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Goodbye, Dragon Inn

Original title: Bu san
  • 20032003
  • 1h 22min
IMDb RATING
7.1/10
4.6K
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Bu san (2003)
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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."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."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."

IMDb RATING
7.1/10
4.6K
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  • Director
    • Ming-liang Tsai
  • Writers
    • Sung Hsi(additional narrative)
    • Ming-liang Tsai
  • Stars
    • Kang-sheng Lee
    • Shiang-chyi Chen
    • Kiyonobu Mitamura
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  • Director
    • Ming-liang Tsai
  • Writers
    • Sung Hsi(additional narrative)
    • Ming-liang Tsai
  • Stars
    • Kang-sheng Lee
    • Shiang-chyi Chen
    • Kiyonobu Mitamura
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 36User reviews
    • 84Critic reviews
    • 82Metascore
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    • Awards
      • 13 wins & 11 nominations

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    Kang-sheng Lee
    Kang-sheng Lee
    • Hsiao-Kangas Hsiao-Kang
    Shiang-chyi Chen
    Shiang-chyi Chen
    • Ticket Womanas Ticket Woman
    Kiyonobu Mitamura
    • Japanese touristas Japanese tourist
    Tien Miao
    Tien Miao
    • Selfas Self
    Chun Shih
    Chun Shih
    • Selfas Self
    Chao-jung Chen
    Chao-jung Chen
    Yi Cheng Lee
    Yi Cheng Lee
    Kuei-Mei Yang
    Kuei-Mei Yang
    • Peanut Eating Womanas Peanut Eating Woman
    • Director
      • Ming-liang Tsai
    • Writers
      • Sung Hsi(additional narrative)
      • Ming-liang Tsai
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    Storyline

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    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." Even with the rain bucketing down outside, it doesn't pull much of an audience -- and some of those who have turned up are less interested in the movie than in the possibility of meeting a stranger in the dark. —Sujit R. Varma
    taipei taiwanexistential lonelinesstouristjapanesejapanese tourist33 more
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    • Genres
      • Drama
      • Comedy
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    • Trivia
      The movie's own director, Tsai Ming-liang, voted for it as one of the 10 Greatest Films of All Time in the 2012 Sight & Sound Directors' Poll.
    • 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.

    • Connections
      Features Dragon Inn (1967)
    • Soundtracks
      Chong Feng
      by Ge Lan

    User reviews36

    Review
    Top review
    7/10
    Great, but VERY slow
    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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    • haisan
    • May 31, 2005

    Details

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    • Release date
      • December 12, 2003 (Taiwan)
    • Country of origin
      • Taiwan
    • Languages
      • Mandarin
      • Min Nan
      • Japanese
    • Also known as
      • Good Bye, Dragon Inn
    • Production company
      • Homegreen Films
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    Box office

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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $35,120
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $5,322
      • Sep 19, 2004
    • Gross worldwide
      • $1,029,643
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    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      • 1h 22min
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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