Later, as a planner of the International Film Festival, Chen Kuo-fu took a group of foreign film critics to the set where Hou Hsiao-hsien's A Time to Live and a Time to Die was being filmed, to meet the cast and crew.
後來陳國富因策劃國際影展，帶著國外影評人去《童年往事》片場探班，認識了侯孝賢。