Goodbye South, Goodbye Movie Review 1996

Restless camera follows equally restless losers through Taiwan's sprawling suburbs. Kao (Kao) and his sidekick Flathead (Giong) are minor gangsters running gambling dens and various scams. A kickback scheme involving corrupt bureaucrats and cops goes awry, Flathead gets beaten, and retaliation is in order. Thin characters tend not to hold a viewer's interest. Taiwanese with subtitles.

Distribution

Wellspring Media, A Division of Genius Products, Inc., 2230 Broadway, Santa Monica, CA 90904, Phone: (310)453-1222, Fax: (310)453-0074, URL: http://www.wellspring.com

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 116 minutes.
Originally from Japanese, Taiwanese.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Rogue Cops, Disorganized Crime

Screenplay

Tien-wen Chu

Cast

Jack Kao, Lim Giong, Kuei-ying Hsu, Annie Shizuka Inoh

Cinematography

Mark Lee Ping-Bin, Hwai-en Chen

Director

Hou Hsiao-Hsien

Music

Lim Giong