Goodbye, Dragon Inn

The Ticket Woman (Chen Shiang-Chyi) wants one more evening with the Projectionist (Lee Kang-sheng) before the old Taipei picture palace shuts for good. It is a dark, wet night, and a thin audience sits down to King Hu's *Dragon Inn*, a Japanese tourist among them. Tsai Ming-liang follows the staff through the empty corridors, where she limps from room to room and he stays out of reach.