When Liang Shan-po and Chu Ying-t'ai was first shown on Taiwan, back in 1963, it was all the rage. It played in theaters for two months at a stretch, and ticket sales reached 710,000.
民國五十二年，電影「梁山伯與祝英台」在台首演，風靡一時，連映兩個月，觀眾達七十一萬人次。