The Deserted Inn
2008 · 106 MIN · IMDB 4.2 · 38 VOTES · DIR. Zhang Jing
Overview
In this thriller Kenny KWAN stars as a music composer MENG Fan, whose career has hit rock bottom when he's unable to come up with another surefire hit after "Sorry I love you", which launched his career a few years back. He has also just split up with his long time girlfriend, HE Ying when she pressures him to get married. One day when surfing the internet, he comes across an old town named "Huang Cun", which has picturesque scene of golden flowers and bamboo forest, as well as a a local inn aptly named "The Deserted Inn" with the legend of a beauty called "Rouge". In an attempt to take his mind off his problems and seek inpiration to write the next hit song he sorely needs, he sets out for a journet to "The deserted inn". Upon checking into the inn, MENG Fan encounters a series of strange events - He is having nightmares that push him to the verge of a nervous breakdown, until he unveils the hidden past of the innkeeper.
Dialogue Timeline — 745 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:01:42 No matter how curious you are to this story
00:05:28 I am sorry
00:08:32 I mean Yanzhi's bed
00:15:35 While did you hear the song of Yanzhi?
00:17:01 and disappeared in the bamboo forest
00:20:54 How do you do?
00:23:02 The weather of that year was so different
00:24:54 Sorry, I got to go
00:34:03 Just have a look
00:35:59 We have a legend here
00:37:46 He Ying
00:40:30 In our deserted
00:42:03 when we finished our "divorce"
00:44:28 I get the inspiration again
00:48:02 Mr. Ouyang?
00:59:54 Xiaozhi told me that
01:02:21 just like this
01:07:28 and magazines in it
01:09:33 How long did it take you to finish it?
01:14:06 I needed such a song
01:15:32 You could lie to her and leave her
01:17:36 unless foothills disappearing
01:19:45 I have felt guilty all the time
01:24:33 Xiaozhi had already left him forever