Photo: Billy WuForty years after its premiere, the film has become the Taiwan Film and Audiovisual Institute’s (TFAI) 100th restoration. Indeed, according to Chu Taiwan’s film industry in the 1970s and 1980s was mostly controlled by organized crime. Professor Robert Chen (陳儒修) of National Chengchi University’s Department of Radio and Television says that there was no awareness at the time of the importance of film preservation. But Taiwan’s lack of major studios and the absence of a legal mandate for film preservation meant that original negatives were scattered and difficult to trace. Aside from Tainan National University of the Arts’ lone graduate program, there is no comprehensive training in film preservation.

Source: Taipei Times January 08, 2026 16:32 UTC