The Rooftop (film)

The Rooftop (Chinese: 天台; pinyin: tiān tái; lit. 'Rooftop') is a 2013 Taiwanese musical film. It is the second feature film directed by Taiwanese singer/actor Jay Chou. Similar to his first feature film, Secret, Jay played multiple roles in the production of the film, as the main lead, director, script-writer and music composer.

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The Rooftop
Film poster for Mainland China market
Directed by	Jay Chou
Written by	Jay Chou
Produced by	Huang Zhiming Will Liu
Starring	Jay Chou Eric Tsang Xu Fan Li Xin'ai Alan Ko Wang Xueqi
Cinematography	Mark Lee Ping Bin
Music by	Jay Chou Huang Yuxun
Production companies	Chuang Yi Motion Pictures Evergrande Entertainment Edko Films Beijing Talent International Media
Distributed by	Buena Vista Distribution Edko Films
Release dates	11 July 2013 (2013-07-11) (Taiwan and China) 19 July 2013 (2013-07-19) (North America) 1 August 2013 (2013-08-01) (Hong Kong)
Running time	120 minutes
Country	Taiwan
Language	Mandarin
Box office	TWD$250,000,000

The Rooftop is one of the many scripts that Chou has written since the success of Secret in 2007. Most of the scripts are sequels to Secret.[1] However, Chou and his long-time friend Will Liu decided to work on The Rooftop as a challenge to produce the first Chinese mainstream musical-come-martial arts film. They claimed that The Rooftop is a film that is difficult to be categorized, for it combined the elements of musical extravaganza and actions.

Chou has made good use of his experience from filming The Green Hornet in Hollywood, Initial D in Hong Kong and directing over 60 of his own music videos, to conceptualize The Rooftop with music as its roots,[2] combined with actions, to create a genre never seen before in Asia.