Leon Dai
Date of birth: 1966-07-27
Place of birth: Taichung County, Taiwan
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Dai Li-zen, Dai Li-ren, Dai Liren, Dai Li-jen, 戴立忍
Biography
Leon Dai (Chinese: 戴立忍; pinyin: Dài Lìrěn; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tè Li̍p-jím, born 27 July 1966) is a Taiwanese actor and film director. His film Cannot Live Without You was Taiwan's submission to the 82nd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film. The film also won two awards at the 46th Golden Horse Film Awards.
Movie Credits
Yi Yi
2000-09-20
Each member of a family in Taipei asks hard questions about life's meaning as they live through ever
Buttonman
2008-12-05
Wei is “Button man”, an expert cleaner for the Chinese Mafia, a man who arrives after a murder, take
Sacrificial Victims
2004-01-01
Kara-Orchestra
2015-01-23
Double Vision
2002-10-17
An FBI Agent pairs with a troubled Taiwan cop to hunt for a serial killer who's embedding a mysterio
Black & White: The Dawn of Assault
2012-01-13
A policeman, who is fearless to death, can do anything for just one truth, while a gangster, who fea
One Afternoon
2021-11-04
A strict father and his two boys share a calm life in a creaky old home. One summer moment changes e
The Pact of Choshui River
1999-10-07
The Passage
2004-10-24
Passionate about life and art, young researcher Ching is in love with museum historian Tung-Heng, bu
Tempting Heart
1999-09-23
A female director decides to make a autobiographical film on her love life and we see it through the
Hidden Whisper
2000-11-11
The film consists of three stories: One about a 5-year-old girl, one about a teenager, and still ano
Soul
2013-08-30
Chuan, a quiet 30-year-old man working as a chef in a Japanese restaurant, collapses suddenly and is
Fall of Ming
2013-10-24
Control
2013-11-22
Mark, a man who commits perjury for his company in order to help his mother. However, he meets a mys
Parking
2008-05-23
On Mother's Day in Taipei, Chen Mo makes a date for dinner with his wife, hoping to bring their estr
Sweet Degeneration
1997-01-01
With a singular voice that distinguishes him from his New Taiwan Cinema contemporaries, Lin Cheng-sh
March of Happiness
1999-09-09
1945-1947, Taiwan. A teenage couple were deeply in love despite objections from the girl’s family. T
Robinson's Crusoe
2003-05-22
The film follows Robinson, a very succesfull real estate broker, who lives in a modern hotel in Taip
The Law of Attraction
2011-04-08
Country: China Production Company: Angel Wings Entertainment Genre: Drama Director: Zhao Tian Yu Sta
Blue Cha Cha
2005-09-16
Just coming out of the jail, depressed and close-hearted, Ah Yu met two men with different character
Tomorrow Is a Long Time
2024-01-19
Life is not the most fulfilling for sixteen-year-old Meng: Lounging at home with his grieving father
The Stone On the Corner
1997-12-31
Sex Appeal
2014-10-06
Huihua, a music school freshman, is raped by Professor Lee. She files a suit against him with the he
Ballistic
2008-11-28
Lawrence Lau directs Ballistic, a crime thriller that uses the turbulent world of Taiwanese politics
Secret Sharer
2014-06-27
On a rusting cargo ship in the South China Sea, it's the young Polish captain's first command. His m
Chopin
“Chopin” tells the story of Chopin Wu (played by Liu), who returns home to small-town America where
10 Plus 10
2011-12-16
10+10 is a project initiated by the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival to demonstrate the solidarity
Silk
2006-09-28
A scientist uses his invention - the "Menger Sponge" - to capture the energy of a dead child's spiri
The Assassin
2015-08-27
9th century China. Ten year old general’s daughter Nie Yinniang is abducted by a nun who initiates h
Somewhere Over the Dreamland
2003-04-20
Somewhere Over the Dreamland adopts a portmanteau form to provide a realistically poetic depiction o
The Cabbie
2000-10-10
After falling in love with a traffic cop, a cab driver commits as many traffic violations as he can
A Chance to Die
2000-04-29
Burned by the desire to avenge her dead boyfriend, a Japanese woman learns to shoot a gun, and goes
Bad Education
2023-03-03
On the night of their high school graduation, three delinquents decide to exchange their darkest, mo
B.T.S. (Better Than Sex)
2002-04-12
A web of connected stories on crime, sex, and love in Taiwan, including a 17 y.o. boy with a porn ob
Elena
2015-06-05
A violin teacher from a working-class background embarks on a brave journey in search of true love.
