{"product_id":"goodbye-dragon-inn-aka-bu-san-blu-ray-1","title":"Goodbye Dragon Inn (aka: Bu san) (US Import BLU-RAY)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eUS IMPORT. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"products__description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-sheets-userformat='{\"2\":14653,\"3\":{\"1\":0,\"3\":1},\"5\":{\"1\":[{\"1\":2,\"2\":0,\"5\":{\"1\":2,\"2\":0}},{\"1\":0,\"2\":0,\"3\":3},{\"1\":1,\"2\":0,\"4\":1}]},\"6\":{\"1\":[{\"1\":2,\"2\":0,\"5\":{\"1\":2,\"2\":0}},{\"1\":0,\"2\":0,\"3\":3},{\"1\":1,\"2\":0,\"4\":1}]},\"7\":{\"1\":[{\"1\":2,\"2\":0,\"5\":{\"1\":2,\"2\":0}},{\"1\":0,\"2\":0,\"3\":3},{\"1\":1,\"2\":0,\"4\":1}]},\"8\":{\"1\":[{\"1\":2,\"2\":0,\"5\":{\"1\":2,\"2\":0}},{\"1\":0,\"2\":0,\"3\":3},{\"1\":1,\"2\":0,\"4\":1}]},\"11\":4,\"14\":{\"1\":2,\"2\":28864},\"15\":\"Calibri\",\"16\":12}' data-sheets-value='{\"1\":2,\"2\":\"Like the Royal Theater in The Last Picture Show and the title\\nmovie house in Cinema Paradiso, the Fu-Ho is shutting down\\nfor good. The Fu-Ho’s valedictory screening is King Hu’s\\n1967 wuxia epic Dragon Inn, playing to a motley smattering\\nof spectators. The standard grievances persist: patrons snack\\nnoisily and remove their shoes, treating this temple of cinema\\nlike their living room. The sense that moviegoing as a communal experience is slipping away takes on a\\npowerful and painful resonance. Yet Tsai Ming-liang’s Goodbye, Dragon Inn is too multifaceted to collapse\\ninto a simple valentine to the age of pre-VOD cinephilia. A minimalist where King Hu was a maximalist,\\npreferring long, static shots and sparse use of dialogue, Tsai rises to the narrative challenges he sets for\\nhimself and offers the slyest, most delicate of character arcs (the manager, a woman with an iron brace\\non her leg, embarks on a torturous odyssey to deliver food to the projectionist, played by Lee Kang-sheng).\\nBy the time the possibility arises that the theater is haunted, we’ve already identified it as a space outside\\nof time—indeed, two stars of Hu’s original opus, Miao Tien and Shih Chun, watch their younger selves\\nwith tears in their eyes, past and present commingling harmoniously and poignantly.\\n4K Restoration by CINEMATEK, the Royal Film Archive of Belgium.\"}'\u003eLike the Royal Theater in The Last Picture Show and the title movie house in Cinema Paradiso, the Fu-Ho is shutting down for good. 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