Monk Comes Down the Mountain

Monk Comes Down the Mountain
Directed byChen Kaige
Produced byChen Hong
StarringWang Baoqiang
Aaron Kwok
Chang Chen
Lin Chi-ling
Fan Wei
Yuen Wah
Vanness Wu
Wang Xueqi
Danny Chan
Lam Suet
Dong Qi
CinematographyGeoffrey Simpson
Music byKlaus Badelt
Production
companies
New Classics Media
Columbia Pictures
Distributed byNew Classics Media
Release dates
  • July 3, 2015 (2015-07-03) (China)
  • December 6, 2015 (2015-12-06) (United States)
Running time
123 minutes
Countries
  • China
  • United States
Languages
  • Mandarin
  • English
Box officeUS$64.2 million

Monk 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, Hebei. The film was released on July 3, 2015. It was the first movie with DTS:X and was available in IMAX 3D.