On the one hand, the local Japanese authorities in Taiwan planned to show it to the budget subcommittee of the Imperial Diet in Tokyo to confirm that money was well spent in the island.
[1] In the same year 1907, Takamatsu toured Japan to show the film accompanied by five representatives of the Taiwanese indigenous peoples.
Together with the director, they were granted a personal audience by Emperor Meiji in his palace in Aoyama and, upon their return to Taiwan, by Governor-General Sakuma Samata.
[2] The film is lost, but it is known from reviews in local newspapers that it featured a long staged scene of Japanese military repressing a revolt by Taiwanese indigenous people.
The film was criticized for presenting a romantic, exotic, and colonial view of Taiwan, ignoring its more modern industrial products and social problems.