Two Of The 21st Century’s Best Martial Arts Movies Owe Debts To This 3-Hour 1971 Epic

Ang Lee’s film, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, became incredibly popular and inspired a wave of similar martial arts movies, including The House of Flying Daggers, which is now considered one of the best of the 21st century. While these films launched a new trend in the early 2000s, they weren’t the very first of their kind – they built on a long tradition of wuxia cinema.