Ming-shiou Tsai
Also Known As: 蔡明修, Tsai Ming-Hsiu, Tsai Ming-Shiou, Jiede Cai, Chieh-de Tsai, Jiede Tsai, Ming Xiu Tsai, Ming-Hsiu Tsai
Biography: Tsai Ming Shiou (Chinese: 蔡明修, born 4 September 1953) is a Taiwanese actor.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Birthday: September 04, 1953
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Taipei Suicide Story
Overview: A receptionist at a suicide hotel in Taipei forms a fleeting friendship over the course of one night with a guest who can’t decide if she wants to live or die.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2020-10-28
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Their Heaven
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Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2017-04-21
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American Girl
Overview: When her mother gets sick, 13-year-old Fen moves back to Taiwan, where she struggles to fit in amid the 2003 SARS epidemic.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2021-12-03
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Night Shift
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2022-06-04
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Antikalpa
Overview: Ah Dai comes from a family that runs a prestigious orthodox temple. His childhood sweetheart, Yufan, is desperate to locate her missing aunt. In his attempt to help, Ah Dai agrees to participate in a special ritual that his schoolmates believe could help them seek assistance from the gods to grant their desires. However, they are lured into praying to evil forces instead. As his schoolmates die one after another, Ah Dai tries to use his gift to exorcise evil to save his friends. At the very end, he faces a completely demonized Yufan and must fight her to save the neighborhood.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2023-06-21
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The Absence
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2024-01-05
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How are you feeling
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2023-05-27
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Hello! Tapir
Overview: 8-year-old Ah Keat sets off in search of the mythical nightmare-eating creature in the forest, hoping it will bring his father back to life.
Genres: Animation Drama Fantasy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2022-02-01
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The Present
Overview: A married man on a business trip checks into a hotel. The hotel manager’s daughter falls for him at first sight. Rejected by the man, she embarks on a journey of revenge...
Genres: Animation Horror
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2013-03-01
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The Laundryman
Overview: A-Gu enlists a group of contract killers in the disguise of laundry service. One of them, code-named "No.1 Qingtian Street", is haunted by the ghosts of his victims. He seeks help from Lin Hsiang, a psychic.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Thriller Crime
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2015-08-20
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Life For Sale
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Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2022-04-29
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The Blackout Village
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Genres: Drama Comedy Horror
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2011-06-26
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Dead & Beautiful
Overview: A group of young and spoiled rich kids turn into vampires after a night out, changing the course of their lives and driving a wedge between them all.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-12-03
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10 Plus 10
Overview: 10+10 is a project initiated by the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival to demonstrate the solidarity between Taiwanese film-makers. 20 directors are invited to make a 5-minute short film each on the theme of the “Uniqueness of Taiwan,” but allowed total freedom in all other aspects.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2011-11-04
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The Thorn
Overview: During an illegal logging process, A Yuan fainted outside the forest, and then the wounds on his body gradually changed. The mutation of his body affects A Yuan's physical and mental perception. As the mutation goes out of control, in this unknown and mysterious state, he finally has to face himself and make a choice...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2018-01-01
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Little Yellow Flower
Overview: When A-nan looks at his paralyzed father in bed with ants crawling all over his body, it brings back painful childhood memories. Can he restore the long-frozen father-son relationship?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2022-06-30
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Fantasy · World
Overview: A cold, hard-nosed lawyer, Zhang, discovers that his past client, Tang, is involved in yet another case of sexual assault. Thirteen years ago, Zhang was a rookie and mentored by a senior lawyer, Tu. Young and ambitious as Zhang was, his outstanding performance successfully helped Tang exonerated from the charge. However, the brutal cross-examination on the victim inevitably became his nightmare. After so many years, tormented by guilt, Zhang finally has the opportunity to atone for his mistakes and avenge the girl he loved. Challenged by Tu and Tang, he decides to pursue justice at any cost.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2022-10-07
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The Free Man
Overview: He is an ex-con who tries to turn over a new leaf by working at a laundry store.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2014-10-01
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The Abandoned
Overview: When a mysterious corpse is found in a river, a distressed police officer delves into a string of grisly murders as danger quickly approaches.
