Shonenko, a film directed and produced by Liang-Yin Kuo, successfully demonstrates the epitome of documentary at a time when the production of documentary in Taiwan has tended to cater to popular trend and consumer taste.

In 2018, the 2nd East Asia Film Festival Ireland chose Mark Ping-Bing Lee, a great Taiwanese cinematographer, as the director in focus. The festival offered screenings of four films: In the Mood for Love (2000, opening film), Springtime in a Small Town (2002), Three Times (2005), Seventy-seven Days (2017), plus a documentary Let the Wind Carry Me (2010).

As one of few Taiwanese filmmakers who studied abroad several decades ago, Pai Ching-jui studied in Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma in 1961 and Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia di Roma in 1962.