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Monk Comes Down the Mountain is a chinois film of genre Comedy directed by Chen Kaige released in france in DVD on 5 july 2017 with Aaron Kwok
Monk Comes Down the Mountain (2015)
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Add to a movie listMonk Comes Down the Mountain (Chinese: 道士下山) is a 2015 Chinese fantasy-adventure-comedy film directed by Chen Kaige and starring Wang Baoqiang, Aaron Kwok, Chang Chen, Lin Chi-ling, Fan Wei, Yuen Wah, Vanness Wu, Wang Xueqi, Danny Chan, Lam Suet and Dong Qi. It is based on the best-selling novel Dao Shi Xia Shan (A Monk Comes Down the Mountain) by Xu Haofeng. Filming started in March 2014 on location in Xianghe, China’s Hebei Province. The film was released on July 3, 2015. It will be available in IMAX 3D.
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Le film, basé sur un best-seller, raconte l’histoire d’un moine taoïste doué en kung-fu qui quitte une montagne isolée pour aller en ville dans les années 1920 et y découvrir son rôle dans le monde laïque, où il devient impliqué dans des complots et rencontre d’étranges personnages.Actors
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