Goodbye, Dragon Inn
Dir: Tsai Ming-liangCast: Kang-sheng Lee, Shiang-chyi Chen, Kiyonobu Mitamura
82mins 2003 Taiwan Certificate: PG Mandarin | Min Nan | Japanese
Subtitled Goodbye, Dragon Inn
Presented by Cinelogue
A celebration of the cinema as a place of worship, reflection and silent kinship, Goodbye, Dragon Inn is director Tsai Ming-liang’s love letter to the movies.
At an old Taipei cinema about to close its doors for good, we are treated to the stories of the few people left sitting in a screening of King Hu’s Dragon Inn; from the usher with a steamed bun and the projectionist who it’s meant for, to the actor in the audience and the lonely tourist just behind him.
Here’s proof that even seeing a film becomes a touching story of wandering souls, bound together fleetingly by the power of cinema.
'A beautiful love poem to the movies' - Ed Gonzalez, Slant Magazine