He recommenced adapting such novels as Huang's The Sandwich Man and A Flower in the Rainy Night, Chen Ying-chen's Clouds, and Yang Ching-chu's In Meinan, but the proposals were rejected one after another and so after a while he started spending most of his time on the job reading.
他建議把「兒子的大玩偶」、「看海的日子」、陳映真的「雲」和楊青矗的「在室男」等小說搬上銀幕，沒有一個獲准。