Dragon Gate Inn
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Film poster for Dragon Inn
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| Traditional | 龍門客棧 |
| Simplified | 龙门客栈 |
| Mandarin | Lóng Mén Kè Zhàn |
| Directed by | King Hu |
| Produced by | LS Chang |
| Written by | King Hu |
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| Music by | Lan-Ping Chow |
| Cinematography | Hui-Ying Hua |
| Edited by | Hung-min Chen |
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Union Film Company
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Running time
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111 minutes |
| Country | Taiwan |
Dragon Inn, also known as Dragon Gate Inn, is a 1967 Taiwanese wuxia film directed by King Hu. The film was remade in 1992, as New Dragon Gate Inn, and again in 2011 as The Flying Swords of Dragon Gate.
Tsao, the emperor's first eunuch, has successfully bested General Yu, his political opponent. The general was beheaded and his remaining children have been exiled from China. As the children are being escorted to the western border of the Chinese empire, Tsao plots to have the children killed. Tsao's secret police lie in ambush at the desolate Dragon Gate Inn. Martial arts expert Hsiao shows up at the inn, wanting to meet the innkeeper. Unknown to the secret police is that the innkeeper, Wu Ning, was one of the general's lieutenants and has summoned Hsiao to help the children. A brother-sister martial-artist team (children of another Yu lieutenant) also show up to help. These four race to find Yu's children and lead them to safety.
In 1965, director King Hu left the Hong Kong-based Shaw Brothers Studio just after completing Come Drink with Me. Hu left for Taiwan where he met with Sha Rongfeng. The two created the short-lived studio called the Union Film Company.Dragon Inn was shot in Taiwan in 1966.
Dragon Inn premiered in 1967. The film set box‐office records in Taiwan, Korea, and the Philippines. The Union Film Company did not make a great profit from the film however, as they had a deal with Shaw Brothers who owned the distribution rights to Dragon Inn in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia. Shaw Brothers had this deal as via an exchange that was done in trade for letting King Hu break his contract with them to work on Dragon Inn.Dragon Inn was first shown in North America at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival.
Dragon Inn was released in the United Kingdom on Blu-ray and DVD by the Masters of Cinema Series. The 4K restoration premiered in the U.S. at the Seattle International Film Festival in June 2016.
At the 1968 Golden Horse Awards, Dragon Inn won the award for Best Screenplay and was a runner-up for Best Director.
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