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Goodbye, Dragon Inn Wikipedia

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movie_name = Goodbye, Dragon Inn |
image = Image:GDI Poster Medium1.jpg|200px|A film poster for Goodbye, Dragon Inn.|
writer = Tsai Ming-liang|
starring = Lee Kang-sheng<br />Chen Shiang-chyi<br>Kiyonobu Mitamura<br>|
director = Tsai Ming-liang |
producer = Hung-Chih Liang<br>Vincent Wang|
distributor = Wellspring Media <small>(U.S)</small> |
music = |
release_date = September 17 2004 (U.S)|
runtime = 82:84 (Argentina)|
movie_language = Mandarin (linguistics)|Mandarin<br>Taiwanese (linguistics)|Taiwanese|
budget = |
music = |
awards = |
imdb_id = 0377556|

Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Bu San) is a minimalism|minimalist 2003 Taiwanese film directed by Tsai Ming-liang about the last feature at an historic Taipei cinema.

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Goodbye, Dragon Inn is set in the approximately ninety minutes of the last feature at an old and grand Taipei cinema that is closing down, showing King Hu's 1967 sword-fighting classic Dragon Inn. Only a few people are present in the cinema, and a variety of subplots are developed around them. Throughout the film, the ticket woman tries to find the projectionist, searching for him in order to present him with a steamed bun, yet they never meet. A Japanese man wanders around the cinema in search of a homosexual encounter. Another man tells him that the cinema is haunted, and there seems to be a certain amount of truth in that. Two old men, both actors who appeared in the original Dragon Inn, watch the film with tears in their eyes.

The film is shot with almost no camera movement, most shots lasting well over thirty seconds. There are only about a dozen of lines of dialogue, with a clear focus on the visual. In some cases, the director seems to be mocking the audience, for example by presenting them a shot of an empty cinema for minutes without any change.

Last Modified:   2005-11-07