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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Traditional: 臥虎藏龍; Simplified: 卧虎藏龙; Hanyu Pinyin: Wò Hǔ Cáng Lóng) is a wuxia ("martial arts and chivalry") film released in 2000. It is a China/Hong Kong/Taiwan/USA co-produced film. It was directed by Ang Lee and starred Chow Yun-Fat, Michelle Yeoh, and Zhang Ziyi. It was choreographed by Yuen Wo Ping (袁和平; pinyin: Yuán Hépíng) and based on the fourth novel in a pentalogy, known in China as the ... Including:

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The Shaw Studio (邵氏片場), owned by Shaw Brothers (HK) Ltd. HKEx: 0080, is the forerunner and the largest movie production company of Hong Kong movies. From their distribution base in Singapore and as a strategic development of their movie distribution business in South East Asia, Sir Run Run Shaw (邵逸夫) and his third brother Runme Shaw (邵仁枚) founded South Sea Film (sp?) (南洋影片) in 1930. It was later renamed Shaw Brothers Studio. The studio released Hong Kong's first movie with sound 《白金龍》 (which translates as "platinum dragon", ...

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Despite having no formal martial arts training, Yeoh is best known for her roles in action and martial arts movies (notably The Heroic Trio in 1993, and the Yuen Woo-ping films The Tai-Chi Master and Wing Chun in 1994). She relies on her dance training and instructors, and does many of her own stunts. She is one of the few women Jackie Chan allows to do her own stunts in his movies; they first worked together on a commercial in 1984. Yeoh learned English and Malay before Chinese (Cantonese dialect), and still cannot read Chinese. In some of ...

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Ubisoft Entertainment (formerly Ubi Soft) is a computer and video game publisher and developer headquarters in Montreuil, France. The company has facilities in over 20 countries, including development studios in Montreal, Canada; Barcelona, Catalonia; North Carolina; Düsseldorf, Germany; and Milan, Italy, amongst other locations. As of 2004, it is the third-largest independent video game publisher in Europe, and the seventh largest in the US. The "Ubi" in Ubisoft is sometimes pronounced [juːbi] or more often [u'bi], however i ... Including:

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Architecture Cinema Comic books Cuisine Dance Literature Music Poetry Sculpture Television Theater Visual arts The cinema of the United States, although it is sometimes simply referred to as Hollywood does not refer only to the film industry of the United States of America. Other modes of production like documentary film or exper ... Including:

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• Cinema of the United States - Rise of the home video market
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The Academy Award for Best Picture is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; the awards are voted on by other people within the industry. As is the customary practice in Wikipedia for listing Oscar results, the winner of the award for that year is listed first, followed by the runners-up. The films below are listed with their production year, so fo ... Including:

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Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film - As an Honorary Award. 1950 The Walls of Malapaga (Au delà des grilles) (France/Italy) - Francinex, Italia Produzione - George Agliani and Alfredo Guarini producers - René Clément director 1951 Rashomon (羅生門) (Japan) - Daiei Motion Picture Co., Daiei Studios - Minoru Jingo producer - Akira Kurosawa director 1952 Forbidden Games (Jeux interdits) (France) - Silver Films - Robert Dorfmann producer - Ren� ... Including:

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In 1983, Yeoh returned to her home country, Malaysia. It was at the age of 21 when Yeoh became the winner of the Miss Malaysia beauty pageant in 1983. From there, she appeared in a television commercial with Jackie Chan which caught the attention of a fledgling film production company called D&B Films. Yeoh's career in Hong Kong started in modeling, where she appeared in a series of commercials for Charles Jourdan, opposite action movie heroes Jackie Chan and Chow Yun-Fat. The Charles Jourdan brand was handled by D&B Group in ...

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Motion pictures were introduced to China in 1896. The first recorded screening of a motion picture in China occurred in Shanghai on August 11, 1896, as an "act" on a variety bill. The first Chinese film, a recording of the Beijing Opera, The Battle of Dingjunshan, was made in November 1905. For the next decade the production companies were mainly foreign-owned, and the domestic film industry did not start in earnest until 1916, centering around Shang ...

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No single figure was more responsible for this international profile than Bruce Lee, a San Francisco-born, Hong Kong-raised actor and martial artist. As a young man in America, Lee assayed a few small roles in Hollywood movies and a supporting part on the Green Hornet TV series, as well as working as a noted martial arts instructor whose students included stars like Steve McQueen. In 1971, frustrated by the lack of opportunities for performers of Asian descent, he came back to Hong Kong . Unwilling to settle for the standard starting ...

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Studios supplement these movies with independent productions, made with small budgets and often independently of the studio corporation. Movies made in this manner typically emphasize high professional quality in terms of acting, directing, screenwriting, and other elements associated with production, and also upon creativity and innovation. These movies usually rely upon critical praise or niche marketing to garner an audience. Because of an independent film's low budgets, a successful independent film can have a high profit-to-cost ratio, ...

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The film industry continued to develop after 1945. A major Chinese production house, the Lianhua Film Company, re-established itself in Shanghai after the war and once again became the basis for leftist directors. Many showed the disillusionment with the oppressive rule of Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist Party. Myriads of Lights (1948), Crows and Sparrows (1949), San Mao (1949), and, most importantly, The Spring River Flows East (1947) are the classics produced during this period. The Spring River Flows East, ...

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Other significant American-born film directors include: Woody Allen Robert Altman John Ford Howard Hawks John Huston Stanley Kubrick Spike Lee Martin Scorsese Orson Welles Other iconic American actors include: Fred Astaire Marlon Brando Robert De Niro James Cagney Joan Crawford Bette Davis James Dean Clint Eastwood (also notable as a director) Henry Fonda ...

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Chan's clowning may have helped extend the life of the kung fu wave. For all that, he had become a star towards the end of the boom, and would soon help move the colony towards a new type of action. In the 1980s, he and many colleagues would forge a slicker, more spectacular Hong Kong pop cinema that would successfully compete with the post-Star Wars summer blockbusters from America. Hong ...

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