Alula FF Presents: Dragon Inn/Goodbye, Dragon Inn

Alula Film Festival presents a double feature of King Hu's DRAGON INN and Tsai Ming Liang's GOODBYE, DRAGON INN!

5:00 PM

DRAGON INN - 4K Restoration! - 111 Minutes

China, year 1457. The Minister of Defense is executed, and his children are sentenced to exile by order of the tyrannical Tsao. Fearful of future revenge from the young people, Tsao sends cruel soldiers to murder them, but a brave group of swordsmen can change the course of the battle at the Dragon Inn.

7:15 PM

GOODBYE, DRAGON INN - 82 mins

In Taipei, a movie theater is closing, but not before one final film is shown -- "Dragon Inn," a 1967 actioner and the source of nostalgia for the moviegoers and employees in the old, decrepit and possibly haunted building. The workers include eccentric projectionist Hsiao-Kang (Lee Kang-sheng) and a crippled cashier (Shiang-chyi Chen). The patrons include a Japanese tourist (Kiyonobu Mitamura) and two ghostly actors from the original film who have come to mourn the passing of an era.

Alula Film Festival celebrates and champions Chinese-language indie, arthouse, and auteur cinema. Their programming includes a bi-annual film festival, themed retrospectives, and monthly screenings at the Culver Theater.

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