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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Widescreen)
- Starring: Chow Yun-Fat, Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Ziyi
- Director: Ang Lee
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Taiwanese filmmaker Ang Lee took a break from making Western period dramas to fashion this wild and woolly martial arts spectacular featuring special effects and action sequences courtesy of the choreographer of The Matrix (1999), Yuen Woo Ping. In the early 19th century, martial arts master Li Mu Bai (Chow Yun-Fat) is about to retire and enter a life of meditation, though he quietly longs to avenge the death of his master, who was killed by Jade Fox (Cheng Pei-pei). He gives his sword, a fabled 400-year-old weapon known as Green Destiny, to his friend, fellow martial arts wizard and secret love Yu Shu Lien (Michelle Yeoh), so that she may deliver it to Sir Te (Sihung Lung). Upon arrival in Peking, Yu happens upon Jen (Zhang Ziyi), a vivacious, willful politician's daughter. That night, a mysterious masked thief swipes Green Destiny, with Yu in hot pursuit -- resulting in the first of several martial arts action set pieces during the film. Li arrives in Beijing and eventually discovers that Jen is not only the masked thief but is also in cahoots with the evil Jade. In spite of this, Li sees great talent in Jen as a fighter and offers to school her in the finer points of martial arts and selflessness, an offer that Jen promptly rebukes. This film was first screened to much acclaim at the 2000 Cannes, Toronto, and New York film festivals and became a favorite when Academy Awards nominations were announced in 2001: Tiger snagged ten nods and later secured four wins for Best Cinematography, Score, Art Direction, and Foreign Language Film. Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide
Features
- Genre: Action/Adventure
- Category: Martial Arts, Period Film, Romantic Adventure
- Theme: Heroic Mission, Opposites Attract, Star-Crossed Lovers
- Release Date: June 05, 2001
- Rating: PG-13 (Parents Strongly Cautioned)Rating Opens in New Window - Questionable for Children, Suitable for Teens, Violence
- Studio: Columbia TriStar
- Lead Actors: Chow Yun-Fat, Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Ziyi, Chang Chen, Sihung Lung
- Supporting Actors: Cheng Pei-Pei
- Director: Ang Lee
- Picture Format: Widescreen
- Run Time: 2 hr
- Language: English, French, Mandarin Chinese
- Subtitle Language: English, French
- Format: DVD
Awards
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Awards: Academy Awards (4), Golden Globe Awards (1)
Winner: Golden Globe Awards Best Director 2000, Ang Lee
Nominations: Academy Awards (6), Golden Globe Awards (1)
Nominee: Academy Awards Best Picture 2000, Ang Lee, Bill Kong, Hsu Li-kong
Nominee: Academy Awards Best Director 2000, Ang Lee
Additional Information
- DPCI: 058-17-0182
- ASIN: B002FOEGHW
- Catalog #: 11298403
- Item can not be gift wrapped.
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- Estimated Ship Weight: 0.25 pound.
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Billed as Sense and Sensibility with kung fu, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is one of the wildest and most entertaining films to come down the pike in a long, long time. Ang Lee manages to spin stunning martial arts set pieces around a compelling and believable coming-of-age story. From Seven Samurai to the The Terminator, the key to a really good action movie is not the size of the gun or the variety of objects exploded, but the depth of characters; in Crouching Tiger, the players are given the same fine shading that Lee lent to The Ice Storm and other intimate character pieces. International superstars Chow Yun-Fat and Michelle Yeoh give perhaps the best performances of their careers as a couple bonded by the perils of war and an intense, yet unfulfilled, love. Despite the magnitude of their star power, Chow and Yeoh are all but upstaged by Zhang Ziyi as the impetuous Jen Yu. Gorgeous, graceful, and possessing a near-lethal high kick, she dominates the film. In one show-stopping sequence, this lithe young lass cleans the floor with a room full of thick-necked guys toting blunt weapons. In another she almost takes out a band of Mongol marauders in a wild Gobi Desert melee. There she meets and eventually falls in love with bandit king Lo (Chang Chen). Lee deftly structures much of the film like a Shakespearean romantic comedy -- the fiery passion of Jen and Lo are contrasted with the quieter, deeper love of Li and Shu Lien. The fervid romance of the young couple makes the sense of loss and repression in the older duo all the more poignant. The action is startlingly fresh: Drawn from conventions in popular Chinese Wuxia kung fu literature, the heroes are such masters of martial arts that they literally, and quite believably, fly. The first confrontation between Yeoh and Zhang -- a dizzying chase over the tiled roofs of a rich man's estate, in which the two adversaries literally bounce off the walls and sail over buildings -- simply has to be seen to be believed. Romantic, haunting, and sublimely entertaining, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon should not be missed. Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide
