- Goodbye South, Goodbye
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Goodbye South, Goodbye 
DVD coverDirected by Hou Hsiao-Hsien Produced by Teng-Kuei Yang Written by Chu Tien-wen
Jack Kao
Jieh-Wen KingStarring Jack Kao
Lim Giong
Annie Shizuka Inoh
Hsi Hsiang
Hsu Kuei-YingMusic by Lim Giong
Summer Lei
L.T.K.Cinematography Mark Lee Ping-Bin
Huai-en ChenEditing by Ching-Song Liao Release date(s) May, 1996 Running time 124 minutes Country Taiwan Language Mandarin Goodbye South, Goodbye (simplified Chinese: 南国再见,南国; traditional Chinese: 南國再見,南國; pinyin: Nánguó Zaìjiàn, Nánguó) is a 1996 film directed by Hou Hsiao-Hsien.
Contents
Plot
Gao (Jack Kao) is riding the train to Pinghsi to set up a 10 day gambling den with his friend Hsi (Hsi Hsiang). He taking his acolyte - Flatty (Lim Giong), and Pletzel (Annie Shizuka Inoh), Flatty's girl friend, who works part time in a night club. Gao's girl friend Ying (Hsu Kuei-Ying), who works in the same night club as Pletzel, doesn't like the people around Gao, finding them dangerous. But Gao has already made a deal with Hsi to invest in a nightclub in Shanghai. Ying doesn't want him to go. She wants him to stay in Taiwan to open a restaurant. A succession of get-rich-quick schemes leads them only to the brink of disaster. In the course of the film the unsavory alliance between the underworld and the political elite emerges.
Reception
Goodbye South, Goodbye was entered into the 1996 Cannes Film Festival,[1] but lost to Secrets & Lies. It was chosen along with The Bridges of Madison County and Carlito's Way as the best film of the 1990s by Cahiers du cinéma.
Cast
- Jack Kao as Gao
- Lim Giong as Flatty
- Annie Shizuka Inoh as Pretzel
- Hsi Hsiang as Hsi
- Hsu Kuei-Ying as Ying
- Lei Ming as Gao's father
- Lien Pi-tung
- Kao Ming
- Vicky Wei
References
- ^ "Festival de Cannes: Goodbye South, Goodbye". festival-cannes.com. http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/4687/year/1996.html. Retrieved 2009-09-18.
External links
Films directed by Hou Hsiao-Hsien 1980s Cute Girls (1980) · Cheerful Wind (1981) · The Green, Green Grass of Home (1982) · The Sandwich Man (1983) · The Boys From Fengkuei (1983) · A Summer at Grandpa's (1984) · A Time to Live, A Time to Die (1985) · Dust in the Wind (1986) · Daughter of the Nile (1987) · A City of Sadness (1989)1990s The Puppetmaster (1993) · Good Men, Good Women (1995) · Goodbye South, Goodbye (1996) · Flowers of Shanghai (1998)2000s Millennium Mambo (2001) · Café Lumière (2003) · Three Times (2005) · The Flight of the Red Balloon (2007)Shorts The Electric Princess House (2007)
Cinema of TaiwanActors • Directors • Films A–Z • Chronology of films • Cinematographers • Producers • Screenwriters • Submissions to the Academy AwardCategories:- Taiwanese films
- Mandarin-language films
- 1996 films
- Films directed by Hou Hsiao-Hsien
- 1990s crime films
- 1990s drama films
- Taiwanese film stubs
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