1979 · wuxia · drama · taiwanese
Raining in the Mountain
Directed by King Hu2h 1m1979
In Ming Dynasty China, the retiring abbot of a Buddhist monastery invites two dignitaries to help him choose a successor, not suspecting that both of them have hired help to steal a priceless parchment kept in the temple.
Our read: Raining in the Mountain (1979) reads as a neutral, steady, inventive wuxia · drama · taiwanese entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Neutral, steady, measured wuxia / drama, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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