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."
Director:
Ming-liang Tsai
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| Credited cast: | |||
| Kang-sheng Lee | ... | Hsiao-Kang | |
| Shiang-chyi Chen | ... | Ticket Woman | |
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Kiyonobu Mitamura | ... | Japanese tourist |
| Tien Miao | ... | Himself | |
| Chun Shih | ... | Himself | |
| Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Chao-jung Chen | |||
| Yi Cheng Lee | |||
| Kuei-Mei Yang | ... | Peanut Eating Woman | |
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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. Written by Sujit R. Varma
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Country:
TaiwanRelease Date:
12 December 2003 (Taiwan) See more »Also Known As:
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Box Office
Opening Weekend USA:
$5,322, 19 September 2004, Limited ReleaseGross USA:
$34,720, 3 April 2005Company Credits
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[pause]
The man: This theater is haunted.
[pause]
The man: Ghosts.
[walks away]
Japanese tourist: [calling out to departing man] I'm Japanese.
The man: Good bye.
Japanese tourist: Good bye.
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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. See more »Quotes
The man: Do you know this theater is haunted?[pause]
The man: This theater is haunted.
[pause]
The man: Ghosts.
[walks away]
Japanese tourist: [calling out to departing man] I'm Japanese.
The man: Good bye.
Japanese tourist: Good bye.
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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.