| Field | Details |
|---|---|
| Movie Name | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) |
| Director | Ang Lee |
| Writer | Hui-Ling Wang, James Schamus, Kuo Jung Tsai, based on the novel by Du Lu Wang |
| Lead Actor | Chow Yun-Fat |
| Cast | Chow Yun-Fat, Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Ziyi, Chang Chen, Cheng Pei-Pei |
| Genre | Action, Adventure, Fantasy |
| Release Date | December 8, 2000 (United States) |
| Duration | 2h |
| Budget | $17 million |
| Language | Mandarin |
| IMDb Rating | 7.9/10 |
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CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON is also a romance but with an immense “Wow!” factor. This return to his Taiwanese roots by director Ang Lee (The Ice Storm) is a martial arts swashbuckler designed to seduce audiences of all ages with its miraculous mano a mano combats (bouncing on treetop branches, skittering over roof tops like flying squirrels) and exotic Chinese locales. This mythic adventure has a Star Wars in Asia sort of feeling.
Lee won a Golden Globe Award for his direction of this action film in which three of the five major characters are women with in your face athletic fighting capability. There are also three or four major love stories, two with poetic, heart cracking, transcendent endings, all set to subtle, classical Chinese music.
The generic plot line could apply as well to westerns or cop movies. Aging warrior hero Li Mu Bai (Chow Yun-fat) is retiring his legendary 400 year old sword Green Destiny (“too many have died”) to meditate and perhaps woo his longtime co warrior Shu Lien (Michelle Yeoh of James Bond memory). Their love is shy and understated but the stuff of legends.
Complicating their plans are Jade Fox, a stealthy female villain, and her pupil Jen, a diminutive beauty and spoiled politician’s daughter who is one heck of a fighter. This rebellious prodigy, who dreams of the life of a warrior instead of wife in an arranged marriage, steals Li’s sword. Complicating her plans is a Fairbanks type desert bandit, the charismatic Lo, who kidnaps and fights Jen endlessly until they fall memorably in love.
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