Boya has appeared in a number of Taiwanese films and TV dramas, his first film role in Sung Pe Liu's Angels of Vengeance (1993).
In 2011, he starred as Temu Walis in Wei Te-sheng's historical epic, Seediq Bale (2011), which was split into two parts in some jurisdictions: Part 1 (The Sun Flag) and Part 2 (The Rainbow Bridge).