Dragon Gate Inn (1967)
1967 Taiwanese wuxia film directed by King Hu
- Released
- 21 October 1967
- Country
- Taiwan
- Language
- Standard Chinese
- Genre
- Martial arts film
- Director
- King Hu
- Screenplay
- King Hu
- Music
- Chou Lan-Ping
- Cinematography
- Hua Hui-ying
- Editing
- Chen Hung-min
- Starring
- Hsu Feng, Shih Chun, Polly Shang-Kuan Ling-Feng
- Running time
- 111 minutes
- Set in
- Ming dynasty
Dragon Inn (龍門客棧), also known as Dragon Gate Inn, is a 1967 Taiwanese wuxia film written and directed by King Hu. Set in 15th-century China during the Ming dynasty, the film follows a small, disparate band of martial artists who protect the exiled family members of a respected official from persecution by a treacherous eunuch and the secret police.
Hu had recently left Hong Kong to Taiwan where he set-up the short-lived Union Film Company. The film was shot in 1966. The film was released in 1967, and broke box‐office records in Taiwan, Korea, and the Philippines.
Dragon Inn received positive retrospective reviews in Empire, Radio Times and Sight & Sound, with critic Michael Brooke of the latter magazine referring to the film as "one of the most important wuxia films to emerge from the Chinese-speaking world prior to the great martial arts boom of the turn of the 1970s." The film was remade as New Dragon Gate Inn (1992) and Flying Swords of Dragon Gate (2011).
More films directed by King Hu
- Come Drink with Me 1966
- A Touch of Zen 1971
- The Fate of Lee Khan 1973
- The Valiant Ones 1975
- Raining in the Mountain 1979
- The Swordsman 1990
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Facts from Wikidata Q1213356 (CC0); quoted introduction from English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Data retrieved 2026-10-22.
Data: Wikidata (CC0 1.0); Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.