First Look at New 2K Restoration of King Hu's Raining in the Mountain
HomeFirst Look at New 2K Restoration of King Hu's Raining in the Mountain
Posted December 18, 2019 04:30 PM by Webmaster
Eureka Entertainment has provided an official; trailer for the new 2K restoration of King Hu's film Raining in the Mountain (1979), starring Feng Hsu, Yueh Sun, Chun Shih, Feng Tien, and Hui Lou Chen.
The new restoration will be released on Blu-ray on February 24.
Synopsis: Set in a remote Buddhist monastery in 16th Century China, RAINING IN THE MOUNTAIN deals with a power struggle that ensues when the Abbot of the Three Treasures Temple announces his imminent retirement.
The ageing Abbot invites three outsiders to advise him on the critical choice of appointing his successor: Esquire Wen, a wealthy patron of the monastery, General Wang, commander-in-chief of the local military, and Wu Wai, a respected lay Buddhist master. Within the monastery, several disciples aspiring to the position begin to collude individually with Esquire Wen and General Wang. But these two invited advisers have come with seditious intent, scheming to obtain the priceless scroll housed in the monastery: the scriptural text of "The Mahayana Sutra," hand-copied by Tripitaka. Meanwhile, convicted criminal Chiu Ming has arrived at the monastery to atone as a monk. He is assigned to safeguard the scroll at the house of scriptures, and encounters thieving rivals White Fox who poses as Esquire Wen's concubine and General Wang's fearsome Lieutenant Chang, who originally framed Chiu Ming for the crime he did not commit.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
The new restoration will be released on Blu-ray on February 24.
Synopsis: Set in a remote Buddhist monastery in 16th Century China, RAINING IN THE MOUNTAIN deals with a power struggle that ensues when the Abbot of the Three Treasures Temple announces his imminent retirement.
The ageing Abbot invites three outsiders to advise him on the critical choice of appointing his successor: Esquire Wen, a wealthy patron of the monastery, General Wang, commander-in-chief of the local military, and Wu Wai, a respected lay Buddhist master. Within the monastery, several disciples aspiring to the position begin to collude individually with Esquire Wen and General Wang. But these two invited advisers have come with seditious intent, scheming to obtain the priceless scroll housed in the monastery: the scriptural text of "The Mahayana Sutra," hand-copied by Tripitaka. Meanwhile, convicted criminal Chiu Ming has arrived at the monastery to atone as a monk. He is assigned to safeguard the scroll at the house of scriptures, and encounters thieving rivals White Fox who poses as Esquire Wen's concubine and General Wang's fearsome Lieutenant Chang, who originally framed Chiu Ming for the crime he did not commit.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- NEW 2K RESTORATION OF THE FILM, from the Taiwan Film Institute
- Optional English subtitles
- Original Mandarin audio, fully restored and uncompressed in its original monaural presentation
- Brand new and exclusive feature-length audio commentary by critic and Asian cinema expert Tony Rayns
- Beyond Description A brand new video essay by David Cairns
- Trailer
- PLUS: a collector's booklet featuring new essays by Chinese-language film expert and author Stephen Teo; and Asian cinema expert David West, news editor at NEO magazine
- Limited Edition O-Card (First print run of 2000 copies only)
