Introduction Interpreting the specimens of Asian culture is not easy; the symbols, the way in which they are decoded, the messages and the means to convey the latter differ from the European and the American traditions greatly. However, the aforementioned does not mean that Asian movies are a closed book for the rest of the humankind. Taking a closer look at some of the elements of the Asian films, one can possibly see that there are, in fact, a number of ideas that cross with the European and American concepts. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is one of the most graphic examples of such phenomena – while the movie is filled with the elements of the oriental culture and ties in several plot lines. Despite the abundance of exaggerated scenes of ridiculously unbelievable fight moves and the over-the-top twists of the plot, as an attempt to introduce the specifics of the Asian aesthetics to the viewer, the movie can be considered a masterpiece. Historical Background Action movies seem to have been put on a conveyor belt shortly after the Hollywood had taken over the world as the movie production giant. Acquiring an easily identified pattern and cardboard characters to go with, action movies turned into a staple very quickly. The same cannot be said about Crouching Tiger , however. Perhaps, due to the fact that it is not a Hollywood production and, which is even more important, it never intended to have anything to do with the latter, Crouching Tiger offers an intriguing trip into the specifics of the Asian culture in general and Chinese culture in particular. As a matter of fact, the movie has quite a unique history. To start with, the movie was inspired by the environment in which Ang Lee grew in. As the movie director recalls, the movies about Chinese martial arts were shown every week in the neighborhood where his family resided. Delighted by the possibilities that the plastics of the people teaching Chinese martial arts was, lee decided that someday, he would devote an entire movie to showing the beauty of these movements. However, the world might have never seen Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ’s incredible aesthetics of motion if it has not been for one film show in the local cinema. Delighted by the plastics of the actors’ movements, he decided that his movie must introduce the elements of such plastics as well: “Indeed, in both films the power of the heroes has little to do with the capabilities of their bodies, clearly evident in the weightless jumps of The Matrix and the gliding run in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ” (Baker n. p.). In fact, the two movies have much more than only the fight movements in common. The plot of the two films also revolves around the same idea concerning the hidden reality: “In Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon the hidden reality is never explicit, but is implied towards the end of the film” (Baker n. p.). Finally, the movie introduces the characters, which are very similar to the ones created in The Matrix , especially the female cast. There is no secret that in the Eastern traditions, women are typically offered the role of a housewife, the weaker sex, which is highly dependable on the stronger one. In Crouching