Director Tsai Ming-liang, who won the Venice Film Festival's Golden Lion Award for his Vive L'amour, recalls that when he went to Sapporo, Japan to take part in a film festival, Vive L'amour was shown for a month in a little mom-and-pop theater with only 29 seats.
以《愛情萬歲》贏得威尼斯影展金獅獎的導演蔡明亮說，他到日本札幌參加影展時，《愛情萬歲》就在一家只有二十九個座位、由一對夫婦經營的小戲院放映了一個月，觀眾的成長率也很可觀。