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Oct 30, 2020 · During the Ming Dynasty, a Buddhist abbot charged with protecting the sacred scroll of Tripitaka prepares to name his successor. An aristocrat and a general arrive at his secluded mountaintop monastery promising to help in his search, but are in fact scheming to secure the scroll for themselves. As they set about recommending corrupt successors, rival bands of martial artists lie in wait to ...
Raining on the Mountain is a sorely neglected little gem of a Chinese flick. I would say "kung fu flick", but that's almost wholly untrue. There are several fight scenes (most notably near the climax), but the film seems much more interested in the fluidity and the composition of these scenes than the actual viscera of the bloody mouths and body blows.
Raining in the Mountain A Buddhist abbot charged with protecting a sacred scroll prepares to name his successor. An aristocrat and a general promise to help in his search, but are in fact scheming to secure the scroll for themselves.
- 121 min
"Raining in the Mountain" is one of the best films in King Hu's filmography, as it thrives both visually and contextually, while its duration (120 minutes approximately) also makes it one of his ...
An esquire brings a female thief and his bailiff to search out a priceless handwritten scroll by Tripitaka, in a temple at the mountains. Meanwhile, a General and his lieutenant arrives for the same reason.
Oct 29, 2020 · Another in a string of restorations that in recent years have benefitted fans of wuxia legend King Hu, Raining in the Mountain is one of two pictures the late Hong Kong- and Taiwan-based auteur ...
Raining in the Mountain (zh|c=空山靈雨) is a 1979 Wuxia Caper story written and directed by King Hu and starring Hsu Feng, one of their many collaborations after A Touch of Zen. However this caper takes place in a Buddhist mountain monastery during China's Ming Dynasty.
