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*Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon* is a 2000 martial arts and action film directed by Ang Lee. The screenplay was written by James Schamus, Wang Hui-ling, and Wang Dulu, with music composed by Tan Dun. The cast includes Chow Yun-fat, Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Ziyi, and Chang Chen. Produced by William Kong and Ang Lee, the film was released by Columbia Pictures and TriStar Pictures. It is set in Beijing during the Qing dynasty and was produced in the United States, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and China.
The film has a runtime of 115 or 120 minutes, depending on the source, and was originally in Chinese. It received the Hong Kong Film Award for Best Film, the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film, the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, and the Saturn Award for Best Action or Adventure Film. It was also nominated for Academy Awards for Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing, and Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay. The film has a budget of $17,000,000 and a revenue of $213,978,518.
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Film · TMDB
7.4Two warriors in pursuit of a stolen sword and a notorious fugitive are led to an impetuous, physically-skilled, teenage nobleman's daughter, who is at a crossroads in her life.
Cast
- Chow Yun-Fat as Li Mu Bai
- Michelle Yeoh as Yu Shu Lien
- Zhang Ziyi as Jen
- Chang Chen as Lo
- Lung Sihung as Sir Te
- Cheng Pei-Pei as Jade Fox
Themes
- martial arts
- kung fu
- based on novel or book
- flying
- taskmaster
- sword
- tiger
- villainess
- mountain
- comb
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- drama film
- Country of origin
- China
- Original language
- Mandarin
- Based on
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
- Director
- Ang Lee
- Screenwriter
- Wang Dulu
- Cast member
- Sihung Lung
- Composer
- Tan Dun
- Producer
- Ang Lee
- Production company
- TriStar Pictures
- Cinematographer
- Peter Pau
- Narrative location
- Qing dynasty
- Duration
- 115
- FilmAffinity ID
- 488497
- Distribution format
- video on demand
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- publication date
- 2001-06-06
- film editor
- Tim Squyres
- title
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
- executive producer
- David Linde
- Commons category
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
- box office
- 213500000
- set in period
- 18th century
- costume designer
- Timmy Yip
- review score
- 7.9/10
- capital cost
- 15000000
- after a work by
- Wang Dulu
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Encyclopedic overview
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is a 2000 wuxia martial arts film directed by Ang Lee and written for the screen by Wang Hui-ling, James Schamus, and Tsai Kuo-jung. The film stars Chow Yun-fat, Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Ziyi, and Chang Chen. It is based on the Chinese novel of the same name, serialized between 1941 and 1942 by Wang Dulu, the fourth part of his Crane-Iron Series. Set in 18th-century Imperial China, the plot follows two master warriors, Li Mu Bai (Chow) and Yu Shu Lien (Yeoh), who are faced with their greatest challenge when the treasured Green Destiny sword is stolen by the mysterious thief Jen Yu (Zhang).
A multinational venture, the film was made with a budget of US$17 million, and was produced by Edko Films and Zoom Hunt Productions in collaboration with China Film Co-productions Corporation and Asian Union Film & Entertainment for Columbia Pictures Film Production Asia in association with Good Machine International. The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on 18 May 2000, and was theatrically released in the United States on 8 December. With dialogue in Standard Chinese, subtitled for various markets, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon became a surprise international success, grossing $213.5 million worldwide. It grossed US$128 million in the United States, becoming the highest-grossing foreign produced film in American history. The film was the first non-English language film to break the $100 million mark in the United States.
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