Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is a wuxia ('martial arts and chivalry') film released in 2000. It is a China-Hong Kong-Taiwan-USA co-production. It was directed by Ang Lee and features an international Chinese ethnic cast of Chow Yun-Fat, Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Ziyi and Chang Chen. It was choreographed by Yuen Wo Ping and based on the fourth novel in a pentalogy, known in China as the Crane-Iron Pentalogy, by Wang Dulu.