Goodbye, Dragon Inn

Name: Goodbye, Dragon Inn
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Released: September 17, 2004
Duration: 82 min
Rating: 83
Cast: Chao-jung Chen, Chun Shih, Kang-sheng Lee, Kiyonobu Mitamura, Kuei-Mei Yang

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Wellspring Media | Release Date: September 17, 2004 | Not Rated

Starring: Chao-jung Chen, Chun Shih, Kang-sheng Lee, Kiyonobu Mitamura, Kuei-Mei Yang, Quail Youth-Leigh, Shiang-chyi Chen, Tien Miao, Yi Cheng Lee

Summary: On the last night before the old movie theater is shut down, a Japanese youth, despite the hard rain, comes running into the theater. The theater seems empty, void of life; yet there are some people, and some may not be people... [Wellspring Media]

Director: Ming-liang Tsai

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 82 min

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Richard James Havis

An elegy for the days when Taiwan was a major East Asian film production center. Read full review

Dana Stevens

Has a quiet, cumulative magic, whose source is hard to identify. Its simple, meticulously composed frames are full of mystery and feeling; it's an action movie that stands perfectly still. Read full review

Jonathan Rosenbaum

For all its minimalism, Tsai Ming-liang's 81-minute masterpiece manages to be many things at once. Read full review

Stephanie Zacharek

Tsai Ming-Liang always makes you feel that there's a world of life beyond his movies -- a world populated by ghosts that are as real as we are. Read full review

V.A. Musetto

A loving tribute to cinema by Tsai Ming-liang, one of Taiwan's most accomplished and popular directors. Read full review

G. Allen Johnson

An idiosyncratic, oddball movie that is funny and moody. Read full review

Stanley Kauffmann

Tsai's film is not free of longueurs, but like much modern work in almost every field, these stretches are deliberate assaults on conventional expectation. Read full review

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mosesl.

Oct 10, 2005

One of the best of 2004, a tribute to the end of cinema and movie going before film became digital, and images on the screen and sounds behind the projector are essences of another time.