Tsai Jia-yin

Acting

Tsai Jia-yin

Born 1988-01-03

Tsai graduated from Department of Drama and Theatre, National Taiwan University. She became a performance guide in 2018 movie "Killed by Rock and Roll". When she was a college student, she was discovered to lead in a movie "Heavy Craving". Then she won the Best New Talent at 2019 Taipei Film Festival.

Acting credits

A Girl Out of the Country poster
NR

Feng runs away from her rural home to pursue singing in Taipei but is trafficked to Japan as a prostitute. Years later, she returns to Taiwan, burdened by guilt and avoiding her family while secretly sending money home. Her brother Ming, now a police officer, searches for her, unaware of the life she now leads. Their paths cross under difficult circumstances, forcing both siblings to confront their past and present.

A Girl Out of the Country

2024

Hello Ghost! poster
6.6

After a failed attempt to take his own life, a man discovers he's returned with four ghosts seeking to fulfil their last wishes in hopes of earning his own place in the afterlife.

Hello Ghost!

2023

Daughter's Daughter poster
7.9

Jin is in her 60s. Her husband gone, her concern is for daughter Zuer, in New York trying out IVF with her partner Michelle. When Jin receives news that Zuer and Michelle have died in an accident, she heads for NY. There, she has another shock: she has inherited Zuer’s embryo and it’s for her to decide its fate. Meanwhile, going to NY also forces Jin to face Emma, the daughter she gave up for adoption when she was 17.

Daughter's Daughter

2024

American Girl poster
6.8

When her mother gets sick, 13-year-old Fen moves back to Taiwan, where she struggles to fit in amid the 2003 SARS epidemic.

American Girl

2021

Rocked by the Wind poster
NR

In the Taiwanese countryside, a high school senior, Shuan, is passionate about playing guitar. One summer day, his parents argue heatedly about money. Pretending to attend the study group, Shuan escaped his household chores and went to the city to hang out with his bandmates. Later that day, a typhoon hit, bringing strong winds and heavy rain. Meanwhile, Shuan’s mother had not yet returned home, and his young sister was nowhere to be found.

Rocked by the Wind

2025

Heavy Craving poster
8.0

30-year-old Ying-Juan, who weights up to 105 kg, works at her mother’s childcare centre and has a hard time until she meets Wu, a deliveryman who bears a checkered past underneath his radiant smile. Encouraged by Wu, Ying-Juan finally decides to lose weight. Just when things are getting on the right track, devastatingly, Ying-Juan’s passion for cooking seems to be fading due to her over-aggressive diet.

Heavy Craving

2019

A Cockerel’s Tale poster
NR

Born into a stretch of furry yellow, then hand-picked by the man he adores, a young rooster, COCKEREL, begins his caged yet sensual life as a native chicken farm's breeder without even knowing.

A Cockerel’s Tale

2019

Lockdown Diary poster
NR

During the soft lockdown, many people once again got back in touch with their lives: a girl shot videos everyday to share with the woman who was to be her mother, a father who finally has time for his cat, a teenager who has to graduate through videoconferencing, an individual quarantining alone at home, and a director whose new film was put on hold. Everyone grows and adapts to the new normal, and subsequently bids farewell to their old life.

Lockdown Diary

2021

Repulsion poster
2.0

As his family home is set to be demolished during urban renewal, Hao decides to buy a new house with his inheritance from his father so as to get away from this sad place and start a new life elsewhere with his mother, Hsia. However, in the meantime, he finds out that Hsia has continued using the inheritance money to make political contributions, for she is such a political fanatic. Somehow, Hsia believes that only CHIANG Chung-Yao, the latest candidate running for mayor, can bring about a bright future for all. Eventually, Hao has chosen to hold his mother captive for fear that Hsia will be duped into giving away all the inherited assets.

Repulsion

2024

Live Stream from YUKI <3 poster
10.0

Yuki, a live streamer, comes across an unwanted guest when interacting with her audience. After an online party, she is destroyed by malice.The Golden Horse Award nominated creator Tsung-Han TSAI dedicate himself as writer and director of “Live Stream from YUKI <3 ”, his very first virtual reality experience. Through VR, the boundary between virtual world on internet and reality is no longer concrete. Annoying netizens, glamorous live streamer and audience behind the screen, will be able to know which is real and which is fallacious?

Live Stream from YUKI <3

2018

The Child of Nowhere poster
NR

An orphanage of various sounds. An ocean without witness of the crowds. The child of nowhere, longing for returning home.

The Child of Nowhere

2019