Goodbye South, Goodbye
Goodbye South, Goodbye is a 1996 Taiwanese drama film directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien. The film had its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival on 12 May 1996.
Plot
Gao rides the train to Pinghsi to set up a 10-day gambling den with his friend Hsi. He takes his acolyte Flatty and Pretzel, Flatty's girlfriend, who works part-time in a night club. Gao's girlfriend 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