Raining in the Mountain
1979 · Movie · 121 min · ★ 7.2 · 95% critics
At a mountain monastery in Ming-era China, a retiring abbot gathers outside advisers to help choose his successor. As rival visitors quietly scheme to steal a treasured sacred scroll, the temple becomes a battleground of ambition, patience, and hidden motives.
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Details
- Original title
- 空山靈雨
- Years
- 1979
- Release date
- 1979-07-11
- Language
- Chinese
- Runtime
- 121 min
- Max quality
- HD
- Critic score
- 95/100
- TMDB rating
- 7.2/10 (47 votes)
About
You may like this if you enjoy meditative period dramas with scheming, spiritual themes, and bursts of martial arts, especially if A Touch of Zen or Dragon Inn appeal to you; Not for you if you want constant action.
Pros: beautiful visuals; quiet tension; thoughtful themes | Cons: very slow pace; sparse action; uneven flow
Themes
- heist
- wuxia
Awards & recognition
- International Submission to the Academy Awards · 1980 · nominated
Cast & crew
Hsu Feng
as White Fox
Sun Yueh
as Esquire Wen An
Tung Lin
as Chiu Ming / Hui Ming
Tien Feng
as General Wang Chi
Chen Hui-Lou
as Lieutenant Chang Cheng
Paul Chun Pui
as Hui Ssu
Shih Chun
as Hui Tung
Wu Chia-Hsiang
as Master Wu Wai
- CL
Chun Lu
as Hui Wen
- CC
Chin Chang-Ken
as The Abbot
Directed by King Hu