Tou Tsung-hua

Acting

Tou Tsung-hua

Born

1962-10-10 (64)

Place of birth

Taipei, Taiwan

Known for

Acting

Credits

90 titles

Tou Tsung-hua was born on 10 October 1962 in Taipei, Taiwan. He is an actor, known for Lust, Caution (2007), Copycat Killer (2023) and Requital (1992). He was previously married to Si Chen. He won the 2005 Golden Bell Award for Best Actor.

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 11 titles

Weekend in Taipei poster
6.5

A former DEA agent and a former undercover operative revisit their romance during a fateful weekend in Taipei, unaware of the dangerous consequences of their past.

Weekend in Taipei

2024

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

The Canary's Lullaby poster
NR

In a storm-scared village, 70-year-old Tae lives a quiet life until she rescues Haru, a mysterious mountain creature. As she feeds and nurtures him with her wanzi, she finds a renewed sense of purpose. However, when rumors of a monster spread, fear turns the villagers against them. Tae is forcibly hospitalized, and Haru is hunted as a harbinger of disaster. To protect him, she stages a fake funeral. When a new storm strikes, Tae must learn that love is not possession but letting go.

The Canary's Lullaby

2026

Double Happiness poster
6.2

Tim Kao, the meticulous head chef of a five-star hotel in Taiwan, is set to marry his Hong Kong fiance Daisy Wu. But Tim’s divorced parents refuse to attend the same ceremony, and each insists on hosting their own. To complicate things further, the Feng Shui master chooses the same auspicious date for both events. Tim, Daisy, their wedding planner Regina, and the best man Tsai must orchestrate two weddings simultaneously in the same hotel, without either parent finding out. Surrounded by a strict father, a demanding mother, and a cast of sharp-tongued relatives, Tim must confront the traumas of his upbringing and ask himself: is he truly ready to start a new family of his own?

Double Happiness

2026

A Place Called Silence poster
6.8

Three students from Jing Mu Girls’ Middle School go missing and turn up dead. Xiao Tong, a special education student with speech impairment, feels like someone is watching her. During the rehearsal for the school’s foundation day event, a corpse falls from the ceiling of the auditorium, and Xiao Tong disappears in the midst of confusion. Her mother, Li Han, who has been working at the school to be close to Xiao Tong, begins her pursuit.

A Place Called Silence

2024

Pigsy poster
5.0

In the future, technology and mankind are fused together. The world’s largest corporation, “Nirvana Corporation”, implants a “Nirvana ID” into newborns that not only serve convenience functions such as identification and payment but also preserve every person’s complete life record. Set in the distant future, lazy and selfish Pigsy embarks on a journey of deceit and swindling in an effort to attain a better life, only to find out that true happiness is closer than you think.

Pigsy

2022

Last Night in Taipei poster
10.0

Blanche, Jake, and Axin went their separate ways six years ago, after sharing a close friendship and a dream of becoming actors. Since then, they've had no contact. What happened? Fate reunites them tonight in the heart of Taipei, but they only have a few hours to uncover the secrets hidden in each other’s hearts.

Last Night in Taipei

2026

Tomb Adventurer poster
6.5

After returning from the ancient city of Jingjue, Xue Li Yang found that the curse of ghost-eye erythema had afflicted her, and used a strategy to let King Hu Bayi, Fatty Wang and others go to the Longling Labyrinth to find the Dragon Bone Book, trying to lift the curse. Taking risks, encountering ancient mythical beasts, a giant catfish, the iron-headed dragon king, red-eyed wolves that feed on human bones, and fighting human-faced spiders, the road ahead is uncertain, whether they can escape…

Tomb Adventurer

2022

Get the Hell Out poster
6.0

A group, lead by a loser MP and his assistant, must work together to stay alive after a virus infects the Taiwanese parliament and turns them all into ravenous zombies.

Get the Hell Out

2020

Magical Super Asia: The Old Monk and The Cat Monster poster
NR

As the blood moon approaches, Wu Hui, an old monk who has spent his life vanquishing demons, investigates a series of brutal Cat Monster killings, only to encounter Bai Bing Wei, a cursed young man, and Die Zi, a thousand-year-old yokai, revealing devastating truth about good and evil.

