The title "Twenty Two" means only 22 Chinese comfort women still living back in 2015. When this film got re-cut and finally received mainland China release in 2017, only 8 of those 22 still remain.
The film was first edited to a 112-minute version by Xiang Yang and shown at several film festivals. Then the crew invited the famous editor Ching-Song Liao to do a new version, which was the 99-minute cut, this version became the final version to be shown theatrically in mainland China.