Marking the dawn of a new era in Taiwan cinema, The Taste of Apple, the third installment of The Sandwich Man (1983), affirms Wan Jen's inclusion in the New Taiwan Cinema filmic movement. The film attests to significant differences between Wan Jen and his Taiwan contemporaries in addition to mapping out Wan Jen's filmic concerns in his works from the 80s to the 90s. In this film Wan Jen brings Hou's nostalgic villagers from the country to the city, and shows a working class view of the city tellingly different from Edward Yang's bourgeois Taipei.