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 |
| Editing by | Ching-Song Liao |
| Release date(s) | May, 1996 |
| Running time | 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.
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[edit] Plot
Gao (Jack Kao) is riding the train to Pinghsi to set up a 10 day gambling den with his friend Hsi (Hsi Hsiang). He taking his acolyte - Flatty (Lim Giong), and Pletzel (Annie Shizuka Inoh), Flatty's girl friend, who works part time in a night club. Gao's girl friend Ying (Hsu Kuei-Ying), who works in the same night club as Pletzel, doesn't like the people around Gao, finding them dangerous. But Gao has already made a deal with Hsi to invest in a nightclub in Shanghai. Ying doesn't want him to go. She wants him to stay in Taiwan to open a restaurant. A succession of get-rich-quick schemes leads them only to the brink of disaster. In the course of the film the unsavory alliance between the underworld and the political elite emerges.
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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
[edit] References
- ^ "Festival de Cannes: Goodbye South, Goodbye". festival-cannes.com. http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/4687/year/1996.html. Retrieved 2009-09-18.
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