In 1956, he wrote his first screenplay in Taiwanese, Rainy Night Flowers, and also set up the Chunghsing Taiwanese Experimental Theater Troupe. In 1964 his movie Please Forgive Me took the best film prize at the ROC-Made Taiwanese-Language Film Festival, and Lost Love Highway took the prize for best screenplay; the same year, Hsin Chi was voted one of the ten best directors by cinema audiences.
一九五六年首度參與台語片《雨夜花》的編劇，並創辦「中興台語實驗劇團」；一九六四年以《求你原諒》獲「國產台語影片展覽會」最佳影片，《悲戀公路》獲最佳劇本獎，並榮獲讀者票選十大導演。