Magical Super Asia: The Old Monk and The Cat Monster

2026

I Blew Out the Candles Before Making a Wish poster
NR

Young Jojo suddenly comes into a stack of casino chips worth a million and decides to pay off her runaway father’s debt, asking the down-on-his-luck debt collector Hua to gamble on her behalf. In Macau’s chaotic casinos, they form an unlikely alliance, navigating wins, losses, and life’s challenges together. When the final bet arrives, fate cruelly tests them, stripping them of everything, yet revealing the true gift life has been offering. I Blew Out the Candle Before Making a Wish explores money, family, and responsibility, capturing the shadows and resilience of human nature.

I Blew Out the Candles Before Making a Wish

2026

2010s · 12 titles

Godspeed poster
7.2

A Taiwanese drug mule has his foolproof smuggling method thrown out of whack when he catches a ride with the wrong cab driver.

Godspeed

2016

Dream Flight poster
5.8

The movie tells the real-life love story of Lt. Col. Lee Cheng-liang, a high profile Indigenous Defense Fighter (IDF) jet pilot, and his visually impaired wife, who are played by Taiwanese actor Bryant Chang and actress Tiffany Hsu, respectively.

Dream Flight

2014

Mojin: The Worm Valley poster
6.2

Legendary tomb explorer Hu Bayi is on a dangerous mission as he seeks out the Tomb of Emperor Xian, located on an island of monstrous creatures in this mystical action-adventure.

Mojin: The Worm Valley

2018

The Rope Curse poster
5.6

Hoping to make a viral video by streaming a mysterious rope ritual, a couple falls into a deadly curse instead that turns their lives upside down.

The Rope Curse

2018

First of May poster
7.0

Weaving two stories set 30 years apart, First of May is about a middle-aged man looking back at his teenage years, dreaming of his first and possibly only love. At the center of the drama is Bai, a 17-year-old student living with her single mother Wong Lei, and her grandmother. Bai gradually falls for her admirer/stalker Yeh, who is always walking behind her and her best friend Wen Wen wherever they go.

First of May

2015

The Outsiders poster
7.2

Pei Yu Yen has her whole life ahead of her. Raised in a sheltered environment by her father who is a professor, she is prim and proper and typical good student. However, her life is akin to a canary bird in a cage until the day she met Yu Hao. He is boy caught in a brawl with gangsters on the street. He is the boy who rushed into the classroom to thank her. He is the boy who stopped the bus to give her a love letter. They may be further apart than any two people in the world, but he cannot resist the urge to reach out to her to see her smile again.

The Outsiders

2018

Anywhere Somewhere Nowhere poster
9.0

Lee and his friend plan to travel round the island of Taiwan when they both face their biggest challenges in life.

Anywhere Somewhere Nowhere

2014

We Are Champions poster
6.9

Bonded by blood but divided by basketball, two brothers become rivals on the court. This exciting sports film balances drama on and off the court.

We Are Champions

2019

Soul poster
6.1

Chuan, a quiet 30-year-old man working as a chef in a Japanese restaurant, collapses suddenly and is rushed to a hospital. His colleagues send him to his father, who resides in the mountains. While there, Chuan becomes immobile: he won’t speak, eat or even go to the toilet on his own. One day his father returns from work only to find Chuan sitting in the corner with his daughter lying dead in a pool of blood. In an unfamiliar, eerily calm voice, Chuan says, “I saw this body was empty, so I moved in.

Soul

2013

Bear It poster
4.0

The disappearance of three teddy bears brings eight lonely hearts together. Tiring of serving people, Peter, a tour guide, brings Teddy Bears that are considered as families or pets to their owners to travel abroad. On his way to pick up a Teddy Bear, a car accident happens. All 3 Bears are missing. To stall for time and money, Peter needs to figure out how to continue this unusual trip right away...

Bear It

2012

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

The Sweet Place poster
8.0

When a single-father mechanic bumps into a pungent massage girl, a buzzard encountering becomes a marginal romance.

The Sweet Place

2016

2000s · 7 titles

Lust, Caution poster
7.3

During World War II, a secret agent must seduce, then assassinate an official who works for the Japanese puppet government in Shanghai. Her mission becomes clouded when she finds herself falling in love with the man she is assigned to kill.

Lust, Caution

2007

Parking poster
6.3

On Mother's Day in Taipei, Chen Mo makes a date for dinner with his wife, hoping to bring their estranged relationship back together. While buying a cake on his way home, a car unexpectedly double parks next to his car, preventing his exit.

