Bu san
An old Taipei cinema is set to close. Its final denizens, a small and lonely group of strangers, settle into disparate corners and mental spaces, as King Hu’s Dragon Inn (1967) plays on screen for the last time. Tsai Ming-liang’s meditative feature masterfully demonstrates that such a place, haunted by stories and memories, is far greater than the sum of its parts.
35mm, color, in Mandarin and Min Nan with English subtitles, 82 min. Production: Homegreen Films. Producer: Hung-Chih Liang, Vincent Wang. Director: Tsai Ming-liang. Screenwriter: Tsai Ming-liang. Cinematographer: Pen-Jung Liao. Editor: Sheng-Chang Chen. Cast: Kang-sheng Lee, Shiang-chyi Chen, Kiyonobu Mitamura.
