Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
2000
Starring: Chang Chen, Chow Yun-Fat, Michelle Yeoh
This Ang Lee film is scripted in Cantonese and Mandarin and set in the China of the early nineteenth century, although we could be watching a fable from any time in the last millennium, or from no time at all. Yu Shu Lien (Michelle Yeoh), is given a sword by Li Mu Bai (Chow Yun Fat), for safekeeping.