Parking

2008

July Rhapsody poster
6.5

Secondary school teacher Lam Yiu-kwok is suffering from a mid-life crisis—his peers have all become more successful than him; his relationship with his wife, Chan Man-ching, is in trouble when her old flame returns, and he finds himself tempted by a 17-year-old student who has a crush on him.

July Rhapsody

2002

Do Over poster
3.0

Do Over follows five characters over twenty four hours on the last day of the year. As the interrelated stories proceed, the connections between the lives of the five characters begin to reveal themselves and their stories unravel. By depicting five different characters at emotional crossroads, Do Over examines the struggle of overcoming our greatest fears; the unknown of what lies ahead in the future, the fading value of our existence in the present, and most of all, irreversible mistakes made in the past that may catch up to us.

Do Over

2006

The Warrior and the Wolf poster
4.2

Set during China's the Warring States Period (476-221 BC), benevolent warrior Chenkang Lu (Joe Odagiri) enters into a torrid love affair with a woman (Maggie Q) from the nomadic Harran tribe. Their relationship sends the warrior to a place where humans were once wolves...

The Warrior and the Wolf

2009

Love's Lone Flower poster
4.5

A woman falls in love with two different girls, both singers - one in Shanghai during the late 1940s, the other in Taiwan during the late 1950s.

Love's Lone Flower

2005

Back for Your Life poster
NR

Hong Kong movie

Back for Your Life

2000

1990s · 17 titles

Island of Fire poster
6.3

Someone in a prison run by a corrupt warden fakes the deaths of convicts to later use them as expendable assassins. A police officer is sent into the prison to gather evidence of the corruption.

Island of Fire

1991

Zodiac Killers poster
4.7

Hong Kong student Ben Lee becomes friends with his mainland Chinese classmate Chang Chih while studying abroad in Japan. Ben is unmotivated to study and only cares about money and on the other hand, whenever Chih encounters a Chinese person, he would ask whereabouts of his childhood sweetheart. Ming is also from Hong Kong and in order to elevate his social status, he becomes involved with a bar hostess and owner Yuriko, hoping to become Yakuza leader Yamada Ishikawa's brother in-law.

Zodiac Killers

1991

Butterfly and Sword poster
5.6

A loyalist attempts to keep the King's empire from being overthrown by a revolutionary group.

Butterfly and Sword

1993

1941 Hong Kong on Fire poster
4.2

A family suffers at the hands of the Japanese during the occupation of Hong Kong. On December 25, 1941, the Japanese army occupied Hong Kong. The pawnshop owner, Luo Kai has three daughters, the eldest daughter Wangdi, the second daughter Xindi, and the youngest daughter Aidi. When the Japanese army captured Kowloon, Aidi was violently tortured by the Japanese army and suffered a mental disorder. Xindi followed his lover Shen Fang to rescue the wounded in the temporary hospital. In order to curry favor with the Japanese army, Luo Kai did not hesitate to sacrifice his eldest daughter Wangdi. However, not long after he became a traitor, his second daughter Xindi was attracted by a Japanese military officer. Luo Kai finally couldn't bear to fight against Wangdi to stop him. In the chaos...

1941 Hong Kong on Fire

1994

The Christ of Nanjing poster
6.3

Ryuichi Okagawa, a Japanese writer who worked as a reporter in China has been sick ever since his return home. While in China, Okagawa had met a devoutly religious girl named Jin-hua. Okagawa was born with a predisposition to agonizing recurrent migraines, but found happiness with Jin-hua and married her. Unfortunately, he already had a wife in Japan, and this revelation crushed Jin-hua. When Okagawa returned home, leaving Jin-hua behind, she was forced to work as a prostitute, catching both a severe case of the flu and a rather less socially acceptable condition. Meanwhile, Okagawa's guilt has torn him apart enough for him to return to China in an attempt to bring Jin-hua home with him to get medical attention, but the girl is already too far gone for his help.

The Christ of Nanjing

1995

Loving You poster
6.0

A man re-evaluates his life after being given a second chance. When seedy cop Liu Chen-hai is shot, he is forced to do some soul-searching about his old life.

