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Film · 2000 · Adventure

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Directed by Ang Lee
2000
Hong Kong
★ 7.8 editorial score

It won four Academy Awards and remains the highest grossing foreign language film ever released in America: wire work so graceful that gravity stops being a consideration.

“Crouching Tiger was received indifferently in Asia but proved immensely popular in the west, winning four Oscars and becoming the highest-grossing foreign-language film in American history. No wonder: you could lose the subtitles and still be transfixed by the film's visual delights. The scenery, taking in Qing-dynasty Beijing, the ghost city of Xinjiang and other extraordinary Chinese locations, is magnificent.”
— Killian Fox · The Guardian
Setting
Beijing
Time
2000Depicts 1700s
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