Synopsis
Two 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.
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Cast
- Michelle YeohYu Shu Lien
- Chow Yun-fatLi Mu Bai
- Zhang ZiyiJen
- Chang ChenLo
- Sihung LungSir Te
- Cheng Pei-peiJade Fox
- Li FazengGovernor Yu
- Gao Xi'anBo
- Hai YanMadame Yu
- Wang DemingTsai
Recommendations
- 100
New York Daily News
Handsome, passionate and fun. It's everything we go to the movies for. - 100
USA Today
This is a great movie, but it needs a sales job because it's in Mandarin. - 100
New York Post
You have never seen a movie like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon because there has never been a movie like it. - 100
Rolling Stone
Ang Lee, a world-class director working at the top of his elegant form, has done something thrilling. For all the leaping action, it's the film's spirit that soars. - 100
Baltimore Sun
Rarely has combat been portrayed as beautifully as in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Taiwanese director Ang Lee's thoughtful meditation on menace, mortality and the martial arts. - 90
Variety
Brilliance of the action and effects are supplemented by a consistently superior and resourceful score by Tan Dun. - 90
The New York Times
The picture is more fun than it has a right to be. - 90
Slate
My first viewing left me dazzled but slightly confused; a second deeply impressed; a third rhapsodic. I wish I hadn't needed to rediagram it in my head to turn it into the masterpiece it so obviously wants to be.