The Black Dog
2024-10-07
The Black Dog is about Mo, a husband and father, who worries a lot about losing his wife to cancer a
Kung Fu
2026-02-17
Two loser high school students meet a wandering old man with unparalleled martial arts skills. Toget
Where's the Dragon?
2015-10-23
The story follows a ten-year-old girl who teams up with animals from the Chinese Zodiac to search fo
Love in Vain
2016-03-11
A-Yan and Xiao-Yu are strangers, but they look just like twins. A-Yan is a country boy who comes to
The Fourth Portrait
2010-10-22
Ten year-old Xiang faces a lonely future after his father dies. Just when he thinks he's going to sp
Reign of Assassins
2010-09-01
Set in ancient China, Zeng Jing is a skilled assassin who finds herself in possession of a mystical
At Cafe 6
2016-07-14
One rainy night, a woman takes refuge in At Cafe 6 after an argument with her boyfriend. She strikes
Sentence Me Guilty
2015-10-02
The Chinese medical drama-thriller “Sentence Me Guilty” gives too much away in the early running and
Godspeed
2016-11-18
A Taiwanese drug mule has his foolproof smuggling method thrown out of whack when he catches a ride
Flame
1997-01-01
Jade is a 30-year-old reporter who is after the story that will make her career. It turns out that a
Fleeing by Night
2000-10-14
Set in China in the 1930s, the film is about the unsettling relationship between three characters, e
Red Lotus Society
1994-09-14
Ahda sells language tapes by day and attends cram school at night, but his real passion is to achiev
Blue Moon
1997-11-01
There is usually only one full moon every month, but occasionally there are two – and that second fu
The Wall-Passer
2007-07-03
In the not-too distant future, 17 year-old Tye and his family move to the burgeoning metropolis of R
The Great Buddha+
2017-10-13
Security guard Pickle and his trash collector friend Belly Button kill time together in night shifts
The Deadly Strands
2013-05-03
The Deadly Strands is a 2013 Chinese horror film directed by Zhao Xiaoxi. It stars Leon Dai, Zak Zha
The Moment: Fifty Years of Golden Horse
2016-03-04
In 2013, the Golden Horse Film Festival celebrated its 50th anniversary. The ministry of Culture com
挟刀揉手
2017-12-18
The Final Master
2015-12-10
Determined to pass down his art, the Final Master of Wing Chun is caught in a power struggle with ma
Your Name Engraved Herein
2020-09-30
In 1987, as martial law ends in Taiwan, Jia-han and Birdy fall in love amid family pressure, homopho
Visitors
2020-11-01
Han Yu-jie has been estranged from his father for a long time, but an incident in which a burglar br
The Noblest Way to Die
1992-12-01
The film uses Chinese actors to play the Japanese protagonist, uses Chinese perspectives to criticiz
Love Evolutionism
2014-08-15
An An (Guo Biting), a single young woman of marriageable age, is an ordinary white-collar worker in
Summer, Dream
2001-11-16
College student Hsiao Chih has been dreaming of studying abroad and having foreign affairs. His plan
Hot Blood Band
2015-01-19
To save a small business a group of outsiders decides to form a rock band.
Betelnut Beauty
2001-06-20
A cute coed leaves her mother's home and gets involved with a pastry chef who has links to the local
Peaceful Island
2016-07-29
浮華淡水
2000-01-01
A 2000 PTS TV movie.
Tán-thāi
2025-09-07