Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
International theatrical release poster
Traditional Chinese臥虎藏龍
Simplified Chinese卧虎藏龙
Hanyu PinyinWòhǔ Cánglóng
Directed byAng Lee
Screenplay by
Based onCrouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
by Wang Dulu
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyPeter Pau
Edited byTim Squyres
Music byTan Dun
Production
companies
Distributed by
Release dates
  • 18 May 2000 (2000-05-18) (Cannes)
  • 7 July 2000 (2000-07-07) (Taiwan)
  • 8 July 2000 (2000-07-08) (China)
  • 13 July 2000 (2000-07-13) (Hong Kong)
  • 8 December 2000 (2000-12-08) (United States)
Running time
120 minutes[1][2]
Countries
  • China
  • Taiwan
  • Hong Kong
  • United States[1]
LanguageMandarin[1][2]
BudgetUS$17 million[3]
Box officeUS$214 million[3]
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Traditional Chinese臥虎藏龍
Simplified Chinese卧虎藏龙

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon[4] is a 2000 wuxia martial arts action-adventure 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 pentalogy.[5]

A multinational venture, the film was made on a US$17 million budget, 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 Mandarin-language film in American history.[6] The film was the first foreign-language film to break the $100 million mark in the United States.[7][8]

The film was praised by critics for its story, direction, cinematography, and martial arts sequences. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon won over 40 awards and was nominated for 10 Academy Awards in 2001, including Best Picture, and won Best Foreign Language Film, Best Art Direction, Best Original Score, and Best Cinematography,[3] receiving the most nominations ever for a non-English-language film at the time, until 2018's Roma tied this record. The film also won four BAFTAs and two Golden Globe Awards, each of them for Best Foreign Film. For retrospective years, Crouching Tiger is often cited as one of the finest wuxia films ever made[9][10] and has been widely regarded as one of the greatest films of the 21st century.[11][12][13]

  1. ^ a b c "Catalog – Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon". American Film Institute. Retrieved 19 September 2022. Duration (in mins): 120/Countries: China, Taiwan, Hong Kong S.A.R., United States/Language: Mandarin
  2. ^ a b "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon". British Board of Film Classification. Retrieved 31 January 2024. Approx. running minutes: 120m/Language: Mandarin
  3. ^ a b c "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Archived from the original on 16 May 2010. Retrieved 20 March 2023.
  4. ^ simplified Chinese: 卧虎藏龙; traditional Chinese: 臥虎藏龍; pinyin: Wòhǔ Cánglóng
  5. ^ 徐斯年 (2006). "序言 [Preface]". In 王芹 (ed.). 卧虎藏龍. 长江文艺出版社.
  6. ^ "Foreign Language Movies at the Box Office". Box Office Mojo. Archived from the original on 24 July 2010. Retrieved 7 April 2020.
  7. ^ "First foreign language film to earn over $100 million in the USA". Guinness World Records. Archived from the original on 11 November 2023. Retrieved 11 November 2023.
  8. ^ Child, Ben (10 September 2015). "Will China's growing box office dominance change Hollywood for ever?". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 11 November 2023. Retrieved 11 November 2023.
  9. ^ Landler, Mark (2 July 2001). "It's Raining Tigers and Dragons; Asian Filmmakers Rush to Repeat an Oscar Winner's Success". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 20 May 2017. Retrieved 11 April 2017.
  10. ^ "Gem of the (Pacific) Ocean | Film Journal International". www.filmjournal.com. Archived from the original on 4 April 2017. Retrieved 11 April 2017.
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