Genres: Drama Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2023-09-08
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A Boxing Coach
Overview: Kai, whose father used to be a national boxer and uncle teaches boxing at school, is fond of boxing. Kai and his uncle have, nevertheless, secretly participated in competitions though he is strictly forbidden to do so, and eventually lead to a cruel and contradictory outcome.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2022-10-15
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Days Before the Millennium
Overview: In the 1990s, many young women from Southeast Asia, carrying their hopes and dreams, were married off to this faraway island of riches... Through a two-part narrative, the film contrasts the past and the present of Taiwanese society. Can these immigrant women across different eras break free from their predicaments in this foreign land to rediscover themselves? Can they as well as the locals, live truly free lives?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2022-07-22
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With or Without You
Overview: After her mother died, the youngest daughter has been dreaming about her dead mother for nights. In the dreams, her mother expresses her will not to be buried next to her dead husband. On the seventh night after the mother’s death, the hidden past of the family was finally revealed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2008-10-23
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Taipei 24H
Overview: Taipei 24H divides 24 hours in Taipei into 8 shorts. It opens with Cheng Fen-fen's upbeat and comedic "Share the Morning", and ends with Lee Kang-sheng running the final leg of this relay with "Remembrance" at 4am. Well-known director Tsai Ming-liang makes a rare appearance visiting a late night coffee shop. Taipei 24H is a contemporary urban chronicle of a city rarely at sleep.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2009-10-09
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Mickey on the Road
Overview: Mickey is a twenty-something Taiwanese woman: sporting short hair, a baseball cap, and impressive tattoos, she’s both tough and depressed. Her best friend, Gin Gin, is an ultra-femme bleached blonde go-go dancer. Gin discovers she’s pregnant while her boyfriend is ghosting her. Since he’s also in Guangzhou, Micky and Gin Gin decide to head out on the road together. After their luggage is stolen, they’re taken in by a stranger and introduced to a glitzy, bizarrely otherworldly urban metropolis, and their road trip takes several strange and frightening turns.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2020-11-27
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City Of Sleepwalkers
Overview: Dan tries to find his lost girlfriend, and he’s deeply obsessed with his memory.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2010-05-07
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Shell of Men
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Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2024-04-28
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Sprout to Death
Overview: A zombie fearing his gradual decay immerses himself daily in formaldehyde. He relies on reading and painting to maintain a sense of freshness in body, mind, and spirit. Initially hoping to survive in society through his artistic talents, he never encounters any opportunities until one day, he secures a job at a flower shop.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2024-06-23
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Soul of a Demon
Overview: Che (Tseng Yi-che) returns to Nanfang’ao fishing port after taking the rap for younger bro Ren’s (Cheng Yu-jen) stabbing of the son of local mobster Shun (Hsu Ling-tsang). Ren is also back from hiding in Japan with their father, Chang (Michio Hayashida), who is due to return to settle a score with Shun.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2008-06-13
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A Journey in Spring
Overview: An old man with a limp, Khim-Hok, has depended on his wife over the years. They live in an old house on the urban fringe of Taipei. After his wife suddenly passes away, Khim-Hok puts her into an old freezer and goes on living a seemingly peaceful life. But their long-estranged son and his new partner suddenly appears, so Khim-Hok has to face his wife's death when the end finally comes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2024-11-22
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Welcome to the Happy Days
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Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2015-07-18
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The Best of Times
Overview: Although their characters and temperaments couldn't be less alike, 19-year olds Wei and Jie are best friends. They're also neighbours, living with widower fathers and problem siblings in the suburbs of Taipei. When Wei is promoted from the rank of nightclub parking valet to the rank of debt-collector in Brother Gu's gang, he persuades his boss to hire Jie to work alongside him. Things begin to go wrong when they are given a handgun to reward their success in the new job. Always excitable and volatile, Jie becomes reckless and dangerous when he has the gun in his hand. When they try to collect a debt from the boss of a rival gang, a fight erupts and Jie shoots the gang-boss. The boys find themselves on the run. But fate and their youthful dreams still have tricks to play.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2002-09-20
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A Breath from the Bottom
Overview: The President is on his way to an important conference. A-Ho the gendarme, for his possible promotion, is trying all he can to avoid any disorders, keeping his watchful eyes on the protesters…
