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Overview

User Rating:
7.0/10   1,324 votes
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Director:
Writer:
Ming-liang Tsai (writer)
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Release Date:
21 July 2004 (France) more
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Plot:
On a dark, wet night a historic and regal Chinese cinema sees its final film. Together with a small handful of souls they bid "Goodbye, Dragon Inn." full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
10 wins & 9 nominations more
User Comments:
Great, but VERY slow more (24 total)

Cast

  (Credited cast)
Kang-sheng Lee ... Hsiao-Kang
Shiang-chyi Chen ... Ticket Woman
Kiyonobu Mitamura ... Japanese tourist
Tien Miao ... Himself
Chun Shih ... Himself
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Chao-jung Chen
Kuei-Mei Yang ... Peanut Eating Woman
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Bu jian bu san
Good Bye, Dragon Inn (International: English title)
Goodbye, Dragon Inn (USA) (DVD box title)
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Runtime:
82 min | Argentina:84 min (Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente)
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Trivia:
The first line of dialogue appears 40 minutes into the film. more
Quotes:
Shih Chun: Teacher Miao. Shih-Chun.
[pause]
Shih Chun: Teacher, you came to see the movie?
Tien Miao: I haven't seen a movie in a long time.
Shih Chun: No one goes to the movies anymore, and no one remembers us anymore.
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Movie Connections:
References Impostor (2001) more
Soundtrack:
Chong Feng more

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4 out of 7 people found the following comment useful.
Great, but VERY slow, 31 May 2005
7/10
Author: haisan from South Korea

At the risk of coming on too strong, I think the other posters here who disliked this film were idiots. True, Good-bye Dragon Inn is EXTREMELY slow. Almost nothing happens in the film. Nonetheless, it is truly excellent. A great, subtle ghost story...

It's especially good if you have ever been to any of the big, old, concrete movie theaters in Asia... Theaters that are now being totally replaced by multiplexes.

Good-bye Dragon Inn is basically a poem to the old cinema culture of Asia. I have great memories of going to those huge, decaying movie theaters... in summer to escape the heat... during the rainy season, when the sound of the rain almost drowned out the film itself. Great stuff.

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