Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 4K UHD + BD

If you have Last Samuri with Tom Cruise, you should add CTHD to your collection. Michelle is awesome

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is a great story with amazing themes and practical effects straight out of the early 2000's. Visually the 4k upgrade is stunning, helps with immersion, though it helps if you're in a dark room to really bring out the color, which is the only slight downside I can think of. Overall would recommend

In 2000 director Ang Lee blew Western minds with his sweeping action romance Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. There were four storylines in the film running parallel to each other. They involved love, responsibility, justice, youth, and gender roles.First is the relationship between Li Mu Bai (Chow Yun Fat) and Yu Shu Lien (Michelle Yeoh). The two have always liked each other but are to shy and formal to do anything about it. In all their interactions their love for each other is always just in the background. As their mutual friend tells Shu Lien when it comes to emotions heroes can be idiots. Second, Yu Jen (Zhang Ziyi) who is a governor’s daughter wants to escape the restraints of her position and be a woman hero. She has been taught martial arts by the Jade Fox (Cheng Pei Pei) who is a criminal. Jen is both rebellious and impetuous leading her to steal Mu Bai’s famous sword. She is actually the center of the entire flick as her actions affect all the other major character. The Jade Fox also happens to be the person that killed Mu Bai’s master so he is after her as well. The last story is a love affair between Jen and a bandit she meets named Lo (Chang Chen).Each one of these storylines represents a dilemma for the characters. Will Mu Bai and Shu Lien be honest about their emotions for each other? Will Jen learn to be disciplined and be a hero or turn out to be a criminal like Jade Fox? Will Mu Bai capture Jade Fox? Will Jen allow herself to be with Lo or will her desires get the best of her? They also relate to the themes. Mu Bai feels his responsibilities cannot allow him to follow his heart. His duty involves dispensing justice, which drives him to find Jade Fox. Jen and Lo represent the youthful rebelliousness. Finally, Jade Fox and Jen represent women trying to break out of their roles. Jade Fox for instance went to the famous Wudan school of martial arts but the master wouldn’t teach her because she was a woman. That’s why she ended up killing him. Part of the reason why Ju wants adventure is to not only escape her arranged marriage, but to prove her skills versus men.On top of all that Crouching Tiger has some amazing action sequences. Ang Lee employed the famous Hong King wire style in his fight scenes which captivated Western audiences. For example in the first one, Jen steals Mu Bai’s sword and can be seen jumping along roofs and flying up walls. There are other great scenes like that such as when Mu Bai is chasing Jen through a forest and the two jump from tree top to tree top.Altogether there was a reason why Crouching Tiger received so many accolades when it was released. It is a beautifully made picture with great action and endearing stories.C

This review is for the 4k Blu-ray, not the movie.Detail is lost in brightly lit scenes where the film grain will stand out. Dark sequences lose detail in the shadows. Somewhere in the middle and you’ll find yummy detail-like individual fibers in cloth detail. It’s weird, because some of the desert sequences look great in 4K.The audio is a the real bummer tho. It’s a lazily done Dolby Atmos Mandarin track. Sound effects only use the front 3 speakers, while music is played on all including the surrounds. It’s like the sound designers only did the bare minimum to get the job done and called it a day.I like having the 4K UHD Blu-ray although I’m not impressed. I only own the DVD and recently upgraded my home theater to 4K and Atmos. Having this particular movie in my library was a must. Also since I bought it used here on Amazon, I don’t feel bad for spending the extra few dollars on the 4K disc.

