Good Bye, Dragon Inn
2003 · Movie · 82 min. · Taiwan
Set almost entirely in a crumbling movie theater on its final night, acclaimed filmmaker Tsai Ming-Liang ("What Time Is It There?") crafts an elegant and tender valentine to the pleasures of moviegoing and the death of a cinematic age. Run by a lonely female ticket clerk (Chen Shiang-Chyi) and a young projectionist (Lee Kang-Sheng), the theater shows King Hu's 1967 martial arts epic "Dragon Inn" before darkening its screen forever. A sparse audience gathers--some attending to watch a film, others attending in search of a connection. When a young Japanese tourist (Mitamura Kiyonobu) encounters someone with an uncanny resemblance to the swordsman in the film, we discover that comments about the theater's ghostly patrons may be more than rumors.
Direction Tsai Ming-liang
Cast Lee Kang-sheng · Chen Shiang-chyi · Kiyonobu Mitamura · Yang Kuei-mei · Jerry Chan · Miao Tian · Chun Shih · Lee Yi-Cheng
Screenplay Tsai Ming-liang · Sung Hsi
Cinematography Liao Pen-jung
Original title Bu san (Good Bye, Dragon Inn)
Also known as GoodBye, Dragon Inn
6.7
903 votes (FilmAffinity)
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