Goodbye South, Goodbye
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Directed by | Hou Hsiao-Hsien |
Produced by | Teng-Kuei Yang |
Written by | Chu Tien-wen Jack Kao Jieh-Wen King |
Starring | Jack Kao Lim Giong Annie Shizuka Inoh Hsi Hsiang Hsu Kuei-Ying |
Music by | Lim Giong Summer Lei L.T.K. |
Cinematography | Mark Lee Ping-Bin Huai-en Chen |
Edited by | Ching-Song Liao |
Release dates
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May, 1996 |
Running time
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124 minutes |
Country | Taiwan |
Language | Mandarin |
Goodbye South, Goodbye (simplified Chinese: 南国再见,南国; traditional Chinese: 南國再見,南國; pinyin: Nánguó Zaìjiàn, Nánguó) is a 1996 film directed by Hou Hsiao-Hsien.
Contents
Plot
Gao (Jack Kao) rides the train to Pinghsi to set up a 10-day gambling den with his friend Hsi (Hsi Hsiang). He takes his acolyte Flatty (Lim Giong) and Pretzel (Annie Shizuka Inoh), Flatty's girl friend, who works part-time in a night club. Gao's girlfriend Ying (Hsu Kuei-Ying) works in the same night club as Pretzel and doesn't like the people around Gao, finding them dangerous. Gao has already made a deal with Hsi to invest in a nightclub in Shanghai, but Ying doesn't want him to go. Instead, she wants him to stay in Taiwan to open a restaurant. A succession of get-rich-quick schemes leads them to the brink of disaster. Throughout the course of the film the unsavory alliance between the underworld and the political elite emerges.
Reception
Goodbye South, Goodbye was entered into the 1996 Cannes Film Festival,[1] but lost to Secrets & Lies. It was chosen along with The Bridges of Madison County and Carlito's Way as the best film of the 1990s by Cahiers du cinéma.
Cast
- Jack Kao as Gao
- Lim Giong as Flatty
- Annie Shizuka Inoh as Pretzel
- Hsi Hsiang as Hsi
- Hsu Kuei-Ying as Ying
- Lei Ming as Gao's father
- Lien Pi-tung
- Kao Ming
- Vicky Wei
References
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External links
- Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). Goodbye South, Goodbye at IMDb
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