Goodbye South, Goodbye is a 1996 crime drama film directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien. The film had its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival on 12 May 1996.
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Traditional | 南國再見,南國 |
Simplified | 南国再见,南国 |
Mandarin | Nánguó zàijiàn, nánguó |
Literally | Goodbye South, Goodbye |
Directed by | Hou Hsiao-hsien |
Screenplay by | Chu T’ien-wen |
Story by | Jack Kao King Jieh-Wen |
Produced by | Katsuhiro Mizuno Shozo Ichiyama King Jieh-wen Huang Chong Ben Hsieh |
Starring | Jack Kao Lim Giong Annie Shizuka Inoh Hsi Hsiang Hsu Kuei-Ying |
Cinematography | Mark Lee Ping Bin Chen Hwai-en |
Edited by | Liao Ching-Song |
Music by | Lim Giong Summer Lei L.T.K. |
Production companies | 3H Films Team Okuyama |
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Running time | 116 minutes |
Countries | Taiwan Japan |
Languages | Mandarin Hokkien |
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 girlfriend, 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.
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The film's soundtrack was released in Taiwan by Magic Stone in 1996,[1] as well as in Japan by Soundtrack Listeners Communications on March 21, 1997.[2]
Goodbye South, Goodbye was entered into the 1996 Cannes Film Festival,[3] but lost to Secrets & Lies.
The film was chosen along with The Bridges of Madison County and Carlito's Way as the best film of the 1990s by Cahiers du cinéma.[4] Director Luca Guadagnino also listed it as one of his 10 favorite films in the 2012 Sight & Sound poll.[5]
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