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Director
  
King Hu

Music director
  
King Ng-tai

Duration
  

Country
  
Hong KongTaiwan

7.6/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Action, Drama

Screenplay
  
King Hu

Writer
  
King Hu

Language
  
Mandarin

Raining in the Mountain movie poster

Release date
  
11 July 1979 (1979-07-11)

Cast
  
Tung Lam
(Chiu Ming),
Hsu Feng
(White Fox),
Paul Chun Pui
,
Ng Ming-Choi
(Gold Lock)

Similar movies
  
Directed by King Hu, Set in monasteries, Action movies

Raining in the Mountain (simplified Chinese: 空山灵雨; traditional Chinese: 空山靈雨; pinyin: Kong shan ling yu) is a 1979 Hong Kong-Taiwan drama film directed by King Hu. The film was selected as the Hong Kong entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 52nd Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.

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Raining in the Mountain Classic Chinese CinemaRaining in the Mountain Taste of Cinema

The film tells the story of a Ming Dynasty monastery on a mountain. A general and an esquire each employ martial artists to help steal a handwritten scroll of Tripitaka hidden in the monastery's library. Meanwhile, the abbot of the monastery looks for a successor.

King hu raining in the mountain clip 1


Cast

  • Hsu Feng
  • Sun Yueh
  • Shih Jun
  • Tien Feng
  • Chen Hui Lou
  • Paul Chun - Hui Ssu
  • Tung Lin

    • Places

    The temple featured since the first scene of the film is the world-famous Bulguksa located in Gyeongju in South Korea Gyeongsangdo. Its architecture is typical of Korean temples, not Chinese ones.

    References

    Raining in the Mountain Wikipedia
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    Raining in the Mountain IMDb Raining in the Mountain themoviedb.org


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