Goodbye, Dragon Inn
2003 · TMDB 6.8 · 不散
Directed by Tsai Ming-liang
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.
Why it matters
Tsai Ming-liang's elegiac portrait of a Taipei cinema on its last night, as a handful of patrons and staff drift through the decaying building, haunted by memories of the films that once played there.
- Runtime
- 82 min
- Released
- 2003-12-12
- Studio
- Homegreen Films
- Country
- Taiwan
- Language
- Mandarin
- TMDB score
- 6.8
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