Taiwan's official submission for the 'Best International Feature Film' category at the 'The Oscars (2024)'. The film was not nominated.
'Junior MaoMao', the dog, is female.
The 'Wilhelm scream', during the shoot-out scene, is an iconic stock sound effect, named after 'Private Wilhelm', a character in 'La Charge sur la rivière rouge (1953)', who gets shot in the thigh with an arrow.
A ghost marriage, in Chinese tradition, stems from the belief that if a person has died single, his or her spirit will feel lonely in the afterlife. As these spirits are unable to find harmony, they would return to cause harm to living family members and their descendants. Many consider the real purpose of ghost marriages to be a form of bereavement therapy.
Gingle Wang (Lin Tzu-ching) said that by watching the two leading actors play against each other during filming, she finally realized the joy of being a 'fujoshi', or a fan of "BL" (Boys' Love), a genre of male-male homoerotic media originating in Japan that is created primarily by and for women and has a robust global fandom.