Eureka Entertainment have announced today that they have collaborated with US distributor, Kino Lorber, to acquire all rights for UK, Ireland and North America, from the Taiwan Film Institute for King Hu's Legend of the Mountain.
Presented in a new 4K digital restoration, the three-hour director's cut of King Hu's Legend of the Mountain received its debut at the Venice Film Festival. Hu, a master of the wuxia swordplay subgenre of martial arts cinema, is perhaps best known for Come Drink with Me, Dragon Inn, and A Touch of Zen. For his late-period Legend of the Mountain, Hu turned instead to a supernatural fable set during the 11th-century Sung Dynasty, drawing upon Pu Songling's classic 18th-century collection Stories from a Chinese Studio and filming independently on location in the South Korean countryside.
