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Goodbye, Dragon Inn

Original title: Bu san
  • 20032003
  • 1h 22m
IMDb RATING
7.1/10
5.1K
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POPULARITY
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1,619
Goodbye, Dragon Inn (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
5.1K
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
24,226
1,619
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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
    Top credits
    • 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
    • 37User reviews
    • 84Critic reviews
    • 82Metascore
    • Awards
      • 14 wins & 11 nominations

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    Shiang-chyi Chen in Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003)
    Shiang-chyi Chen in Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003)
    Shiang-chyi Chen in Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003)
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    Top cast

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

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    Did you know

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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 reviews37

    Review
    Top review
    A Quiet, Loving Tribute to Going to the Movies
    "Good Bye, Dragon Inn (Bu san)" is something of a Taiwanese "Cinema Paradiso" and "Last Picture Show" in its love of old movie theaters and evoking the unfulfilled longings we project onto movies and their showcases.

    We take refuge (and I have no idea how we were supposed to know that one of the characters we are following in is a Japanese tourist, per the IMDb plot description) during a rain storm on the last night at a huge theater, and the camera slowly leads us through every inch of the place.

    The vast scale of the place is brought home to us (and it will have less impact when not seen on a big screen) as virtually every inch is navigated painfully by a lame employee, clumping (as we only hear ambient sounds) up and down all those stairs, from the red velveteen seats around every nook and cranny and down long hallways and seedy passageways.

    I don't know if only a Western viewer thinks at first one character is a pedophile or another a transvestite, as the theater certainly looks like the old ones that were in Times Square, or if writer/director Ming-liang Tsai is toying with all of us, as he brings other assignation attempts closer (in what must be the longest time any men have ever spent leaning against a urinal), but they are as unreal as the movie-within-a-movie, the swordplay flick "Dragon Inn" which is just a bit more stilted and corny than the current "Warriors of Heaven and Earth (Tian di ying xiong)."

    There is one especially lovely moment, within beautiful cinematography throughout, of reaction to the flickering screen when the employee pauses in her rounds to look up at the huge image of the warrior princess and shares our view of the screen with her. Amusingly, the only fulfilled feelings are hunger, as various characters noisily eat a wide variety of refreshments.

    The projectionist is as much an unseen power as Herr Drosselmeier in "The Nutcracker," as we don't even see him until the theater is almost ready to close. He is as oblivious to interacting with real people as every other member of the sparse audience.

    The major events in the film are when two characters even acknowledge each other's existence, let alone speak the only three lines or so of spoken dialogue in the entire film, reiterating what we've seen visually -- "No one goes to the movies anymore." The closing nostalgic pop song is jarringly intrusive at first to this quiet film, but the lyrics are very appropriate.
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    • Sep 24, 2004

    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
      1 hour 22 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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