In 1987 Wang Shau-di, Sylvia Chang and Chin Kuo-chao each directed one segment of the three-part The Game They Called Sex, but Wang didn't direct her own full-length feature presentation until after her student Tsai Ming-liang and protege Chen Yu-hsun had already made films of their own.
一九八七年，王小棣與張艾嘉、金國釗合導了三段故事的《黃色故事》，但真正全面編導自己的電影，卻比她的學生蔡明亮、徒弟陳玉勳都晚。