Legend of the Mountain (1979)
- Original title
- 山中傳奇
- Directed by
- King Hu
- Genre
- drama film
- Country
- Hong Kong
- Runtime
- 3h 12m
- Rating
- 7.4 of 10 from 44 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A scholar travels to a remote mountain village to copy a Buddhist sutra. There he encounters supernatural forces and a mysterious woman.
slow-burnatmosphericmysteriousmeditativevisually lushmelancholicancientethereal
What happens
Legend of the Mountain (traditional Chinese: 山中傳奇; simplified Chinese: 山中传奇; Wade–Giles: Shan-chung ch'uan-ch'i) is a 1979 Taiwanese-Hong Kong film directed by King Hu. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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