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Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Chinese: 不散) is a 2003 Taiwanese comedy-drama slow cinema film written and directed by Tsai Ming-liang about a movie theater about to close down and its final screening of the 1967 wuxia film Dragon Inn.
Dec 12, 2003 · Goodbye, Dragon Inn: Directed by Tsai Ming-liang. With Kang-sheng Lee, Shiang-chyi Chen, Kiyonobu Mitamura, Chun Shih. On a dark, wet night a historic and regal Chinese cinema sees its final film.
Deliberately paced yet absorbing, Goodbye, Dragon Inn offers an affectionate -- and refreshingly unique -- look at a fading theater that should strike a chord with cineastes. Read Critics...
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Dec 16, 2020 · A sparse audience attends the last show in a cavernous movie house. Now all the more poignant for being streamed, Tsai Ming-liang’s 2003 “Goodbye, Dragon Inn,” newly restored, is a love ...
Goodbye, Dragon Inn. In Tsai Ming-liang’s minimalist film, the Fu-Ho Grand, a movie palace in Taipei, is closing its doors. Its valedictory screening, King Hu’s 1967 wuxia epic “Dragon Inn”, plays to a motley smattering of spectators, including two stars of Hu’s original opus, Miao Tien and Shih Chun, who watch their younger selves ...
Sep 17, 2004 · Overview. On a dark and rainy night, a historic and regal Taipei cinema sees its final film: 1967 martial arts feature "Dragon Inn". As the film plays, the lives of the theater's various employees and patrons intersect, and two ghostly actors arrive to mourn the passing of an era.
On a dark, wet night in Taipei City, a cavernous old picture palace is about to close its doors forever. A meager audience, the remaining few staff, and perhaps even a ghost or two, watch King Hu’s wuxia classic Dragon Inn—each haunted by memories and desires evoked by cinema itself.
Feb 26, 2021 · Centering on a crumbling Taipei movie palace projecting King Hu’s classic wuxia feature Dragon Inn (1966) to a meager and mostly preoccupied audience, Goodbye, Dragon Inn employs its once grandiose, barren setting to convey the dearth of human emotion in the contemporary world.
A Japanese tourist takes refuge from a rainstorm inside a once-popular movie theater, a decrepit old barn of a cinema that is screening a martial arts classic, King Hu's 1966 "Dragon Inn."
Goodbye, Dragon Inn. DRAMA. Like the Royal Theater in 'The Last Picture Show' and the title movie house in 'Cinema Paradiso', the Fu-Ho is shutting down for good. The Fu-Ho’s valedictory screening is King Hu’s 1967 wuxia epic 'Dragon Inn', playing to a motley smattering of spectators.
