Event

Legend of the Mountain

Legend of the Mountain

Thu Mar 01: 7.00pm
Fri Mar 02: 7.00pm
Sat Mar 03: 3.30pm
Sun Mar 04: 3.30pm, 7.00pm

King Hu
Taiwan/Hong Kong
1979
3h 11m

About
** New 4K restoration! **

With Legend of the Mountain, legendary filmmaker King Hu moved away from the wuxia genre that had defined his most well known masterpieces, such as Dragon Inn and A Touch of Zen. The film is an extrapolation of the mysticism of the latter film, taking place in a world populated by a seemingly endless number of possible spirits, ghosts and demons, as it follows a Song dynasty copyist (Shih Chun) who ventures to an old fort in order to copy a powerful Buddhist sutra, only to come across a host of mysterious individuals played by such venerated actors as Hsu Feng and Sylvia Chang. Featuring a multitude of shifting allegiances, murky motivations, betrayals, and romances, all united under the stunning power of Hus direction, it is a staggering, hallucinatory, beautiful experience.