The success of Lan Yu has turned Hong Kong director Stanley Kwan, off the radar of late, into a hot item. Even the prestige of the two mainland China male leads formerly totally alien to Taiwanese viewers, Hu Jun and Liu Ye, has skyrocketed and they have become new cinema idols to the Taiwanese.
《藍宇》的成功讓沉寂了一陣子的香港導演關錦鵬再度炙手可熱，連兩位台灣觀眾十分陌生的大陸男主角胡軍與劉燁也身價暴漲，成了台灣人的電影新偶像。