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Main page Dragon Inn (also known as Dragon Gate Inn) is a 1967 Taiwanese wuxia film written and directed by King Hu. The film was
Dragon Inn
Contents remade in 1992, as New Dragon Gate Inn, and again in 2011 as The Flying Swords of Dragon Gate[4][3]
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Tsao, the emperor's first eunuch, has successfully bested General Yu, his political opponent. The general was beheaded and his
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remaining children have been exiled from China. As the children are being escorted to the western border of the Chinese Traditional 龍門客棧
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Wikidata item empire, Tsao plots to have the children killed. Tsao's secret police lie in ambush at the desolate Dragon Gate Inn. Martial arts Simplified 龙门客栈
Cite this page expert Hsiao shows up at the inn, wanting to meet the innkeeper. Unknown to the secret police is that the innkeeper, Wu Ning, Mandarin Lóng Mén Kè Zhàn
was one of the general's lieutenants and has summoned Hsiao to help the children. A brother-sister martial-artist team (children Directed by King Hu
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of another Yu lieutenant) also show up to help. These four race to find Yu's children and lead them to safety. Produced by LS Chang[1]
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Written by King Hu[1]
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Printable version Production [ edit ] Starring Lingfeng Shangguan
Chun Shih
In 1965, director King Hu left the Hong Kong-based Shaw Brothers Studio just after completing Come Drink with Me.[5] Hu left Ying Bai
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for Taiwan where he met with Sha Rongfeng.[5] The two created the short-lived studio called the Union Film Company.[5] Dragon Chien Tsao[1]
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Español Inn was shot in Taiwan in 1966.[5] Music by Lan-Ping Chow[1]
Français Cinematography Hui-Ying Hua[1]
⽇本語 Release [ edit ] Edited by Hung-min Chen[2]
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Production Union Film Company[2]
中文 Dragon Inn premiered in 1967.[1] The film set box‐office records in Taiwan, Korea, and the Philippines.[6] The Union Film company
Edit links Company did not make a great profit from the film however, as they had a deal with Shaw Brothers who owned the distribution
Release date 1967
rights to Dragon Inn in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia.[7] Shaw Brothers had this deal as via an exchange that was done in
Running time 111 minutes[3]
trade for letting King Hu break his contract with them to work on Dragon Inn.[7] Dragon Inn was first shown in North America at
Country Taiwan[3]
the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival.[2]

Audiences in Australia were luckier, seeing it released in Melbourne and Sydney in the early 1970s, although some of the showings were devoid of English subtitles and it took
intrepid enthusiasts of kung fu movies to seek out specialist, late-night cinemas in order to see it. In Australia, it was mainly known by the name "Dragon Gate Inn," which is
another possible translation of the Chinese title.

Dragon Inn was released in the United Kingdom on Blu-ray and DVD by the Masters of Cinema Series.[8]

It was released in the United States on Blu-ray July 2018 by The Criterion Collection

Reception [ edit ]

At the 1968 Golden Horse Awards, Dragon Inn won the award for Best Screenplay and was a runner-up for Best Director.[6]

Modern reception of the film in Taiwan is positive.[9] In 2011, the Tapei Golden Horse Film Festival had 122 industry professionals take part in the survey.[9] This voters included
film scholars, festival programmers, film directors, actors and producers to vote for the 100 Greatest Chinese-Language Films.[9] Dragon Inn tied with Wong Kar-wai's In the
Mood for Love (2000) for ninth place on the list.[9]

In the United Kingdom, Empire gave the film four stars out five, referring to it as a "A keystone of the wuxia genre" and noted that the film "may lack plot complexity and period
spectacle. But the stand-off in a remote inn is flecked with tension, wit and slick martial artistry."[10] Michael Brooke (Sight & Sound) referred to Dragon Inn as "one of the most
important wuxia pian films to emerge from the Chinese-speaking world prior to the great martial arts boom of the turn of the 1970s." and that it was "riotously entertaining".[11]
Brooks commented on the action scenes, opining that they "aren't quite as breath-catchingly dexterous as the ones Hong Kong cinema would later produce, they're both lively
and agreeably frequent, with Hu using the Scope frame to its full advantage".[11] Brooke concluded that "If it's not quite first-rank Hu when set against A Touch of Zen or The
Fate of Lee Khan, it makes for a superb introduction."[11] The Radio Times gave the film a four out of five star rating, and felt the film surpassed Come Drink With Me, noting
that Hu's "control over camera movement and composition is exemplary, building the tension and invigorating the swordplay."[12]

