Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
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Director: Ang Lee
2000 / 120min / 35mm
Outside of Greater China and Chinese diaspora communities abroad, the pleasures of the wuxia had widely been unknown by more than a small coterie of Western connoisseurs. That all changed with Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, a kind of Greatest Hits reel of the genre that became a surprise sleeper hit, bolstered by lighter-than-air action sequences, Chow Yun-fat at his most dashingly heroic, a hefty dose of romantic longing, and a coterie of wild women warriors including Michelle Yeoh, King Hu star Cheng Pei-pei, and Zhang, the last-named a hot-tempered aristocrat’s daughter whose face-offs with Yeoh and Chow are among the greatest glories of martial arts cinema. The kind of crossover crowd-pleaser Chinese filmmakers have been trying to emulate ever since.
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