（Video）The 1980s was the era when the Taiwan New Wave movement was born, and it was also when Taiwanese movies became popular. At the time, Hong Kong’s Cinema City Company, Ltd., saw the potential in Taiwan’s movie market and decided to invest in Taiwanese movies. They sent their No. 1 talent, Raymond Wong, to work with Taiwanese director Yu Kan-Ping. They completed the entire script of a movie in a hotel in an amazingly short 48 hours. They hoped to shoot a kind of movie rarely seen in Taiwan, a musical based on urban life. After they completed the script, Raymond Wong was inspired to name the movie “Papa, Can You Hear Me Sing?”, the name of a script for another project that had been abandoned. As a result, the movie accidentally ended up having a title that had little to do with the plot.
The critical part of a musical is, of course, the music. The movie company recruited producer Lee Shou-Chuan, who was not yet 30 years old at the time, to create original music for the movie. The talented Lee Shou-Chuan composed the music for the theme song “Same Moonlight,” and the lyrics were composed by one of the most important promoters of Taiwan New Wave, Wu Nien-Jen. However, a couple of minor sections of the lyrics had not been finalized, and when the movie was about to be shot, Wu Nien-Jen could not be found. Instead, the company recruited the gifted Lo Ta-Yu to complete the lyrics. The music and lyrics were turned over to Chen Chih-Yuan, the master arranger, for him to work his magic. Thus came about this work, which involved the most outstanding creators of the time in Taiwan.