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2012-10-30
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Is LIFE a Movie
Overview: As the actress arrived, everything about the movie, about the life of director and actress, and about the affection between professor and his student, were revealed and punctured one after another. In the hazy fuzzy afternoon, there is nothing left on the dining table outside the cabin but four-cornered souls; the bandit in the director's movie was also beset in the bank as a trapped beast.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2018-07-23
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Exit
Overview: After losing her job as a garment worker, Ling sees her prospects dim dramatically: in her mid forties, she lives in a small, dilapidated apartment in the Taiwanese city of Kaohsiung and spends much of her time locked in arguments with her testy daughter. Her elderly mother is ailing in hospital. On one of her many visits to the ward she notices an injured man and tentatively starts to care for him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2014-04-01
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Darkness and Light
Overview: A 17-year-old university student returns home during her summer holidays to the port city of Keelung of on the outskirts of Taipei. She falls in love with a young man, but his association with a local gang sees him caught up in a turf war. A wistful portrayal of the fragile, brief-lived attraction between these two youths, and pleasant times spent with loving families.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1999-11-26
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Ah-Chung
Overview: The story concerns a male youth named Ah Chung (or Diong-ah in the Taiwanese dialect) who graduates from high school and descends into a maelstrom of personal, familial, and communal conflicts. Ah Chung is going through the liminal stage of finding his place and aim in life. He is sent by his mother to a boot camp, training as one of the Eight Generals. This is a job in performing as a god in Taiwanese popular rituals and Ah Chung's mother believes it can bring spiritual and social goodwill to the much-troubled family: Financially strained mother who is a performer of "low-brow" entertainment, a kid brother who is somewhat retarded, a half-sister who is raped by his alcoholic father, and Ah Chung's listlessness which is easily sucked in by the local gang rivalry...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1996-12-31
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There
Overview: The old grandpa has passed away. The Indonesia caregiver, Shally, helps to hold the funeral with grandma and uncle. However, none of the children come home. Under such circumstances, Shally is forced to be one of the family members.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2020-03-15
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Little Hilly
Overview: Hilly is a 10-year-old silent Taiwanese girl. Nobody cares about her depression and the pressure she suffers. Hilly hates that she always oppresses herself, and also hates the world controlled by adults. What does Hilly really want to speak to the adults?
Genres: Animation
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2020-10-24
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The Roar
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Genres: TV Movie Drama Family
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2018-09-30
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Mom and Me
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Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2019-02-19
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Moneyboys
Overview: Fei works illegally as a hustler in order to support his family, yet when he realizes they are willing to accept his money but not his way of life, there is a major breakdown in their relations. Through his relationship to the headstrong Long, Fei seems able to find a new lease on life, but then he encounters Xiaolai, the love of his youth, who confronts him with the guilt of his repressed past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2021-11-19
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100 Days
Overview: When a cold hearted telecommunications executive returns to his small island town for his estranged mother's burial, he learns about the true Taiwanese tradition that mandates him to marry within 100 days so that the parent's spirit can transition peacefully. When a typhoon leaves him stranded for 3 days, he rekindles romance with his free spirited, childhood sweetheart who is engaged to marry a local villager/step brother.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2013-11-01
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Night Bus
Overview: Late night, a commuter bus was speeding along the coastal highway when, suddenly, a loud and panicky scream pierced the night’s silence. This wealthy and elderly lady had just woken to find her precious necklace stolen. What follows was a series of intriguing turn of events, chaotic mob justice, vengeful lynching, as the truth behind the theft unfolds. The film climaxes as the commuter bus went ablaze, burning and glittering against the pitch-dark coastal sky.
Genres: Animation Thriller Horror
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2019-10-20
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The Black Dog
Overview: The Black Dog is about Mo, a husband and father, who worries a lot about losing his wife to cancer and raising their 10-year-old daughter alone. His daughter finds him crying out in his sleep.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2024-10-07
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