Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon | Michelle Yeoh and Zhang Ziyi iconic fight scene 

One of the best fight scenes in movie history. Beautifully shot and choreographed down the finest detail. I always find it amazing that foreign films can do such a great job of showcasing strong (yet feminine) women while Hollywood continues to be so clumsy and hamfisted with their attempts.

Can we appreciate that they get sweaty, tired, and hair is put up, instead of perfect flowing locks, make up, and boundless energy

Now watching this scene years later from a cinemtography point of view, it is ridiculously outstanding.

I'd say narratively, we root for Michelle Yeoh's character here. She effectively fought off the Wuxia equivalent of a lightsaber with only her skills, ordinary weapons, and managed to defeated the wielder.

Notice when Michelle pauses and looks at her rod weapon, she doesn't pant, then switch over zhang ziyi and she is breathing heavily. Shows how Michelle's character is very seasoned and trained well, while ziyi is less so and still inexperienced. Love this detail of the scene

Just love Michelle Yeoh. Been watching her in action movies since she was young. Amazing actress.

The perfect scene to illustrate the phrase “talent without training is nothing”. Discipline, dedication and skills earned through hard work will always beat talent. And bravo to these two ladies for such amazing skill. Truly beautiful work worthy of every bit of praise it’s gotten since this movies release.

One of the best fighting scene in cinema history.

Damn Zhang Ziyi became a house hold name bec of this movie(at least in our country). One of the best choreographed fight scenes and cinematography.

I forgot how young Michelle Yeoh was in this, almost didn't regonize her. Loved her in shang chi

Probably one of the best fight scenes in cinema. There's emotion and drama in every frame.

Michelle Yeoh has always been my favorite and was a legend by by 2000, but Zhang Ziyi had no kung fu experience before this, she had a dance background and did amazing job.

One of the most mesmerizing movies I have ever seen. A big thank you to all those who brought it to fruition and lift it to screen.

This is a far cry from their Sayuri-Mameha relationship in Memoirs Of A Geisha, and I applaud both actresses for giving such a contrasting performance.

I like how it’s the better weapon vs the better fighter

Should we praise Zhang ziyi for sticking to one weapon or Michelle Yeoh for her talent in using different weapons? They are both masters

Can we appreciate how badass Michelle Yeoh is, doing this scene close up, but then they use a stunt double during the wide shots, because she tore her ACL

The best. This sword fight between Michelle Yeoh and Zhang Ziyi made Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon a classic.

I absolutely love that scene! I’ve watched it so many times, and will take any opportunity to watch it again.

God damn, the Empress Georgiou has no chill

The choreography is top notched, Chinese action films are really great.

I find this movie really difficult to watch, not because of amazing scenes like this and others, but the real yet sad message behind the story. I love this movie in a bittersweet way.

I love how Michelle Yeoh warms up the spear, the move is expert, almost like a flare, but just a humble necessity for the weapon probably. The fight feels so private, like we're peeping in on their duel, when I saw it the first time I was wrapped up in the illusion and wondered "how did they [get permission to] film this?"

Literally one of the best fighting scenes ever!🔥🔥🔥

I love this fight scene, but I haven't seen the movie in so long, and all the clips I find online end after Ziyi's character cuts Yeoh's sword. So seeing her say "ONLY THE SWORD WILL DECIDE THAT" and then flying away like her people need her has me reeling.

Michelle Yeao has always been my favorite Asian star. Even in crazy rich Asians. As we get older a new wave is taking over, Gemma Chan seems to be the one. But they will never replace Michelle Yeao.

Michelle Yeoh is a great actress. Love her in everything she does.

The young lady has a physique and movements from a parallel universe, sooo good.

I just realized (after over 20 years) the power of the sword of destiny has a lot to do with the experience of the person wielding it. You see it break basically all the weapons that it stood against in this scene and then later how Li Mu Bai uses it in the Jade Fox ambush.

4:26 Michelle Yeoh does the equivalent of sacrificing her queen in chess to secure a checkmate.

I loved this entire movie.

One of the best fight scenes EVER!!!!!!!! Michelle Yeoh is a bad-ass woman. This movie was made in 2000. Twenty-one years later, Michelle Yeoh is in the current movie, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, and she looks like she never aged. And she is just a good in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.

I always enjoyed seen Zhang Ziyi in movies. She’s a female perfection. That face, eyes, hair, body, feet and toes always made me stop breathing. Even now in her 40’s she’s still breathtaking.

I stun doubles are awesome. You could barely tell they had doubles from the top view camera shots.

Everyone talks about Michelle Yeoh, but my God, I had no idea how skilled Zhang Ziyi was! My only frames of reference were Godzilla: KOTM and Rush Hour 2, and she doesn’t do jack SHIT in those movies compared to this!

One of the best fight scenes in a Kung Fu movie ever!

3:25 “Honor is not in the weapon, but in the man.” Donnie Yen, Highlander: Endgame

3:35 “Go ahead. Go pick anything.” “Okay.” *Pulls out a Glock*

The way she just flies away always makes me laugh 😂

It was implied that Shu Lien was holding back during this fight... As observed, there were many cases where Shu Lien locked Yu, but she held back, up until the end where she still tried to reason with Yu. ...after this scene where Ma said to Shu Lien, 'crazy girl like that, you should've killed her'.. she just replied, 'I didn't have the heart'.

"Only the sword will determine that" proceeds to casually fly away...

The best combat between women that I've seen in a movie since Beatrix/Elle in Kill Bill.

