Goodbye Friend (1971) poster
1971 · heist · noir · debut

Goodbye Friend

Directed by Ho Lin-Chow, Jazz Siam1h 21m1971
ElsewhereIMDb6.229TMDB7.01
  • sombre
  • brisk
  • intense
Movie DNA

Sombre, kinetic, measured heist / noir, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

How every film is hand-scored →

Goodbye My Friend is a Hong Kong Crime-Drama starring Chow Yun-Fat.

Our read · Goodbye Friend (1971) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded heist · noir · debut entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

Video previewNo trailer available for this one.
Where the cast leads
Where to watch
Not on streaming here right now.Check JustWatch Check Letterboxd
More info & search links
Fingerprint

The shape of Goodbye Friend

Tonight, this looks like

What watching it is actually like.

You want early Chow Yun-Fat Hong Kong crime drama of loyalty and underworld life.

ends bittersweetyou’ll be fine aftersteady all the waygrips by minute 10attention 3/5earns its lengthsubtitles: full
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upgraphic violence

Skip it tonightSkip if subtitles or older HK action-crime will not engage you.

DNA · twelve axes

The reading.

Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
Your take
Rate it
star-clip-1-0star-clip-2-0star-clip-3-0star-clip-4-0star-clip-5-0
React
Discussion

Discussion

cmd enter to post

What does your Movie DNA look like?

Rate a few films you've seen. We map your taste across the same twelve axes and find the films you'll actually want to watch tonight.

Calibrate yourself