The Temple of the Red Bird

As he has just arrive at his new position as magistrate in a Northern province of Vietnam, Mandarin Tan faces right away a series of cruel and mysterious murders, which turn his interest towards a monastery where monks seem to be more fond of marital arts than of Buddhists scriptures. Accompanied by his friend Dinh, he will travel through the misty mountains, make his sense of judgement into prove to solve the mystery.