Goodbye, Dragon Inn

Infobox Film
name = Goodbye, Dragon Inn (不散)


caption = A film poster for "Goodbye, Dragon Inn"
writer = Tsai Ming-liang
starring = Lee Kang-sheng
Chen Shiang-chyi
Kiyonobu Mitamura
director = Tsai Ming-liang
producer = Hung-Chih Liang
Vincent Wang
distributor = Wellspring Media (USA)
music =
released = September 17, 2004 (USA)
runtime = 82 mins
country = Taiwan
language = Mandarin, Taiwanese
budget =
music =
amg_id = 1:294121
imdb_id = 0377556

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

"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 young hustler wanders around the cinema in search of a homosexual encounter. A Japanese man tells him that the cinema is haunted, and there seems to be a certain amount of truth in that. An old man who was one of the actors who appeared in the original "Dragon Inn", watches the film with tears in his eyes. Outside the theatre he encounters an older man who had been watching the film with his grandson; this man also starred in the original film.

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.

Cast

*Lee Kang-sheng as the projectionist
*Chen Shiang-chyi as the ticket woman
*Mitamura Kiyonobu as the Japanese tourist
*Chun Shih as himself
*Miao Tien as himself
*Chen Chao-jung as himself
*Yang Kuei-Mei as the peanut-eating woman

External links

*imdb title|id=0377556|title=Goodbye, Dragon Inn
* [http://www.wellspring.com/movies/movie.html?movie_id=47 Official website]