Goodbye South, Goodbye

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Goodbye South, Goodbye ★★ Nanguo Zaijian, Nanguo 1996

Restless camera follows equally restless losers through Taiwan's sprawling suburbs. Kao (Kao) and his sidekick Flat-head (Giong) are minor gangsters running gambling dens and various scams. A kickback scheme involving corrupt bureaucrats and cops goes awry, Flathead gets beaten, and retaliation is in order. Thin characters tend not to hold a viewer's interest. Taiwanese with subtitles. 116m/C VHS, DVD . JP TW Jack Kao, Lim Giong, Kuei-ying Hsu, Annie Shizuka Inoh; D: Hou Hsiao-Hsien; W: Tien-wen Chu; C: Mark Lee Ping-Bin, Hwai-en Chen; M: Lim Giong.

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