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Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Chinese: 不散) is a 2003 Taiwanese comedy-drama slow cinema film written and directed by Tsai Ming-liang about a movie theater about to close down and its final screening of the 1967 wuxia film Dragon Inn.
Dec 12, 2003 · A Japanese tourist and a ticket woman are the only audience in a decaying cinema that shows a martial arts classic. The film explores themes of loneliness, nostalgia and cultural identity in a slow and atmospheric style.
Feb 26, 2021 · Goodbye Dragon In is that and much more, a poem for those who live for the movie experience, for their bodies and their distance between others, for the silence, for the gaze, for each minute the audience sees themselves in imagery presented to them and for the moment we comeback home.
A patient, almost wordless lament for the last day in the life of a Tapei movie house and homage to King Hu. The sparse audience comes and goes. The box-office girl has a crush on the projectionist (Tsai regular Lee Kang-Shang), but he has already taken leave of a theater haunted by memories.
Deliberately paced yet absorbing, Goodbye, Dragon Inn offers an affectionate -- and refreshingly unique -- look at a fading theater that should strike a chord with cineastes. Read Critics Reviews
Sep 17, 2004 · Overview. On a dark and rainy night, a historic and regal Taipei cinema sees its final film: 1967 martial arts feature "Dragon Inn". As the film plays, the lives of the theater's various employees and patrons intersect, and two ghostly actors arrive to mourn the passing of an era.
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."
