Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2001)

UK THEATRICAL RELEASE: Jan 5th 2001 TOTAL FILM REVIEW
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Flying kung fu warriors, evil witches, reckless Mongol horsemen and cratefuls of exotic hand-to-hand weapons - while being the staples of traditional kung fu movies, they're not what you'd expect to see in an arthouse pic. Yet in the hands of genre-jumping director Ang Lee, the pretty-pretty world of fringe cinema crunches straight into hardcore chop-socky to produce a film that has, quite rightly, been labelled the first "martial arthouse" movie.

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