Aftermath and influence [ edit ]

Dragon Inn was remade twice, first as New Dragon Gate Inn (1992) and again in 2011 as Flying Swords of Dragon Gate.[13][14]

Taiwanese director Tsai Ming-Liang directed the critically acclaimed film Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003).[15] The film is set in a decrepit Taipei movie theater on its final night in
business where it is screening Dragon Inn. The films characters either watch the film very closely or are humorously distracted from it.[16]

See also [ edit ]

Cinema of Taiwan
List of Taiwanese films before 1970

References [ edit ]

Footnotes [ edit ]

1. ^ a b c d e f Dragon Inn (booklet). Masters of Cinema. 2015. p. 2. EKA70169. 10. ^ Parkinson, David (June 28, 2015). "Dragon Inn Review" . Empire. Archived from the
2. ^ a b c "Dragon Inn" . Toronto International Film Festival. Archived from the original original on November 4, 2015. Retrieved November 4, 2015.
on July 7, 2015. Retrieved July 6, 2015. 11. ^ a b c Brooke, Michael (February 2016). "Dragon Inn". Sight & Sound. Vol. 26 no. 2.
3. ^ a b c Dragon Inn (Back cover of sleeve). Masters of Cinema. 2015. EKA70169. British Film Institute. p. 100.

4. ^ Planet Hong Kong, p1, Harvard University Press, 2000，ISBN 0674002148， 12. ^ Healy, Jamie. "Dragon Inn" . Radio Times. Archived from the original on June 10,
ISBN 978-0674002142 2016. Retrieved May 3, 2016.

5. ^ a b c d Rayns, Tony (2015). Laying the Foundations: Dragon Gate Inn (booklet). 13. ^ Teh, Yvonne. "Art House: New Dragon Gate Inn" . 48 Hours. South China Morning
Masters of Cinema. p. 15. EKA70169. Post. Retrieved November 3, 2015.

6. ^ a b "Dragon Inn Press Kit" (PDF). Cannes Film Festival. Archived from the original 14. ^ Elley, Derek (January 23, 2012). "Flying Swords of Dragon Gate" . Film Business
(PDF) on November 9, 2015. Retrieved November 4, 2015. Asia. Archived from the original on August 1, 2012. Retrieved November 3, 2015.

7. ^ a b Lee 2012, p. 206. 15. ^ "Good Bye, Dragon Inn Reviews" . Metacritic. Retrieved November 3, 2015.

8. ^ "Dragon Inn" . Masters of Cinema. Retrieved November 4, 2015. 16. ^ Zacharek, Stephanie (September 16, 2004). "Goodbye, Dragon Inn" . Salon.
Retrieved November 3, 2015.
9. ^ a b c d Cremin, Stephen (January 27, 2011). "Horse announces greatest Chinese
films" . Film Business Asia. Archived from the original on May 16, 2017. Retrieved
November 4, 2015.

Sources [ edit ]

Lee, Daw-Ming (2012). Historical Dictionary of Taiwan Cinema. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 0810879220.

External links [ edit ]

Dragon Inn on IMDb

Dragon Inn at AllMovie
Dragon Inn at the Hong Kong Movie DataBase
Collection of reviews of Dragon Inn (1967)

· · Films directed by King Hu [hide]

Ding yishan (1964) · The Story of Sue San (1964) · Sons of the Good Earth (1965) · Come Drink with Me (1966) · Dragon Inn (1967) · A Touch of Zen (1971) ·
Feature films The Fate of Lee Khan (1973) · The Valiant Ones (1975) · Raining in the Mountain (1979) · Legend of the Mountain (1979) · Juvenizer (1981) · All the King's Men (1983) ·
The Swordsman (1990) · Painted Skin (1993)

Short films Hsi nou ai le (1970, segment "Anger") · The Wheel of Life (1983, part one)

Categories: 1967 films 1960s martial arts films Taiwanese films Taiwanese martial arts films Mandarin-language films Wuxia films Films directed by King Hu
Films shot in Taiwan Films set in 15th-century Ming dynasty

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