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The huge success of Chen's "Unbelievable" music video, which garnered 3.2 million views on Facebook and YouTube prompted director Ong Kuo Sin to come up with a feature film and provide a background story for it. The film was shot in 15 days starting from 14 September 2015. [3]
Papa, Can You Hear Me Sing (Chinese: 搭錯車) is a 1983 Taiwanese musical film directed by Yu Kanping (虞戡平) starring Sun Yueh and Linda Liu (劉瑞琪). [1] This film was released eight times in Taiwan and eleven times in Hong Kong and won four Golden Horse Awards. [2]
12 Lotus (Chinese: 十二莲花) is a 2008 Singaporean musical drama film written and directed by Royston Tan, starring Qi Yuwu, Liu Lingling and Mindee Ong. [3] The film was released in theatres on 14 August 2008 and was screened at the 13th Busan International Film Festival in October 2008. [4]
Hokkien pop, also known as Taiwanese Hokkien popular music, T-pop (Chinese: 臺語流行音樂), Tai-pop, Minnan Pop and Taiwanese folk (Chinese: 臺語歌), is a popular music genre sung in Hokkien, especially Taiwanese Hokkien and produced mainly in Taiwan and sometimes in Fujian in Mainland China or Hong Kong or even Singapore in Southeast Asia.
The film, set in 1970s Penang, [2] is the first Malaysian film that is entirely in Penang Hokkien. [3] The film's Chinese name, 海墘新路 (Hái-Kînn Sin-Lōo), refers to a Hokkien nickname for Victoria Street in George Town, Penang.
As the song was in Taiwanese Hokkien, the hosts repeatedly read the lyrics to help the students remember the pronunciation. [15] In the first half of the video, the protesting students fervently chanted, "Because of you, who defy the wind and rain, we can continue to be here, resolute in our presence.
Over 1,000 Hokkien-language films were made in Taiwan between 1956 and 1961. [3] The popularity of Amoy films, established in the early 1950s, then fell, and was overtaken by Taiwanese Hokkien films. By 1981, the number of Taiwanese Hokkien films made numbered 2,000. [ 2 ]
The song was composed by Namewee, in the lyrics she tells others that she is a "Malaysian Chabor" (Malaysian girl), and not Korean which is what people assumed. [5] The word 'chabor' means girl in Hokkien. [6] The song spawned many covers and parodies. [7] The music video has since reached over 30 million views on YouTube as of 2023.