veteran cop, who values his own safety more than anything else and is therefore infamous for his cowardice and poor efficiency at work. Yi-ping, on the other hand, has just graduated from the police academy and is more than ready to prove herself regardless of any risks. Daughter of the head of the National Policy Agency, Yi-ping is secretly kept away from danger by being appointed to team up with Chi-yi. Starting from a seemingly pointless case of a puppy’s accidental death, the essentially incompatible pair unexpectedly dig up the clues to a series of mysterious deaths.

Sweet Alibis

2014

The Killer Who Never Kills poster
4.8

Trevor Ou is The Killer Who Never Kills, an assassin who earns the trust of his targets before snuffing their lives – and he does it without killing them! Trevor fakes the deaths of his targets and gives them new identities, but when his first target Grace returns – and reveals her love for him – Trevor may need to find a more permanent solution.

The Killer Who Never Kills

2011

Laugh for 24 Hours poster
NR

Bong-tshio is your ordinary countryside grandma, raising four kids in an impoverished environment; however, the kids that grew up and started their own families do not respect her, fostering her in turns for one month, while bargaining with each other about the number of days in different months. But the optimistic Bong-tshio always just laughed it off. Until one day, she got lost and wandered into a police station, and then accidentally won the top prize of the lottery. Her children began to look for her desperately, rushing back to their old place in the countryside, and kicked off a ridiculous competition of filial piety.

Laugh for 24 Hours

2016

Kara-Orchestra poster
NR

Based on the musical "I Have Not Respected You In A Long Time."

Kara-Orchestra

2015

2000s · 6 titles

Series credits

It Started With a Kiss poster
7.5

A live-action television adaptation of the Japanese manga series Itazura na Kiss written by Kaoru Tada.

It Started With a Kiss

2005

Light the Night poster
8.2

In the red light district of 1980s Taipei, women at a popular Japanese night club navigate jealousy, heartbreak, friendship and love.

Light the Night

2021

The Victims' Game poster
7.5

After discovering his estranged daughter's link to mysterious murders, a forensic detective with Asperger's syndrome risks everything to solve the case.

The Victims' Game

2020

Justice Heroes poster
NR

A cops and robbers drama filled with emotion.

Justice Heroes

2011

More than Blue: The Series poster
6.9

The series revolves around the journey of music producer Wang Po Han and his assistant An Yi Qi to find the copyright owner of the mysterious song for their artist, A-Lin. They also came across a diary belonging to K who is the producer of the mysterious song and traveled into the life story of K through the diary. The diary tells the story of K and Cream, two orphans who journey through life and share experiences in sadness and joy together. However, K is diagnosed with fatal leukemia cancer. Knowing that Cream's biggest fear is to be left alone, K keeps the fact that he has terminal cancer a secret.

More than Blue: The Series

2021

Forget You Not poster
9.0

An aspiring stand-up comedian turns her struggles into heartfelt humor as she balances work and relationships while caring for her aging father.

Forget You Not

2025

Time Story poster
8.0

This epic period piece follows the lives of several families in a military village from the 1960s to the 1990s.

Time Story

2008

A Good Day poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

A Good Day

2016

GG Precinct poster
7.2

Facing a trail of murders staged as chilling word games, a rookie police captain and a goofy detective race to solve a serial killer's deadly puzzles.

GG Precinct

2024

Breeze By the Sea poster
10.0

A celebrity escapes to Kinmen after a public scandal, where an unexpected romance helps him rediscover what truly matters.

Breeze By the Sea

2024

The Zoo poster
9.0

Sunny Chu, a Group Creative Director at a global ad agency, is a master of high-pressure environments—until everything starts falling apart. She loses a major client, gets sidelined at work, and her relationship takes a hit. Her last shot at redemption comes in the form of rebranding a zoo. But there’s a catch: she must first work as a zookeeper intern. Thrown into a world of demanding animals, endless cleaning, and eccentric coworkers—especially the aloof senior keeper Shaun Su—Sunny must forget everything she knows about office politics and learn to survive by the rules of the wild.

The Zoo

2026

Sweet Relationship poster
NR

Sweet Relationship is a Taiwanese drama starring Vic Chou of F4, Alan Kuo, Megan Lai and Patty Hou. It is based on a Japanese josei manga Oishii Kankei by Satoru Makimura. It was produced by Comic Ritz International Production with Chai Zhi Ping as producer and directed by Chu Yu-ning. The series was first boardcasted in Taiwan on free-to-air Chinese Television System from 16 September 2007 to 27 January 2008, every Sunday from 22:00 to 23:30 and cable TV Gala Television Variety Show/CH 28 from 22 September 2007 to 2 February 2008, every Saturday at 21:00. It only received moderate rating despite the promising cast as well as story. The average rating of the drama after the final episode was 1.50.

Sweet Relationship

2007

Rock ‘n’ Road poster
NR

After you hit bottom, is it possible to return to the top? Former top child actress Lin Wei Zhen (Kimi Hsia) has been unable to find work as she grew older in the entertainment industry, throwing her in the pits of depression and self-pity. She then meets Zhou Shu Yu (Chris Wu), a producer who is at the peak of his successful career. But when his friend Xu Li Da (Mike Lee) and his girlfriend, Yang Jia Xin (Nita Lei), both betray him, Shu Yu loses everything he has worked so hard to attain. With only Wei Zhen at his side at his lowest moment, can the former child star and the rock-bottom producer help each other to regain their former glory?

Rock ‘n’ Road

2014

Memory Eclipse poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Memory Eclipse

2020

The Floating Generation poster
NR

Three girls in different situations and stages in life decided to leave Hong Kong for their own reasons and aspirations and try to take root in Taiwan. However, there’s always an unpredictable distance between imagination and reality.

The Floating Generation

2024

Good Days poster
NR

At a neighborhood recycling station in Taipei’s Da’an District, two volunteers with a father-and-son bond find their lives intertwined with visitors from all walks of life, transforming environmental work into a quiet journey of healing, connection, and rediscovered purpose.

Good Days

2026

Undertaker poster
NR

A body removal technician encounters the emotional and mysterious stories of the deceased he handles, uncovering their lives, relationships, and secrets.

Undertaker

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