#146 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Genre: martial arts wuxia

Director: Ang Lee

Writer: Wang Hui-Ling, James Schamus and Tsai Kuo Jung

Cast: Chow Yun-fat, Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Ziyi and Chang Chen

Music by: Tan Dun

Duration: 120 minutes

Wikipedia: wiki about the movie

What is it about this film that’s pulling in ordinarily subtitle-phobic U.S. audiences and eliciting cheers and applause from jaded American critics and festival audiences, yet leaves the kung-fu fans of the East cold? Is this a good martial-arts movie, or not?

The answer to that last question, at least, is that Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is much more than a good martial-arts movie, as Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey is much more than a good science-fiction movie. Crouching Tiger is the martial arts movie transfigured, remade into a thing of haunting beauty, poetic grace, and astonishing power...

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