Good Bye, Dragon Inn

IMDb link: 0377556
IMDb rating: 7.1 (7,156 votes)
Genres: Comedy, Drama
Director: Kang-sheng Lee, Ming-liang Tsai
Cast: Chao-jung Chen, Shiang-chyi Chen, Kiyonobu Mitamura and others

Release date: 12 Dec 2003
Release year: 2003
Runtime: 82 minutes
Country: Taiwan
Keywords: taipei taiwan, existential loneliness, slow cinema, film reel, disillusionment, male body, female body, female protagonist, incommunicability, end of an era

Plot:

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.

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