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

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Release Date: Oct 1, 1996 Wide

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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 prot�g�, 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

Unrated, 1 hr. 56 min.

Drama, Art House & International, Mystery & Suspense

Directed By: Hsiao-hsien Hou

Written By: Tien-Wen Chu

In Theaters: Oct 1, 1996 Wide

On DVD: Feb 19, 2002

Wellspring Media Inc.

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Cast

Jack Kao
Kao
Kuei-Ying Hsu
Ying
Giong Lim
Flathead
Annie Shizuka Inoh
Pretzel

Critic Reviews for Nanguo Zaijan, Nanguo (Goodbye South, Goodbye)

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

May 3, 2005 Full Review Source: Lessons of Darkness

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Nick Schager

Lessons of Darkness

Essential.

September 27, 2002 Comment

Jeffrey M. Anderson

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

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Jeremy Heilman

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

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Dennis Schwartz

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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

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