Goodbye, Dragon Inn Movie Review 2003

Long on atmosphere and short on plot, this slow-moving drama is centered around a decaying movie palace in Taiwan that appears to have become a gay cruising spot. A Japanese tourist wanders in to get in out of the rain (or maybe for other reasons), the crippled ticket girl decides to finally act on her crush on the film projectionist, and two elderly patrons weep as they watch the feature, King Hu's 1966 epic, "Dragon Inn." Melancholy rules. Chinese 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 81 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

China, Handicapped, Comedy--Black

Cinematography

Liao Pen-yung

Other

Tang Hsiang-chu, Chen Sheng-chang, Lu Li-chin, Sun Huei-mei