Film poster for Goodbye, Dragon Inn

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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 the 1960s 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 Japanese man wanders around the cinema in search of a homosexual encounter. Another man tells him that the cinema is haunted, and there seems to be a certain amount of truth in that. Two old men, both actors who appeared in the original Dragon Inn, watch the film with tears in their eyes. Events and trends The 1960s was a turbulent decade of change around the world. ... A subplot is a series of connected actions within a work of narrative that function separately from the main plot. ...

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. In some cases, the director seems to be mocking the audience, for example by presenting them a shot of an empty cinema for minutes without any change.

Cast

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

External links

• Official site (http://www.wellspring.com/movies/movie.html?movie_id=47)
• Bu san (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0377556/) at the Internet Movie Database