Ming-shiou Tsai

Ming-shiou Tsai

Nascimento : 1953-09-04, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

História

Tsai Ming Shiou (Chinese: 蔡明修, born 4 September 1953) is a Taiwanese actor.

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Ming-shiou Tsai

Filmes

Antikalpa
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.
A Boxing Coach
Old Tsai
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.
Fantasy · World
The driver
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.
Night Shift
Life For Sale
Mr. Wang
Hello! Tapir
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.
Dead & Beautiful
Shaman
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.
Garota Americana
Tsai
Tendo que sair dos EUA após sua mãe ser diagnosticada com câncer de mama, Fen, de treze anos, luta para se ajustar à vida em Taipei. Enquanto Fen percorre seu caminho pela escola e se reconecta com seu pai há muito separado, seu vínculo turbulento com sua mãe piora. Fen se afasta ainda mais de sua mãe por meio de uma série de atos rebeldes antes que sua irmã mais nova seja diagnosticada com SARS, empurrando Fen e sua mãe para um confronto acalorado e de longa gestação
Moneyboys
Fei's Uncle Liu
Fei trabalha ilegalmente como traficante para sustentar sua família, mas quando percebe que eles estão dispostos a aceitar seu dinheiro, mas não seu modo de vida, há um grande colapso em suas relações. Através de seu relacionamento com o teimoso Long, Fei parece capaz de encontrar um novo sopro de vida, mas então ele encontra Xiaolai, o amor de sua juventude, que o confronta com a culpa de seu passado reprimido.
Little Yellow Flower
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?
Mickey on the Road
As jovens Mickey e Gin Gin são melhores amigas e tentam sobreviver no sul de Taiwan. Quando Gin Gin orquestra um plano para encontrar Jay, o homem dos seus sonhos, na cidade de Cantão, na China, Mickey decide segui-la, determinada a encontrar o pai que a abandonou anos atrás.
Taipei Suicide Story
Shi-Yi
O recepcionista de um hotel suicida em Taipei, Taiwan, cria uma amizade passageira ao longo de uma noite com uma hóspede que não consegue decidir se quer viver ou morrer.
Little Hilly
Father
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?
There
Uncle
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.
Night Bus
Driver
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.
Mom and Me
Uncle
The Roar
Kun
Is LIFE a Movie
The Robber
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.
The Thorn
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...
Their Heaven
Car wash predecessor
Welcome to the Happy Days
Chuan
The Free Man
He is an ex-con who tries to turn over a new leaf by working at a laundry store.
Exit
Clothes company boss
Ling é uma trabalhadora do setor de vestuário. Seu marido, está trabalhando em Xangai e sua filha, não tem o menor interesse em gastar algum tempo com a mãe. Ling observa as texturas da rotina diária completamente sozinha, enquanto sente o envelhecimento no horizonte. Sua vida é uma queimadura lenta construída por uma acumulação de condições familiares e modernas, que Ling mal consegue registrar o seu próprio pânico subterrâneo. Até que de forma desorientada, ela nos mostra camadas de impulsos ilegíveis cutucando contra a dormência, uma mulher que vê sua própria vida secando e silenciosamente tenta algum tipo de liberação... Vencedor dos prêmios de 'Melhor Narrativa' e 'Melhor Atriz' (Shiang-chyi), no Taipei Film Festival.
100 Days
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.
The Present
Voice
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...
A Breath from the Bottom
Tsai Ming-Shiou
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…
The Blackout Village
10 Plus 10
Brothers (segment "The Ritual")
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.
City Of Sleepwalkers
Bus driver
Dan tries to find his lost girlfriend, and he’s deeply obsessed with his memory.
Taipei 24H
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.
Soul of a Demon
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.
The Best of Times
Uncle
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.
Darkness and Light
Kang-yi's father
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.
Ah-Chung
Father
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...
With or Without You
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.