The Same Story That Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Is Based On Received A Movie 33 Years Earlier
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Movies that leaned heavily on ancient Chinese settings, swordplay, and elements of fantasy dominated the martial arts genre long beforeCrouching Tiger, Hidden Dragoncame around.The film revitalized this facet of the genre, but it was popular in other periods of its history as well, particularly in the mid to late 1960s, shortly before the “kung fu […]