Batain Lai!! Minami no Shima no Mizu Monogatari won the 23rd Japan Society of Civil Engineers' Cinema Committee's Most Excellent award. The movie premiered in Japan as Pattenrai!! ~ Minami no Shima no Mizu Monogatari (パッテンライ!!　～南の島の水ものがたり～) on November 15, 2008. It was released in Taiwan with mixed Taiwanese-Mandarin dub on November 13, 2009; with some cinemas offering the original Japanese dub an

Batain Lai!! Minami no Shima no Mizu Monogatari won the 23rd Japan Society of Civil Engineers' Cinema Committee's Most Excellent award. The movie premiered in Japan as Pattenrai!! ~ Minami no Shima no Mizu Monogatari (パッテンライ!!　～南の島の水ものがたり～) on November 15, 2008. It was released in Taiwan with mixed Taiwanese-Mandarin dub on November 13, 2009; with some cinemas offering the original Japanese dub and Chinese subtitles. Special Taiwanese premieres of the movie were screened in Tainan on November 4, 2009, attended by the former president Ma Ying-jeou; and in Taipei on November 9, 2009, attended by the former president Lee Teng-hui.