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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

2000 · Movie · 115 min

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Scores

  • IMDb7.9/10as of 2026-03-09
  • Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer97%as of 2022-11-29
  • Rotten Tomatoes average8.6/10as of 2021-10-05
  • Metacritic94/100as of 2025-06-16

What it is

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is a 2000 wuxia film directed by Ang Lee and written for the screen by Wang Hui-ling, James Schamus, and Tsai Kuo-jung. 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. It stars Chow Yun-fat, Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Ziyi, Chang Chen and Cheng Pei-pei in the leading roles.

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Genres
Romance / Fantasy / Action / Adventure / Drama
Original language
Chinese

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