Production
The film tells a "simple but very beautiful" love story, which Chou denies was adapted from his personal experiences. When the film debuted, Chou admitted that he drew from childhood experience for the plot, although his personal story was not as romantic.
Filming for the movie began in January 2007 and was completed in March. Despite previous experience in filming music videos, Chou admits that movies are much more challenging due to storyline complexity and time constraints.
Because Chou was worried that people might question if he actually directed the film himself, he even refused veteran director Andrew Lau Wai Keung to visit him during shooting. However, Chou says that he did send a pilot film to Lau afterwards.
Chou has announced his plans to direct a sequel to the film and plans to invite Andy Lau to star in it.
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