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Wikipedia article




'Goodbye South, Goodbye' is a 1996 crime drama film directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien. The film had its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival on 12 May 1996.

Plot



Gao (Jack Kao) rides the train to Pinghsi to set up a 10-day gambling den with his friend Hsi (Hsi Hsiang). He takes his acolyte Flatty (Lim Giong) and Pretzel (Annie Shizuka Inoh), Flatty's girlfriend, who works part-time in a night club. Gao's girlfriend Ying (Hsu Kuei-Ying) works in the same night club as Pretzel and doesn't like the people around Gao, finding them dangerous. Gao has already made a deal with Hsi to invest in a nightclub in Shanghai, but Ying doesn't want him to go. Instead, she wants him to stay in Taiwan to open a restaurant. A succession of get-rich-quick schemes leads them to the brink of disaster. Throughout the course of the film the unsavory alliance between the underworld and the political elite emerges.

Cast



*Jack Kao as Gao

*Lim Giong as Flat Head

*Annie Shizuka Inoh as Pretzel

*Hsi Hsiang as Hsi

*Hsu Kuei-Ying as Ying

*Lei Ming as Gao's father

*Lien Pi-tung as Tung

*Kao Ming as Ming

*Vicky Wei as Hui

Production



Soundtrack



The film's soundtrack was released in Taiwan by Magic Stone in 1996, as well as in Japan by Soundtrack Listeners Communications on March 21, 1997.

Reception



'Goodbye South, Goodbye' was entered into the 1996 Cannes Film Festival, but lost to 'Secrets & Lies'.

Critical response

The film was chosen along with 'The Bridges of Madison County' and 'Carlito's Way' as the best film of the 1990s by 'Cahiers du cinma'. Director Luca Guadagnino also listed it as one of his 10 favorite films in the 2012 'Sight & Sound' poll.

References




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