"come get it if you think you can" honestly... She could have taken the sword so many times if she really wanted to

Badass how that music kick in the beginning and u hear a growl🔥🔥🔥 🐉

The whole scene is amazing, my favorite part is at 1:47 when Michelle uses the curved end sword and swings it around twice.

Marvel/DC take note: this is how you shot a fight scene, with attention to details, not chopped up sequences.

she knew her blade was going to break during their last exchange and used the flappy sword's strength and turned it into its weakness

Quite a few favorite scenes-this is one

This was the first movie I purchased on DVD. Love this movie! 😀

That's SO well done!

Watched it when I was eight or nine and was the only time I watched it. I remember going to the bamboo forest some distance to our house back then and would try to jump from one bamboo to another after I watched this film. Can't remember what is the film about anymore, might have to watch it again.

1:23 -1:24 best sound ever.

She just flys away at the end XD.

Still up there in the best ever movies. The other ones that comes to mind is Fearless, and the protector

Michelle Yeoh is a definite Action? Martial Arts FOX. Great video.😉😁👌🏾

Forever a masterpiece!

paying to win vs being good at the game in a nutshell

Why on earth the dubbed version, it takes a bit of the edge of the fight, Zhang and Michelle really are outstanding here!

I still think this is by far the best choreographed Chinese martial arts movie. Don’t get me wrong, Donnie yen has the best fight scenes, but Crouching Tiger had the best balance of everything. It wasn’t too physics defying or improbable. It’s was just perfect. Like other martial arts movies would be like “that can’t happen” or “bullshit move.” CTHD was like whoa.. like I’ve just seen martial arts movie for the first time

A truly Iconic fight scene anđ Legendary sword! The choreo for this scene should be Legendary too! I'd say they're both masters just for being able to do it!

These racks hold the 18 weapons of kung fu. Many traditional, old style kung fu schools have them.

A strong woman is good, Noble And impressive; She must require strength because otherwise she will never attain power

Okay, what I'm about to say has ALREADY been said in some of the comments down below(more than likely😊). Looking at Yeoh's & Ziyi's characters and we see the contrasts: Old vs. Young, Experience vs. Inexperience, Lower/Middle Class vs. Upper Class. Yet with those differences, so to speak, we see two ladies throw down in an awesome fight scene. Side Note: If my math is correct, this movie is twenty years old and it doesn't look it. Another reason to love this scene is that BOTH Yu and Lien hold their own against each other. While Yu has the green sword of destiny that doesn't automatically favor her, in the same way having age & experience doesn't favor Lien either. I view the fight as a draw. Yes, technically, Yu does "beat" Lien...but not by much. I look at Yu's immense skill and talent and wonder where she could've gone if trained under the guidance of Li Mu Bai. She surpassed(easily) her master, Jade Fox. Damn, freaking great movie!

She said "and after you cook, Wash Your Dishes!"

I gona watch this movie again.

A classic scene.

One of these characters could be ideal as a guest in a future Mortal Kombat game

In the real world the fight probably would have ended when the tiger head hooks came out. I doubt a jian could deflect them so easily. Plus they are sharp as hell. Cut myself the first time I handled mine.

I absolutely love the Hook swords! There my favorite swords!

Where's my super cut of one move split into 7 shots? Oh, wait.. I forgot both of these actresses really know what they're doing.

Should of done more of this in her star trek role

So this is how Emperor Georgiou got her sword skills.

Eric film with a tragic story of love that could not be

Lv80 character with Lv99 sword VS Lv99 character with Lv 80 weapons

You do an awesome job... keep doing what you do...it reminds me how great my mum is and how inadequate my father is. SSSSSSSSS🐍

Michelle Yeoh..........be still my beating heart!

Dayhamm, Michelle sure is a beauty. ZZ not so bad neither. Great action film all around. My DVD got lots of views.

When Zhang Ziyi uses her two fingers to seemingly aim, I've read about this being a counter-balance to the weapon itself. I haven't found much information about this technique though. Was this normal in Kung Fu weaponry? Did it work? Where did it come from? It seems to leave the fingers exposed, so is it just stylistic?

Incredible!!!!!

I dont see China film making fight like this anymore. Miss 90s and early 2000. Most epic for me 3:07

I think you must pay homage to Red Sonja also. She is feminine incarnate.

*When you realise that two Chinese women can do swordplay 15x better than Rey from Stars Wars...*

this is the greatest Chinese saber vs long sword duel ever depicted on film (as in film, not "realistic")

Zhang zhi Yi is one of the best for me

They have to do this in slo motion then speed up the film right? RIGHT? RIGHT???????

Yu Shu Lien could have ended this if she wanted to early. Didn't have the heart to.

I always wondered if those broadswords can actually split in two, or was that done through camera tricks?

Hated this movie but enjoyed the fight scenes

See, I grew up with Kung Fu Theater in the 70's so when this movie came out in 2000 I was like "what's the big deal, I've seen this before" Then I realized I was old and there were probably a few generations below me that never saw Kung Fu Theater sooo....nevermind 😁

The dubbing is impressive.

Yu wasn’t trying to kill Jen. It’s as simple as that. She was only trying to disarm her and get the Destiny back. If Yu had been ruthless……..Jen would be dead.

For goodness sake, just let the girl borrow the car tonight.

They wrecking the house

When level 60 with legendary weapon fight level 99 with ordinary weapon

It's not the sword that creates a master.

Lvl-10 character with item level 50 vs. Lvl-50 character with level 1 items. This is why you need to have good items.... XD

Use the original audio and subtitles next time. Sheeeeeeesh.

This ends here! *flies away* >:|

So I guess she was lying when she said she wasn't much good with a straight sword.

Can we appreciate the drums ?