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Good Bye, Dragon Inn marks a milestone in Tsai Ming-liang’s new frontier of filmmaking: it is both a devoted homage to director King Hu (who passed away in 1997) and a melancholic yet humorous look at the sometimes forsaken state of cinema – and cinemas – today. Tsai begins with Hu’s 1966 masterpiece, Dragon Inn, projecting it as a backdrop for his own story and borrowing much of its dialogue: the film’s words resound, distorted, inside a large theatre in Taipei where it is screened in front of a gradually thinning audience. We seldom see the images from Hu’s action movie, but its sounds fall from the screen – a sort of cinephile’s rap – as a disjointed commentary on the “action” going on in the near-empty theatre.

It rains and a Japanese tourist takes refuge from the weather inside a once-popular cinema. The usual activities that characterize a Chinese movie theatre still go on – people in the audience noisily crack watermelon seeds and move around – but the atmosphere is eerie. Male figures slowly emerge from the dark, a gaunt army of pallid ghosts testifying to what this cinema has become: a meeting place for gay encounters.

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Distribution	Wellspring - Region 0 - NTSC
Runtime	1:21:39
Video	1.70:1 Original Aspect Ratio Average Bitrate: 5.12 mb/s NTSC 720x480 29.97 f/s
	NOTE: The Vertical axis represents the bits transferred per second. The Horizontal is the time in minutes.
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Audio	Mandarin (Dolby Digital 2.0 Dolby), Mandarin (Dolby Digital 5.1)
Subtitles	English, None
Features	Release Information: Studio: Wellspring Aspect Ratio: Original aspect Ratio 1.70:1 Edition Details: * Short Tsai Featurette - 'The Skywalk is Gone' aka 'Tianqiao bu jianle' (2002) - approx 22:00 (widescreen - non- anamorphic) * Tsai Filmography * Trailers for "What Time is it There", Goodbye, Dragon Inn" and "The River" DVD Release Date: February 15th, 2005 Keep Case Chapters: 18


Memoirs from the Beijing Film Academy by Zhen Ni, Chris Berry, Ni Zhen	Zhang Yimou: Interviews (Conversations With Filmmakers) by Frances Gateward	Chinese Films in Focus: 25 New Takes by Chris Berry	Wong Kar-Wai: Auteur of Time (Bfi World Directors) by Stephen Teo	China into Film: Frames of Reference in Contemporary Chinese Cinema (Envisioning Asia) by Jerome Silbergeld	New Chinese Cinemas by Nick Browne	Once Upon a Time in China : A Guide to Hong Kong, Taiwanese, and Mainland Chinese Cinema by Jeff Yang	Tsai Ming-Liang by Tsai Ming-Liang

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Distribution	Wellspring - Region 0 - NTSC