Once the film was finished, Chang Chih-lang worried that Hong Kong audiences might be put off by so much dialogue in Taiwanese, and so he cut 30 minutes of it before showing it at the Hong Kong Film Festival.
但是拍攝完成，張之亮卻以監製名義，認為香港觀眾可能聽不懂劇中人物的閩南語，而自行修剪掉三十分鐘，在香港電影節放映。