In 1967, director King Hu released Dragon Inn, one of many Wuxia films to come out of the booming Taiwanese film industry. Soon after, Hong Kong dominated the East Asian market, and Taiwanese output shrank dramatically. In the 80’s Taiwanese cinema re-invented itself as a hub for personal, ambitious independent films. One such film was Tsai Ming-liang’s Goodbye Dragon Inn, a melancholy rumination on what was, and a pioneering work of slow cinema.