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Mood:
- GloomySuspenseful
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Plot:
- GangstersCrime Gone AwryCons and ScamsCrimesCriminal HeroesNannyPoliticsGambling more...
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Genres:
- CrimeDrama
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Time/Period:
- 90s
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Place:
- AsiaChinaRestaurantTaiwan
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Praise:
- Critically Acclaimed
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Attitudes:
- SeriousRealistic
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Goodbye South, Goodbye, 1996
Mandarin, Hokkien
Taiwan
Profile of Goodbye South, Goodbye
Goodbye South, Goodbye can be described as gloomy and suspenseful. The plot revolves around crime gone awry, gangsters, and cons and scams. The main genres are drama and crime. In approach, Goodbye South, Goodbye is serious and realistic. It is set, at least in part, in a restaurant. It is located in Taiwan and China. Goodbye South, Goodbye takes place in the 1990s. The movie has received attention for being critically acclaimed.
Summary of Goodbye South, Goodbye
A Taiwanese rewrite of Martin Scorsese's MEAN STREETS, the Hou Hsiao-Hsien film GOODBYE SOUTH, GOODBYE stars Jack Kao (a veteran of several Hou films) as Gao, the head of a group of misfits involved in one get-rich-quick scheme or another. A big fish in a small pond, Gao is responsible for the welfare of a large extended family, as well as his volatile young friend, Flat Head (Taiwanese singing star and Hou film veteran, Lim Giong). Tired of his life, Gao only wants to buy a restaurant in Shanghai and marry his girlfriend, who threatens to leave him for a new life in America. He devises a plan to raise the money for the restaurant by trading subsidized pigs to the government for cash. Things seem easy enough, until the temperamental Flat Head antagonizes the wrong people, and sets them on a collision course with the dangerous big league world of powerful politics and gangsters.
Hou's follow up to his ambitious historical trilogy is a departure for the director, with its strictly contemporary setting, focus on urban life, fast pacing, and aggressive, pulsating soundtrack. Yet Hou's unique visual style remains, making this film an exciting and welcome addition to the Hou Hsiao-Hsien canon.
Details
| Language: | Mandarin, Hokkien |
| Country: | Taiwan |
| Release date: | October 1996 |
| Runtime: | 124 min |
Cast and Crew
as Kao
as Flathead
as Pretzel
as Ying
