Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon features Chow Yun-Fat as Li Mu Bai.
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is a 2000 martial arts action film directed by Ang Lee and co-starring Chow Yun-Fat, Michelle Yeoh and Zhang Ziyi. The film was released on July 8, 2000 in mainland China.
The movie tells the story of Li Mu Bai, a great warrior, who wants to quit the world and entrusts his confidante Yu Xiulian to bring his Green Destiny Sword to the capital city as a gift for the collection of Master Beller. Li Mu Bai's move to retreat from the jianghu is actually a move that causes more grievances in the jianghu.
"Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" boasts a number of awards, including four for Best Foreign Language Film at the 73rd Oscars, and is the first film in the history of Chinese-language cinema to win the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
Portrait of the character: Li Mubai, masculine and chivalrous, whose swordsmanship is a projection of the highest state of life. His swordplay is a projection of the highest state of life. He dances his sword in the air like a swimming dragon, mixing it without any stagnation. A wooden stick will make the sword of Yu Jiao Long incapable of doing anything, which is the manifestation of his lofty realm of life.
Actor profile: Chow Yun Fat (Chow Yun Fat), born on May 18, 1955 in Hong Kong, Lamma Island, originating from Kaiping, Guangdong, Chinese film and television actors, photographers, national actors.
Graduated from TVB artist training class in 1974, he starred in more than 20 dramas such as "Man in the Net", "Affection", "Shanghai Tang", etc. He started his career in 1976, and became one of the representatives of Hong Kong's "Violent Aesthetics" style of movies in the 80s with "Heroes", "Prisoners", "God of Gamblers", etc. In the 90s, he worked with Jackie Chan as one of the representatives of Hong Kong's "Violent Aesthetics" style of movies. In the 90's, he was known as "Double Chow Yat Shing" together with Jackie Chan and Stephen Chow, and went to Hollywood in 1995. He starred in a number of movies with different styles, such as "Anna and the King" and "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", and was twice the guest of honor at the Oscars. 1999, he left his handprints on the "Central Plaza" in Chinatown, Los Angeles, and was awarded the Special Achievement Award at the Deauville Asian Film Festival in France in 2000, and became one of America's most popular gunfighters for the image of the gunman portrayed in movies such as "Bloodbath" in 2004.
In 2004, he became one of the top three actors with the most DVD collections in the U.S. In 2005, he was honored by Hong Kong netizens as the No. 1 "Classic TV Drama Star"; in 2007, he was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by AZN TV's "Asian Excellence Awards Ceremony.
In addition, Chow Yun-Fat is also passionate about public welfare, in 2000 by the U.S. "Time" Weekly selected as one of the seven "Celebrity Heroes of the Earth", in 2003 was awarded the HKSAR Government Silver Bauhinia Star, in the same year, his struggle has been written into the first year of secondary school language textbooks published by Hong Kong Keith Publishing House, becoming the first to be included in the secondary school textbooks, and the first actor in the entertainment industry. In the same year, his struggle was written into the first grade language textbook of secondary school published by Hong Kong Keith Publishing House, making him the first person in the entertainment industry to be included in the secondary school textbook.