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A dream sequence in one of these locations includes a torrential downpour of ping pong balls followed by various inhabitants of a rural town cruelly laughing at the protagonist. Detective Ma Zhe bases a murder investigation out of an abandoned one of these locations in Wei Shujun’s Only the River Flows. In a different film, a shot in one of these locations moves from a man’s trembling hand holding a gun to an upside down view of his oblivious target. Later in that film, a man drifts off in one of these locations (15[1])and the film’s title card appears, followed by an (*) hour-long shot that begins with him on an abandoned mine railway track; (10[1])that film is Bi Gan’s Long Day’s Journey into Night. A man tells a Japanese tourist at one of these locations that it is haunted by ghosts, and a woman with a limp working at that location tries to give a steamed bun to her coworker. For 10 points, the closing of what type of location is central to Tsai Ming-liang’s (10[1])Goodbye, Dragon Inn? ■END■ (10[1]0[2])

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