Taiwanese director Tsai Ming-liang's art-house curiosity isn't for everyone, but serious film buffs will find this spare, elegant tone poem echoing in their minds long after they leave the theater. On a dark and stormy night, a young Japanese man (Kiyonobu Mitamura) takes shelter in a run-down movie theater that's closing that same evening. A handful of moviegoers have turned out to see the last picture show, King Hu's seminal martial-arts picture DRAGON INN (1966). The front row is occupied by a small boy and his elderly grandfather (Miao Tien), who bears a strong resemblance to one of the film's characters (who is, in fact, played by the same actor, nearly 40 yea...
Released:
2003
Rated:
NR
Length:
81 mins