King Hu’s 1979 Raining the Mountain was shot in and around the stunning Bulguksa Buddhist temple in the verdant South Korea countryside. A lengthy renovation of the temple had only been completed a handful of years prior and it would...
With the exception of a sly prologue and a bravura finale, King Hu’s 1973 The Fate of Lee Khan takes place almost entirely inside a 14th century inn located in rural China. In that sense, it could almost be a...