Just as audiences were becoming familiar with Lin's talents as a comic actor, he was beginning to live out his dream of becoming a director. In 1995 he got a grant for NT $ 4 million that allowed him to start shooting his first full-length drama, A Drifting Life.
林正盛富喜感的演出被觀眾認識，他的導演夢也同時實現，第一部作品《春花夢露》得到八十四年度四百萬元電影輔導金開拍。