Rescue From Hades 1982 Written by Lung-Kuang Chang and directed by Che-Fu Liang. A Taiwan fantasy drama.
Someone I know passed along a stack of Asian movies. Mostly they're horror and action. Some of them are rather obscure, some are missing subtitles like this film. I'm not sure what was going but I did find this synopsis from The Movie Data Base. It helps some.
Three generations of the Luo family fasted and chanted Buddha's name. However, Mr. Luo died young. Luo's mother complained and began to kill animals and eat meat. When Luo Bu grew up, her family property was wiped out by her uncle. Oppose and remarry someone else. After Luo's mother died, she went to hell. Luo Bu received God's instructions and followed Pratyekabuddha to practice, and his Dharma name was Mulian. However, because he could not bear the suffering of his mother in hell, he broke into the underworld to rescue his mother. After all the hardships, he finally felt the Buddha's will. Let Mother Luo be reincarnated.
It's a noisy colorful movie with some action. The sets for Hades are fun but low budget. They make up by packing them with plenty of costumed characters and bits of action. There's a bit of a sense of humor, I enjoyed that. Not as good as a Shaw Brothers horror film but watchable. I enjoyed it but I'm guessing I'm not going to rush to see it again.
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