The Taking of Tiger Mountain (2014)

Original title

智取威虎山

Directed by

Tsui Hark

Genre

action film, adventure film

Country

Hong Kong, People's Republic of China

Runtime

2h 21m

Rated

16

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 215 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A PLA soldier goes undercover to infiltrate a bandit gang in a snowy forest. The film follows his mission to defeat the outlaws and take a mountain stronghold.

adventurousvisually lushsuspensefulhistoricalepicheroicfast-pacedpatriotic

What happens

The Taking of Tiger Mountain (Chinese: 智取威虎山) is a 2014 epic action adventure film directed by Tsui Hark, produced by Huang Jianxin and Yu Dong, and based on the novel Tracks in the Snowy Forest by Qu Bo. A Chinese-Hong Kong co-production, the story is based on the revolutionary opera of the same name about a conflict between the People's Liberation Army of China and a bandit gang. It was released on December 23, 2014. Zhang Hanyu portrays Yang Zirong and Lin Gengxin takes on the role of Shao Jianbo, the two protagonists of the story. While Yang Zirong (1917–1947) is based on the real-life person, the other hero of the story Shao Jianbo is fictional, and Qu Bo created the character based on himself, as the story is seen through the point of view of Shao Jianbo. Bona Film Group bought the rights to the novel in 2009 and had been planning the adaptation since. Qu Bo's novel was also famously adapted into the opera Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy, from which the film takes its title. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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