The theater used for the film was actually on the brink of being closed, and shortly before the film was released it was indeed closed, in an strange example of life imitating art.
The first line of dialogue appears 40 minutes into the film.
The movie's own director, Tsai Ming-liang, voted for it as one of the 10 Greatest Films of All Time in the 2012 and 2022 Sight & Sound Directors' Polls.
Two cast members from the Original Dragon Inn(1967) appear as audience members in the Theatre, 'Chun Shin' who played 'Xiao Shaozi' as the person who cries when the movie ends & 'Miao Tien' who played 'Pi Shao Tung' as the grandfather who came with his grandchild.
The film has a total of 11 lines of dialogue