Director Tsui Hark‘s latest period action epic, The Taking Of Tiger Mountain is still on track for a Christmay Day 3D release in China next week, but now the word is that Well Go USA is granting a limited theatrical opening January 2, 2015 in limited cities. The film is based on late author Qu Bo’s 1957 debut short novel and subsequent 1960’s Beijing opera centers on a real-life event that took place in 1946 during the Chinese Civil War about a hero Communist soldier who infiltrates a gang of bandits.
The Taking Of Tiger Mountain stars Zhang Hanyu, Zhou Dongyu, Gao Hu, Tong Liya, Lin Gengxin and Han Geng. The release is reportedly being timed for Asians audiences in the U.S. and Canada with twenty locations between the cities of New York, Los Angeles, Seattle, Toronto and Vancouver. For more information, visit the official Well Go USA website.
H/T: Deadline