Crouching Tiger is a very good film with a lot going for it. The recreation of mid-evil China, the cinematography, the gorgeous fight choreograpy, a sweeping story and its focus on the role of women in society and the cultural expectations that are placed on them all add up to a fine film. But above all else it is the film's acting that makes it stand apart from the crowd, particularly the performances of its two leading ladies.Michelle Yeoh is amazing in this movie. Loyal and hard edged, Yeoh's character is the ultimate example of internal conflict, torn between a friendship and the truth, and between a deep respect and an even deeper love. There are several scenes where the subleties of her facial expressions say more than most actors manage in their entire careers with actual dialogue.As good as Yeoh is, its newcommer (at the time this film was made) Zhang Ziyi that steals the show. Never mind that a good argument could be made for her as the most beautiful actress alive today, Ziyi manages to portray Jen as a complex duality of fragility and power, of nobleman's daughter and thief. At times bratty and spoiled, at other times indigent, self-assured and cocky, and at all times someone who will, in the end, do what she pleases to do, cultural expectations, protocol, laws and even common decency be damned. Jen wants the world, but she'll only accept it on her own terms.Even though the DVD defaults to english, I recommend watching the film first in its native Mandarin with the english subtitles turned on, as the film was presented during its theatrical release. Too much of the subleties of these great performances are lost when the english audio is dubbed in. At the same time, it is worth watching later with the english audio, as the spoken english words are more elaborate and convey more than the much briefer subtitles can.I would also like to briefly comment on the use of wirework in the movie and the widespread criticism it has received for making the movie unrealistic.First, please realise that the movie is meant as a fairy tale / fantasy. It was not intended to be fully realistic. If you realise this, and allow yourself to enjoy the movie, you will. Just as we allow ourselves to enjoy films like Kill Bill, Rambo, and James Bond, even though they too have fight scenes that are completely unrealistic and would in reality leave the participants chalk full of bullet holes or beaten to bloody pulps.Second, there is something of a point as to why the characters can fly. Yeoh hits the nail on the head in the accompanying documentary on the DVD when she points out that the flying is meant to be symbolic of the character's relative freedom from social obligation. Yeoh's character, who runs a business and cannot speak her love for Li Mu Bai due to social standing, is also the least adept flyer of the major characters and often struggles to do so, weighed down by her obligations. Jen certainly has social expectations placed upon her, but has escaped most of them through her secret life. She is able to take flight far more easily than Yeoh's character. Finally, Li Mu Bai is a warrior who is at peace with who he is - he flies most effortlessly of all three of them.

First off, its not the film. I love this film, and wanted to upgrade from my dvd version. The the quality of the 4K transfer is so bad, its unwatchable. Where there are areas of solid colour, especially backgrounds slightly out of focus like a wall, there is so much grain or noise on the image, and the noise actually slightly changes colour, so appears to shimmer. This even happen on characters faces, it is so bad. The only saving grace is the blue ray version, which doesn't suffer this to any dramatic effect and is very much watchable. Don't buy the 4k version, stick to the bluray!

Película se ve genial en 4k, algunos indican problemas en la calidad de pantalla, la verdad, ningún problema, incluso en escenas obscuras, se ve muy claro y nítido. De más está decir de la película, que es maravillosa.Trae Bluray y 4k, idioma y subtítulos en español latino, excelente

I bought that movie years ago. My son told me that I would love it. Even if I was not a fan of martial art movies and Chinese or Japanese way to show those kinds of supernatural abilities of human beings, I decided to give a try. After all, my son knows pretty well my taste in movies and as usually, when he recommend something, I was miles from being disappointed.The story lines, the landscapes, the costumes and the acting caught so much my attention that I even didn't mind or even forgot about those humans standing straight on tiny branches on top of trees. I was nothing else than delighted. I kept that movie in y collection and still watch it every once in a while even after those years. That movie was not the one that opened me to Asian and martial art movies, but it was certainly the one that brooked the ice and prevent me to miss the beautiful story of Forbidden Kingdom (Jacky Chan and Jet Li) bought few weeks ago and which was almost immediately followed by the stunning Red Cliff, directed by John Woo as well.If you like the genre and did not see this one yet, well I'm telling you, you are missing something.

Reçu et testé. Un réel plaisir que de redécouvrir ce chef d’œuvre avec cette qualité. Testé uniquement en blu-ray et pas en ultra HD pour le moment (pas de lecteur encore) mais la qualité est là. C’est beau, c’est propre et ça fait plaisir. J’avais peur concernant la VF (oui il y’a des films que je préfère regarder en VF et celui-ci en fait partie) et c’est bien celle de la version DVD que je vais ranger précieusement. Le mixage sonore est de bonne qualité également et la musique ne parlons pas. Livraison un peu longue mais ça vaut le coup. Si vous aimez ce film, n’hésitez pas à acheter cette version qui le sublime vraiment.

Pas facile à trouver en france, alors cet import est un bon plan.Il y a audio mandarin ou anglais avec les sous-titres français, mais aussi l'audio français Dolby True HD 5.1La qualité d'image et de son est parfaite, 1080p format 2.40:1, avec de belles couleurs et une bonne luminosité (beaucoup de scènes de nuit).