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2004
1 h 22 m

2004
1 h 22 m

Goodbye, Dragon Inn

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]

Directed By: Ming-liang Tsai

Written By: Sung Hsi, Ming-liang Tsai

2004
1 h 22 m

2004
1 h 22 m

Goodbye, Dragon Inn

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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]

Directed By: Ming-liang Tsai

Written By: Sung Hsi, Ming-liang Tsai

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Top Cast

Kang-sheng Lee

Hsiao-Kang

Shiang-chyi Chen

Ticket Woman

Kiyonobu Mitamura

Japanese tourist

Chun Shih

Self

Tien Miao

Self

Chao-jung Chen

Yi Cheng Lee

Kuei-Mei Yang

Peanut Eating Woman

Quail Youth-Leigh

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Christian Science Monitor

This is a funny, sad, stunningly smart movie about the end of movies, made in Tsai's inimitable, unblinking style. No movie lover should miss it.

By David Sterritt FULL REVIEW

A movie of elegant understatement and considerable formal intelligence.

By J. Hoberman FULL REVIEW

Chicago Tribune

A weird, funny, melancholy tribute to movies and movie-going, an opus for film geeks that rang my personal bell. A bizarre minimalist epic that will either transport or infuriate, it's defiantly, exquisitely eccentric.

By Michael Wilmington FULL REVIEW

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.

By Stephanie Zacharek FULL REVIEW

San Francisco Chronicle

An idiosyncratic, oddball movie that is funny and moody.

By G. Allen Johnson FULL REVIEW

The New Republic

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.

By Stanley Kauffmann FULL REVIEW

This feels like short film material stretched exasperatingly thin but nonetheless casts a certain sad spell, graced by moments of droll observational humor.

By David Rooney FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Homegreen Films

Release Date Sep 17, 2004

Duration 1 h 22 m

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Awards

Golden Horse Film Festival

• 2 Wins & 6 Nominations

Nantes Three Continents Festival

• 2 Wins & 3 Nominations

Chlotrudis Awards

• 3 Nominations

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