 Of particular prominence in the soundtrack is the 1933 Taiwanese song "Bāng Chhun-hong".Lin Wenqi points out that the song's last phrase, "I was fooled, for it was just the wind", paralleled the characters Poh Huat and Seng's fruitless pursuit of material wealth.As the producers were writing the script in New York, Woo Yen Yen called her mother in Singapore to ask her about the most popular song of her time.