With the strenuous backing of general manager Ming Chi and scriptwriters Hsiao Yeh and Wu Nien-chen, Central Motion Pictures went on to produce several films aimed at more than simply the dollar sign, among them Ch'en K'un-hou's "Growing Up" and Hou Hsiao-hsien and Tseng Chuang-hsiang's "The Sandwich Man," giving further impetus to the "new cinema."
接著，由明驥擔任總經理的中影公司，在製作企劃部編劇小野和吳念真等人的大力推動下，又連續開拍了幾部同樣不純粹以商業利益為目標的電影，其中陳坤厚導演的「小畢的故事」，侯孝賢、曾壯祥、萬仁聯合執導的「兒子的大玩偶」等片，更為「新電影」帶起另一波高潮。