Goodbye, Dragon Inn

(2003)

★ 6.8 IMDb · 189 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 2003

Runtime: 82 мин

Country: Taiwan

Director: 蔡明亮

Cast: 李康生, 陳湘琪, Kiyonobu Mitamura, Мяо Тянь, 石雋, 陳昭榮, Куэй-мэй Ян

Plot

On a dark, wet night in Taipei City, a cavernous old picture palace is about to close its doors forever. A meager audience, the remaining few staff, and perhaps even a ghost or two, watch King Hu’s wuxia classic "Dragon Inn", each haunted by memories and desires evoked by cinema itself.

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.