Tsai Chen-nan

Acting

Tsai Chen-nan

Born

1954-07-26 (72)

Place of birth

Chiayi, Taiwan

Known for

Acting

Credits

52 titles

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 10 titles

GATAO: Big Brothers poster
6.2

Michael and his right-hand man Scorpion, who find themselves embroiled in their father Ko's turf war against rival gangs in Taipei, setting off a conflict between old and new generations of gangsters. The film is the latest installment in the Gatao franchise, following the narrative of a young successor trying to expand his power while navigating the volatile underworld.

GATAO: Big Brothers

2025

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

GATAO: Like Father Like Son poster
7.3

Michael and his right-hand man Scorpion, who find themselves embroiled in their father Ko's turf war against rival gangs in Taipei, setting off a conflict between old and new generations of gangsters. The film is the latest installment in the Gatao franchise, following the narrative of a young successor trying to expand his power while navigating the volatile underworld.

GATAO: Like Father Like Son

2024

Man in Love poster
7.2

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.

Man in Love

2021

Tales of Taipei poster
5.0

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.

Tales of Taipei

2024

Them, Behind the Door poster
5.6

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.

Them, Behind the Door

2024

You Are On My Mind poster
5.4

No synopsis available yet.

You Are On My Mind

2022

A Dance with Rainbows poster
4.0

At 20, Ling balances boxing and helping with her mother's lunchbox business, all while her family quietly unravels. Her parents fake harmony, but when her father brings home a new "girlfriend," the illusion is shattered. Refusing to look away, Ling endures the blows - bloodied and tear-streaked. In facing reality head-on, she discovers a deeper truth: only with honesty in her heart do her punches carry real weight.

A Dance with Rainbows

2026

Two Old Fellas poster
NR

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.

Two Old Fellas

2024

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Enter the Dumpling

2021

2010s · 14 titles

Gatao poster
6.1

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.

Gatao

2015

Back to the Good Times poster
6.2

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

Back to the Good Times

2018

The Ghost Tales poster
2.0

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.

The Ghost Tales

2012

When a Wolf Falls in Love with a Sheep poster
5.2

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.

When a Wolf Falls in Love with a Sheep

2012

The Boar King poster
6.0

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?

The Boar King

2014

Kara-Orchestra poster
NR

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

Kara-Orchestra

2015

Hotel Blackcat poster
NR

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.

Hotel Blackcat

2011

No artwork available
NR

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

Crossing The sentiMENtal Desert

2010

The Missing Piece poster
NR

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)

The Missing Piece

2015

She's Family poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

She's Family

2017

Someone in the Clouds poster
2.0

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.

Someone in the Clouds

2019

Ending Cut poster
NR

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.

Ending Cut

2010

Safety First poster
NR

Ah Quan makes a living as a laborer, earning money through physical work. In his spare time, he enjoys gambling, with mixed results—sometimes winning, but mostly losing. As a result, aside from making ends meet, his savings are pitifully small. It wasn't until his elderly father, Ah Dong (played by Peng Yi), began frequently going in and out of the hospital that most of his income had to be spent on his father's medical expenses, prompting him to gradually quit gambling. However, watching his father suffer from illness and dealing with the pressure from his wife, Qiu Rong (played by Huang Jiefei), Ah Quan decided to take a gamble once more, hoping for a turnaround. Unfortunately, on the same day, his father's life came to an end, leaving Ah Quan torn between using his father's funeral savings and his hopes of hitting the jackpot.

Safety First

2018

Tears poster
6.3

A detective seeks redemption after taking on an assignment involving the death of a girl.

Tears

2010

2000s · 7 titles

The Cabbie poster
7.2

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.

The Cabbie

2000

Miss Kicki poster
5.6

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.

Miss Kicki

2009

Betelnut Beauty poster
6.4

A cute coed leaves her mother's home and gets involved with a pastry chef who has links to the local criminal element.

Betelnut Beauty

2001

Comes the Black Dog poster
9.0

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.

Comes the Black Dog

2004

Lament of the Sand River poster
7.0

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.

Lament of the Sand River

2000

Da-Yu: The Touch of Fate poster
5.0

Da Yu, a 15-year-old boy, wanders aimlessly in the lonely city.

Da-Yu: The Touch of Fate

2006

Pure Accidents poster
NR

Tak-yuen, a 35-year-old office worker suffering from the seven-year itch, often fantasizes about how wonderful life would be if his wife, Lai-man, simply disappeared. But when she is accidentally kidnapped by a young couple on the run, his life is turned upside down.

Pure Accidents

2000

1990s · 7 titles

Dust of Angels poster
7.7

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.

Dust of Angels

1992

The Puppetmaster poster
6.6

Master puppeteer Li Tien-lu recalls his life in Japanese-occupied Taiwan during the first half of the 20th century.

The Puppetmaster

1993

Good Men, Good Women poster
7.0

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.

Good Men, Good Women

1995

A Borrowed Life poster
7.1

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.

A Borrowed Life

1995

Cop Abula poster
8.0

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.

Cop Abula

1999

Heartbreak Island poster
6.5

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.

Heartbreak Island

1995

Connection by Fate poster
7.0

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.

Connection by Fate

1998

Series credits

What the Hell Is Love poster
6.7

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...

What the Hell Is Love

2023

Say Yes Enterprise poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Say Yes Enterprise

2004

艋胛耀輝 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

艋胛耀輝

2011

The Year of Happiness and Love poster
9.5

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.

The Year of Happiness and Love

2009

Tavern by the Lethe poster
6.0

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.

Tavern by the Lethe

2021

Game Winning Hit poster
NR

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.

Game Winning Hit

2009

A Boy Named Flora A poster
7.1

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.

A Boy Named Flora A

2017

Shia Wa Se poster
NR

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?

Shia Wa Se

2016

LANG, Always by Your Side poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

LANG, Always by Your Side

2022

媽媽不見了 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

媽媽不見了

2017

必勝大丈夫 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

必勝大丈夫

2019