Loving You

1995

End of the Road poster
7.0

Fan Long (played by Liang Chaowei), the staff officer of the National Army, escaped from the captive camp and returned to the National Army camp through all the difficulties. The soldier Ading (played by Lin Zhiying) also returned to the army, and the veteran Lao Xie (played by Wu Mengda) gave him the care of the Ading brother who lost his comrades-in-arms. Commander He of the National Army (played by Ke Junxiong) negotiated with the Myanmar side and tried to put down his weapons and return to it. Fan Long planned to save some of the weapons, but the Myanmar side killed the National Army. It all relied on Fan Long, and the National Army was able to break through. However, the team soon differentiated. Fan Long and others defected to the bandits, and Commander He led the rest to submit to the Thai government. The soldiers of the National Army who were exiled to the Golden Triangle launched an outstanding struggle for survival

End of the Road

1993

Requital poster
5.6

A young Taiwanese man after being released from prison starts his life as a gangster. He goes to Hong Kong to do some business with the Triads.

Requital

1992

Lover's Tears poster
8.0

When architect Kam Ming-sang is accidentally shot in the head as a result of bad judgement by his police officer friend Lam Long, he survives but lapses into a deep coma.

Lover's Tears

1996

A Home Too Far poster
7.9

In 1950s, Chinese Civil War ends with the defeat of Republic of China and the establishment of Communist China. The 93rd Division's soldiers take their families with them, exit southwestern China and enter northern Burma (Myanmar). The hike through forest is full of disasters and short of supplies, but the survivors reach and settle within border of Burma. They build a village, and ally with local armed gang to resist Burmese government's attacks. Later, the relocated government of Republic of China offers to take the soldiers and dependents to Taiwan, but some are disappointed with the government and decide to stay.

A Home Too Far

1990

Siao Yu poster
7.3

Siao Yu needs a green card. Mario Moretti needs his debts paid. Getting married could solve their problems, or multiply them.

Siao Yu

1995

Wolves Cry Under the Moon poster
4.2

Episodic drama from Taiwan. Was nominated for nine awards at the Golden Horse Film Festival.

Wolves Cry Under the Moon

1997

18 poster
4.8

A multi-lingual tour guide who owns multiple passports one day drives his wife and daughter to a desolate seashore town and checks in a secluded, spacious, ruins-like hotel. From that moment on, he throws himself into gambling, tossing the dice with local residents all day. Sometimes he wins big, but sometimes he loses all. Feeling neglected and uncomfortable, his wife and daughter soon leave him and return home. He stays and wanders in this fishing village and gradually immerses himself in the surroundings—a place rife with immoral vagabonds, outlaws and weirdoes.

18

1993

The Magic Sword poster
8.0

WO Chinese warlords are fighting each other. Then there is a blacksmith who finds out how to make steel and the tragedy begins. He is forced to make steel, but to make the amount of steel for an army it is very difficult and lot of people must die. This big budget swords play-fantasy new wave martial arts movie was well made and is not only a movie for martial arts movie fans.

The Magic Sword

1993

King Swindler poster
5.2

Sammo is a single father and scam artist that uses his son in his scams. He's an alcoholic with gambling problems that likes to fight. He gets arrested, and the woman who arrests him looks after his son while he's in jail.

King Swindler

1993

The Day the Sun Turned Cold poster
5.8

Guan Jian wants to report the murder of his father who died 10 years ago. The alleged murderer whom Guan Jian accuses of the crime is his own mother.

The Day the Sun Turned Cold

1994

The Warning of Taiwan Strait War poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Warning of Taiwan Strait War

1995

1980s · 8 titles

1970s · 4 titles

Undated · 1 titles

Series credits

The Fixers poster
6.6

A washed-up gangster reluctantly teams up with an arrogant political heir to become "fixers", cleaning up dangerous secrets for both sides of the law.

The Fixers

2026

Copycat Killer poster
7.8

When a spate of grisly murders throws a city into chaos, a tenacious prosecutor must brace for a cat-and-mouse game against a dangerous manipulator.

Copycat Killer

2023

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

My Little Princess poster
7.9

When you're trying to win over your Prince Charming, can you find him in an unexpected place? Lin Xing Chen is an heiress of a wealthy family but faces pressure to marry well because of her illegitimate status. Her target? The wealthy Zheng Chu Yao, a fellow student at the elite arts school known as Four Leaf College. But due to a number of misunderstandings, Xing Chen at first mistakes the brooding Jiang Nian Yu as Chu Yao and tries to get his attention.

