Mount Lao Taoist Priest (1981)
Wang Qi is a lazy scholar who doesn't want to study hard, he only likes reading a book about the adventures of the immortals and dreams about becoming an immortal himself. One day, he dreams that he travelled to Mount Lao where he takes an old Taoist priest as his master, hoping to become an immortal.
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Highly Overrated But Still Good
It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.
The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.
By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.