![]() ![]() Like an Eastern Thin-Man couple, they help the search for an ancient sword and the defeat of Jade Fox (Cheng Pei Pei), an accomplished warrior who killed Mu Bai’s mentor. Although they have, in typical Asian secrecy, not professed their love to each other, everyone else knows they are in love. In other words, it has everything cinema can offer.Īnd Michelle Yeoh, coming off her nomination for best actress in Everything Everywhere All at Once, is an anchor as Shu Lien a famed warrior, and also Chow Yun Fat as Mu Bai, a renowned swordsman and the co-sage with Shu. Not just because it won the four Oscars including best picture is it one of cinema’s great romances, but because with all the magic it presents, love is a real and sometimes agonizing romanticism. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is a world apart from us: mysticism, leaping in single bounds, binding tradition, and pure love. ![]() That is the stuff of Asian Romance: lyrical, loving, sacrificial. Because of your love, I will never be a lonely spirit.” Li Mu Bai (Chun Yow Fat) ![]() I would rather be a ghost, drifting by your side as a condemned soul, than enter heaven without you. I want to tell you with my last breath that I have always loved you. ![]()
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