The crew anxiously waited for a whole month, but the director never said when they would start shooting. Then one day, Chang was watching Chiou cook as she chatted with the actress playing the older sister, and the actor playing Ah-Chung shouted from upstairs, demanding to know who had moved things around in his room. At last Chang said that they would start shooting the next day.
工作人員在這一個月都很焦慮，因為導演從來不說什麼時候正式開拍，直到有一天，張作驥看到邱秀敏在煮飯時，演姐姐的演員會在旁邊和她聊天；演阿忠的演員則在樓上大叫，誰亂動他房間的東西，他終於宣佈隔天開拍。