Papa, Can You Hear Me Sing (Chinese: 搭錯車) is a 1983 Taiwanese musical film directed by Yu Kanping (虞戡平) starring Sun Yueh and Linda Liu (劉瑞琪).

[2] The theme song "Any Empty Wine Bottles for Sale"[3] (Chinese: 酒矸倘賣無) performed by Su Rui is also famous.

The next evening, he decides to buy a can of powdered condensed milk for Mei at the expense of the saki.

The next evening he brings home a bottle of saki but his companion had left him and Mei with a neighbor.

Her manager reinvents Mei's image by masking her native and Taiwanese Hokkien linguistic origins, portraying her as the daughter of a rich and respectable family that has since emigrated to the United States, with Mei deciding to stay behind to pursue her singing career.

One evening, Mei attempts to visit her father without knowing that her ghetto was forcibly demolished by city authorities and where they relocated to.

He is brought to the hospital dying and his widowed neighbour, with whom he has grown intimate, rushes to the concert to get Mei's attention.