Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is a 2000 wuxia film.

Made on a mere US $ 17 million budget, with dialogue in Mandarin, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon became a surprise international success, grossing $ 213. 5 million.

The name " Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon " is a literal translation of the Chinese proverb " 卧虎藏龍 " which refers to the mysteries ( or hidden talents, undiscovered talents ) that lie beneath the surface of an otherwise normal-looking individual.

Although its Academy Award was presented to Taiwan, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was in fact an international co-production between companies in four regions: the Chinese company China Film Co-Production Corporation ; the American companies Columbia Pictures Film Production Asia, Sony Pictures Classics and Good Machine ; the Hong Kong company EDKO Film ; and the Taiwanese Zoom Hunt International Productions Company, Ltd ; as well as the unspecified United China Vision, and Asia Union Film & Entertainment Ltd., created solely for this film.

Originally written as a novel series by Wang Du Lu starting in the late 1930s, the film is adapted from the storyline of the fourth book in the series, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

It was later compiled into a DVD, New Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, for the West in 2004.

: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ( 2000 )

Often, genuine internal practices are highly exaggerated to the point of making them seem miraculous, as in Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon or Tai Chi Master.

* Kim, L. S. " Making women warriors: a transnational reading of Asian female action heroes in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

It remains one of the most acclaimed Chinese language films ever made, appearing at number 11 in a 2005 centennial list by the Hong Kong Film Awards, immediately below Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

# REDIRECT Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Early in 2002 Smith ( who was preparing for his first Hollywood role in the Bruce Willis action film Tears of the Sun ) went to China to shoot the US-Chinese martial arts film Warriors of Virtue 2, which would allow him to work with the stuntman from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

* Tim Squyres ( born 1959 ), film editor of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Hulk, and Syriana, among others.

In 2000, he was heard on the soundtrack of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and in 2003 on that of Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World.

A sampling of his versatility in addition to numerous recordings of the standard classical repertoire would include his recordings of Baroque pieces using period instruments ; American bluegrass music ; traditional Chinese melodies including the soundtrack to the film Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon ; the tangos of Argentinian composer Ástor Piazzolla ; an eclectic and unusual collaboration with Bobby McFerrin ( where Ma admitted to being terrified of the improvisation McFerrin pushed him toward ); as well as the music of modern minimalist Philip Glass in such works as the 2002 piece Naqoyqatsi.

** Steven Epstein ( producer ), Richard King, Lu Xiao Xing & Xu Gou Qin ( engineers ) & Tan Dun ( producer & composer ) for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Cheng Pei Pei in particular is relatively well known for her starring role in King Hu's Come Drink With Me, and more recently in Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon as Jade Fox.

* In the 2000 movie Crouching Tiger and Hidden Dragon, the police inspector Tsai was duelling with Jade Fox using a pair of deer horn knives, a very typical weapon of the Bagua Zhang system.

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ( 2000 ) is a kung-fu film that was heavily reliant on wire stunts.

There were also complaints that the fight scenes were not as well choreographed or directed as those in similar movies such as The Matrix and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and also that the alternating comedic and action scenes were jarring.

Hong Kong based fight choreographer Yuen Woo-ping is famed for his work on Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and the Matrix trilogy, in which the often unrealistic fighting techniques are complemented by directorial techniques such as bullet time.

" A Love Before Time " was the end-credit song from the movie Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

** Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ( Wo hu cang long ) ( 2000 ): Best Picture, Cinematography, Music Score, and Production Design

In the Ang Lee film, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, he played Lo " Dark Cloud " / Luo Xiao Hu, the lover of Zhang Ziyi's character, Jen.

* Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ( 2000 )-Lo ' Dark Cloud ' / Luo Xiao Hu

His reputation as an intelligent and learned scholar grew even while he was living in relative seclusion, earning him the nickname " Wolong " (; literally: " Crouching Dragon ").

Crouching Dragon and Young Phoenix are the only ones in this region.

Other notable works are the Hipnus, Ariadne, and a sizeable group of Hellenistic Venuses of various types: Crouching Venus, Venus with the Dolphin, The Venus of Madrid, Venus with an Apple, and Venus with a Cockle Shell.

Crouching Aphrodite, LouvreTo crouch means " to bend down ; to stoop low ; to lie close to the ground with legs bent, as an animal when waiting for prey or in fear.

on Triple J, with Roy styled as " Crouching Tiger " and H. G.

* Finally, Marcel Aymé deserves a sprecial mention for his humorous and fantastic universe that combines wit and social satire with fantasy, in works such as Le Passe-Muraille Walker Through The Walls ( 1943 ) about an obscure clerk who acquires the power to walk through solid objects and his animal fables, Les contes du chat perché Tales of the Crouching Cat ( 1931 ).

Notable films included Gladiator, which received 12 nominations and 5 awards, and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, which received 10 nominations and 4 awards, as well as Traffic & Erin Brockovich, which both had 5 nominations, with Traffic winning 4 of them.

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon has the record for the most nominations for a foreign language film with 10 nominations and tied with Fanny and Alexander with most wins with 4.

In this remodel, there are major changes in the appearance of the vehicle Honda called " Crouching form ", which consisted of a low and wide design that contributed to lighter vehicle weight ( basic grade 680 kg ) combined with improvements in driving performance.

Surat Al-Jathiya () ( Crouching ) is the 45th sura of the Qur ' an with 37 ayat.

Koumei is also shown with a silver dragon, referred to as the Crouching Dragon.

File: Hagiya Katsuhira-Fuchi with Crouching Lions-Walters 5112052. jpg | Fuchi with crouching lions.

( The film had even been described by fans as " Dangerous Liaisons meets Enter the Dragon ", while Universal Pictures marketed the film as " The Matrix meets Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

Hong Kong stars and other personnel have been involved in international wuxia successes like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ( Taiwan, 2000 ) and Hero ( China, 2002 ).

At the start of " The Hidden Tiger " Peel is redecorating her apartment ( wearing a jumpsuit and drinking champagne ); she peels off a strip of wallpaper, revealing the words " Mrs Peel " painted on the wall beneath.

" The Hidden Tiger " returns to the partially redecorated apartment where Steed begins painting a love heart and arrow and the initials of two people on the wall, but paints over the initials when Peel sees his graffito

Overall, there ’ s a sense of sheer " movieness " to The Hidden Fortress that places it plainly in the ranks of such grand adventure entertainments as Gunga Din, The Thief of Baghdad, and Fritz Lang's celebrated diptych The Tiger of Eschnapur and The Hindu Tomb.