{"id":14321,"date":"2021-06-21T21:00:40","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T01:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=14321"},"modified":"2021-06-20T17:34:34","modified_gmt":"2021-06-20T21:34:34","slug":"raining-in-the-mountain-1979-king-hu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/14321","title":{"rendered":"Raining in the Mountain (1979, King Hu)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Competing groups arrive for a faithful abbot&#8217;s retirement, each scheming with one of the abbot&#8217;s protege monks to get their hands on the monastery&#8217;s priceless scroll.  Such smooth editing, hard to find scene breaks as the whole thing flows together, and modern looking for 1979.  Almost the entire cast was in King Hu&#8217;s <em>Legend of the Mountain<\/em> the same year.<\/p>\n<p>Sailor Wen (Yueh Sun: <em>City on Fire<\/em>) brings thief White Fox (<em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/12947\">Touch of Zen<\/a><\/em> star Feng Hsu) and tassel-face Gold Lock (Ming-Tsai Wu, a student in <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/14221\">Fist of Fury<\/a><\/em>).  His rival The General (Feng Tien of <em>Green Snake<\/em>) brings cop Kuang Yu Wang (in a John Woo, a Wei Lo\/Jackie Chan, and a &#8220;Bruce Li&#8221; the same year), who is archenemy to the newest monk, reformed criminal Chiu Ming (Lin Tung, the movie&#8217;s assistant director).  Old master Wu Wai (Chia-Hsiang Wu, in movies since the 1940&#8217;s) may be up to something, or maybe just a distraction.  Chiu Ming is made the new abbot and his first act is to destroy the scroll, and the villains go home unhappy.<\/p>\n<p><em>Fox \/ Lock \/ Wen:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/raining1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><em>The cop gets his:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/raining2.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Competing groups arrive for a faithful abbot&#8217;s retirement, each scheming with one of the abbot&#8217;s protege monks to get their hands on the monastery&#8217;s priceless scroll. Such smooth editing, hard to find scene breaks as the whole thing flows together, and modern looking for 1979. Almost the entire cast was in King Hu&#8217;s Legend of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[400,2526,1744,427],"class_list":["post-14321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1970s","tag-king-hu","tag-monks","tag-taiwan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14321"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14340,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14321\/revisions\/14340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}