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Nanguo Zaijan, Nanguo (Goodbye South, Goodbye) (1996)

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After spending much of the decade making films about Taiwan's complex and troubled history, Hou Hsiao Hsien turns his attention to its money-obsessed present with this gangster drama. Tattooed mobster, Kao (Jack Kao), and his quick-tempered, aptly named protégé, Flathead (Lim Giong), along with their girlfriends, Ying (Hsu Kuei-ying) and Pretzel (Annie Shizuka Inoh), are desperately trying to make it big. Their master plan is open a disco in Shanghai, but that scheme seems less and less likely

Feb 19, 2002

Wellspring Media Inc.

All Critics (10) | Top Critics (2) | Fresh (5) | Rotten (0) | DVD (3)

Hou brilliantly evokes the isolation of a generation hopelessly cut off from its past.

May 3, 2005 Full Review Source: Lessons of Darkness | Comment
Lessons of Darkness

Essential.

September 27, 2002 Comment
San Francisco Examiner

What's most impressive about Goodbye South Goodbye is the way in which the film seems so completely disenchanted with the antics of its protagonists.

April 1, 2002 Full Review Source: MovieMartyr.com | Comment
MovieMartyr.com

Another slow moving but electrically penetrating film by one of the world's best directors, Hou Hsiao-hsien.

October 24, 2001 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews | Comment
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Audience Reviews for Nanguo Zaijan, Nanguo (Goodbye South, Goodbye)

Illuminated Taiwan and its urban underclass, mingling, scheming, struggling, scamming. Long, continuous takes add a beautiful rhythm to the film, one of Hou Hsiao-Hsien's best.

March 20, 2011
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Jason Hirthler

Not one of Hou's best films, but still a solid outing. This was also more stylistically varied than most of his other films, with many long tracking shots including emphasized POV shots. The story is kind of like a more bleak Millennium Mambo combined with Imamura's Pigs and Battleships (there's even a pig deal scandal

July 10, 2008

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