My Little Princess

2016

A Soul Haunted by Painting poster
6.0

Pan Yuliang struggles as a courtesan to a concubine as she navigates her path to success in the art world as a painter.

A Soul Haunted by Painting

2003

Faith & Fire poster
NR

A former national security agent, haunted by his comrade’s death, retreats into a quiet life as a fish vendor. But when duty calls, he goes undercover in a Taiwanese gang to expose a smuggling network, only to find himself caught between violent turf wars and the high-stakes dangers of espionage.

Faith & Fire

2025

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

Bromance poster
6.7

Could anyone be more excited to reach her 25th birthday? Pi Yanuo had an inauspicious start to her life. Doomed to live her life as a boy, Yanuo is shy and always tries to keep her distance to people to hide her true identity, and the mysterious aloofness makes her irresistible to the girls around her. With her 26th birthday fast approaching, will Yanuo find her much-anticipated return to being a female will be as easy as she had hoped?

Bromance

2015

Thank you for having loved me poster
10.0

Academy Awards best screenplay nominee Hui-Ling Wang's first television screenplay after Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

Thank you for having loved me

2007

Bao Sangu's Biography poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Bao Sangu's Biography

2010

Crystal Boys poster
5.5

A-Qing, a sensitive youth in 1971 Taipei, is expelled from school and rejected by his family after a same-sex relationship with classmate Zhao Ying is discovered. Alone and searching for belonging, he begins spending time at New Park, a gathering place for gay men, where he meets friends and fellow outsiders navigating love, desire, and survival in a society that ostracizes them. Through his experiences and those of his peers, the story explores identity, friendship, longing, and the struggle for acceptance, offering a nuanced portrait of Taiwan’s gay subculture in the early 1970s and the bonds that sustain a marginalized community.

Crystal Boys

2003

Trick or Love poster
7.0

Liang Jing Cen’s family happily looked forward to the re-opening of "Mélanger Bakery". Unexpectedly, the landlord suddenly informed them that the store had been sold. The Liang family planned to buy the bakery, but the new owner raised the price to make things difficult. When Jing Cen fell into despair, Guan Heng Wei suddenly appeared, willing to help her with the rest of the funds. The only condition was that she pretends to be a man and become his fake boyfriend in order to avoid his grandma's forced marriage. In order to buy back the bakery, Jing Cen signed this strange contract, but she did not expect that all of this was carefully arranged by Guan Heng Wei...

Trick or Love

2023

幸福街第3号出口 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

幸福街第3号出口

2013

医神华佗 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

医神华佗

2004

Love Yourself poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Love Yourself

2023

Memory Eclipse poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Memory Eclipse

2020

特战先锋 poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

特战先锋

2010

像小朵一样 poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

像小朵一样

2013

谁懂女儿心 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

谁懂女儿心

2009

CODE poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

CODE

2016

No artwork available
NR

Ever since little, Ruan Shi Zhi has always been on the receiving end of bullying. At 18, he decides to shed his pitiful past with a new beginning. Yet the moment he steps into his summer class, he is immediately confronted by a group of classmates whom he usually avoids like a plague. Just when he wants to run out of there, an angel-like girl walks in. He falls deeply in love with her. And for love, he tells himself he has to become tougher. He must find a way to survive in this dangerous place, transform himself, and defeat all his love rivals to win the girl's heart.

我要變成硬柿子

2007

Master Sleuth Ke Lan poster
NR

Ke Lan is a newspaper reporter with a traumatic childhood memory who helps the police solve a series of gruesome murder cases with his amazing investigation and deduction skills during 1930s Shanghai.

Master Sleuth Ke Lan

2001

Tears in Heaven poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Tears in Heaven

1998

血刃 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

血刃

2013

神医华佗 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

神医华佗

2004

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

曹雪芹

2003

A Second Chance of Life poster
NR

Chu Yi, a cancer survivor, founded the "Blood Warriors" support group with a dream of recruiting 100,000 young people to register as stem cell donors. Along with fellow survivors, they embark on a journey, embracing life with resilience and hope, determined to keep their flames burning brightly.

A Second Chance of Life

2024

敌后便衣队 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

敌后便衣队

2012

北京遇上西雅图 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

北京遇上西雅图

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都市情缘 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

都市情缘

2005