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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. Set in 18th-century…
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*This publication was also writen in* SPANISH *and* PORTUGUESE . IMDb When we talk about the action genre in cinema, I think the early 2000s (especially) should always be used as a reference within the movie timeline because this was a period of massive success, which utilized different types of explosive scenes, without necessarily using nitroglycerin as the main ingredient in this traditional action recipe. One ti…More
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