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Once Upon A Time in Lingjian Mountain

Original title: Cong qian you zuo ling jian shan
  • TV Series
  • 2019
  • TV-14
IMDb RATING
7.1/10
476
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Kai Xu and Sandrine Pinna in Once Upon A Time in Lingjian Mountain (2019)
Coming-of-AgeCostume DramaMartial ArtsSlapstickActionAdventureComedyDramaFantasyRomance

As the nine continents face a crisis, a young disciple joins the Spirit Blade sect and comes under the tutelage of a temperamental sage.As the nine continents face a crisis, a young disciple joins the Spirit Blade sect and comes under the tutelage of a temperamental sage.As the nine continents face a crisis, a young disciple joins the Spirit Blade sect and comes under the tutelage of a temperamental sage.

  • Creator
    • Bixia Guowang
  • Stars
    • Kai Xu
    • Yuanbing Zhu
    • Sandrine Pinna
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    7.1/10
    476
    YOUR RATING
    • Creator
      • Bixia Guowang
    • Stars
      • Kai Xu
      • Yuanbing Zhu
      • Sandrine Pinna
    • 8User reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 1 win & 2 nominations total

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    Kai Xu
    Kai Xu
    • Wang Lu
    • 2019
    Yuanbing Zhu
    Yuanbing Zhu
    • Hai Yunfan
    • 2019
    Sandrine Pinna
    Sandrine Pinna
    • Wang Wu
    • 2019
    Junhao Li
    • Wen Bao
    • 2019
    Yuer Gao
    Yuer Gao
    • Feng Ling
    • 2019
    Roger Kwok
    Roger Kwok
    • Feng Yin
    • 2019
    Xizi Li
    • Yue Yun
    • 2019
    Wenjun He
    • Zhu Qin
    • 2019
    Lingchen Xu
    Lingchen Xu
    • Wang Zhong
    • 2019
    BeBe Du
    BeBe Du
    • Yue Xinyao
    • 2019
    Shaogang Zhang
    Shaogang Zhang
    • Old Wang Zhong
    • 2019
    Xiaoting Guo
    Xiaoting Guo
    • Liu Lixian…
    • 2019
    Sheng-hao Wen
    Sheng-hao Wen
    • Hai Tian Kuo
    • 2019
    Vincent Xin Huang
    • Fang He
    • 2019
    Vivian Dawson
    Vivian Dawson
    • Ouyang Shang
    • 2019
    Baihao Qiu
    • Lu Li
    • 2019
    Yun'er Zhu
    • Hua Yuan
    • 2019
    Shengwen Ruan
    Shengwen Ruan
    • Xue Bo Ren
    • 2019
    • Creator
      • Bixia Guowang
    • All cast & crew
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    User reviews8

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    10goodloe-89737

    Loved it!

    My husband and I both like wuxia /martial arts shows. We binge watched it together and was hooked from the first episode! All the characters were great! Love the storyline and how it tied all the characters together. Great details and costumes. Wang Wu and Wang Lu were great! Honestly I liked all the characters! Please make a season 2!!! We are anxious to see how Lingjian sect will handle the sky demon!👍👍👍👍👍
    3allan-14931

    What is this incomptently made dumassery

    Even the original language doesn't sync with the mouthes. Who on Earth dubs the original language?

    On top of that it is just a not funny comedy.
    8ms-duku

    Different but worthwhile

    Finally something different on screen. The series is a chinese comic (manhua) like story. Sometimes difficult to understand because I am not chinese and do not always have the background, other than having read a handfull of the comics. I was hooked from the start and am half way through the series. Explanation about the artifacts, fruits and herbs were absent in the first few episodes but they started explaining after a while. Although I still think they could do more about it because it would give more feeling how importand and valuable some of the artifacts are. Also the refining proces of the Qi could be more elaborated. Subtitles are only in rapid english on Netflix.

    Why I still like the series is because I love the characters, the costumes, the settings, the story and there are some good fighting scenes. It is refeshing and funny. The humor is typical chinese with over the top overacting but it is more spot on than not. Sandrine Pinna plays the master Wang character which she does perfectly with good timing.
    10andreaenglezou

    Uniquely refreshing

    I loved this series as it had segments along the way that I had never seen before in a Chinese drama series so it was very refreshing. I like all the cast but love Xu Kai who's such a versatile actor, he can be funny and goofy one moment and totally serious the next. I love the story and how it goes back to help us understand more about the characters. I love the friendship between Wang Lu and Hai Yunfan. A lot of the characters have interesting personalities. Ive enjoyed the completion/quests part of the series. What I've learnt from this series is that things are not always what they seem. I'm off to start another Xu Kai series.
    2MovieGuardian

    Started a promising sequel.,..then

    Watched this series through Netflix. At the beginning it was a promising series. Adventure, fiction, mystery, action...has the tell tale of a good movie. Sat down through the subtitles... being very patient... Started having doubts and questions around episode 4. I am not sure why the writers, directors, producers went from being mysterious to being "not funny, funny.. but it's not funny, more like slapstick silly that's not funny. Did I say not funny ? It's not supposed to be funny, but that is the direction they went, and it's not funny, and lost all the mystery, and adventure. OK, let me put it this way, it went from rated MA to R to PG to Y7, then to General Audience. So I am not going to go through the punishing adventure switched to something I have no idea what... I wanted to keep watching it, but my curiosity lost it's appeal... I am not gonna go through this promising, lost it's appeal movie series. They should've stuck to their original plan of making it ACTION FILLED, Thrilling CGI, Fiction filled fantasy story, with MA Rating instead of this floozy funny not funny story. I was saddened because I thought it was going to be a good story...but then it did not... so disappointed. Maybe if they dubbed it in English, it might be good but no way I am watching it subtitled in a very difficult twists and turn of a funny, not funny adventure, and no adventure fantasy, and no fantasy, fictional ... story.

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    • Trivia
      Adapted from the xianxia web novel "Once Upon a Time, There Was a Spirit Sword Mountain (Congqian Youzuo Lingjianshan)" by Bixia Guowang (a pen name meaning "His Majesty the King").
    • Connections
      Remake of Spirit Blade Mountain (2016)

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    • Release date
      • November 12, 2019 (China)
    • Country of origin
      • China
    • Official sites
      • iQIYI International
      • Netflix
    • Languages
      • Mandarin
      • Chinese
    • Also known as
      • Once Upon a Time There Was a Spirit Blade Mountain
    • Production companies
      • ABB Productions
      • Stellar Media
      • Tencent Pictures
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      • Dolby Digital
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      • 16:9 HD

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