Goodbye, Dragon Inn
– On a dark, rainy night, an historic and regal Taipei cinema sees its final film: 1967 martial arts f..
On a dark, rainy night, an 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.
12 Dec 2003
Mandarin, Min Nan
Ming-liang Tsai
Sung Hsi (additional narrative), Ming-liang Tsai
Kang-sheng Lee, Shiang-chyi Chen, Kiyonobu Mitamura, Tien Miao
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." Even with the rain bucketing down outside, it doesn't pull much of an audience -- and some of those who have turned up are less interested in the movie than in the possibility of meeting a stranger in the dark.
13 wins & 11 nominations.
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