Raining in the Mountain ( Kong shan ling yu )

Raining in the Mountain (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Kong shan ling yu
Language Selections:
Chinese ( Mono )
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
115 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (2.35:1)

Special Features:
Biographies
Filmographies
Interactive Menu
Production Notes
Scene Access
Remastered

Movie filmed in 1979 and produced in:
Hong Kong ( India, Eastern Asia )
Taiwan ( India, Eastern Asia )

Directed By:
King Hu

Written By:
King Hu

Actors:
Feng Hsu ..... Hui Ssu
Yueh Sun
Chun Shih
Feng Tien
Hui Lou Chen
Paul Chun
Su Han
Wen Tai Li
Lin Tung
Kuang Yu Wang
Chia-hsiang Wu
Ming-tsai Wu

Synopsis:

The film concerns the selection of a new abbot for the Three Treasures Temple. The temple's current abbot invites three esteemed men to help him choose his successor: the worldly Esquire Wen, the fearsome General Wang, and the lay Buddhist master Wu Wai. However, Wen and Wang have arrived with agendas of their own; both men hope to pilfer the temple's copy of a priceless sutra, and have brought along cronies to help them do so. Esquire Wen is accompanied by the master thief White Fox (who is posing as Wen's concubine) and her accomplice Gold Lock. General Wang, on the other hand, is accompanied by his fearsome lieutenant. The plot is complicated by the arrival of Chiu Ming, a penitent who was sent to the temple as punishment after being framed for a crime by the lieutenant. Chiu Ming is soon entrusted by the current abbot with guarding the sutra.

Director King Hu's Raining in the Mountain is a meticulously composed, beautifully crafted film. It should be required viewing for any film fan who wrongly looks down upon 'old school' martial arts films as shoddy, lowest-common denominator fare.

Set during the Ming Dynasty, the retiring Abbot of the San Pao Temple must choose between his chief disciples for the succession.

This product was added to our catalog on Friday 24 December, 2010.

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