You always pop up that subscribe button over the subtitles.

Props to the abacus guy. He calculated his chances as 0 but tried his best anyways

The spin at 3:40 still gives me chills all these years later, ever since the first time I saw it in the trailer. So graceful and beautiful.

“Who could remember such long winded names?” LOL!

The facial expressions and how effortlessly she steps through each opponent... Always enjoyed this scene...

Through most of this movie I found her character to be selfish and immature, but in this scene I fully support her kicking the butts of all those blustering fools that can't even let somebody come into town and have a meal in peace. I felt bad for the tavern owner who had a really cool place but it was trashed by one brawl. It would be cool if somebody duplicated this restaurant in real life as kind of an homage to this film

Never fight someone who knows how to fly.

I rewatched this film recently and saw this scene in a new light. Initially, I had the attitude of "well these jerks deserve it for starting a fight." But Jen really is very naive about the jianghu. She flaunts the Green Destiny sword openly. When those martial men see it, they come over to find out what connection she has with Li Mu Bai. She boasts that she defeated him. Either she's a lying thief who stole his sword, or she's a true enemy of his. So maybe they challenged her because they are friends of Li Mu Bai, or maybe they challenged her because they wanted to become more famous by defeating someone so strong, or maybe they wanted to trounce a lowly thief. But her bragging caused this misunderstanding. Even when they attack, they are careful to explain to her they are attacking. They do ask for a match with her. At no point does she ever display any courtesy or respect towards them. Just based on her age, she should be a little respectful of a senior martial artist. Even if she is stronger. Her rudeness escalates the situation and turns potential friends into enemies. During the fight, she spouts poetry about how great she is and continues to insult her foes. The degree of offense she causes ensures bad feeling. If her intent wasn't to kill them all, then she had to know that this poor behavior would create a rift between herself and others. Their intent in challenging her may have been good or evil, but how she responds reveals her extreme naivete. When she runs crying to Michelle Yeoh's character, Michelle tries to explain this to her, but she still fails to understand.

When Tarantino makes a saber fight scene in a restaurant, it's all slashes and heaps of bloody bodies. When Ang Lee makes a saber fight in a restaurant, it's all gracious accuracy and light blows defeating brute force. Ang Lee reached the Tao.

Zhang Ziyi is a phenomenal actress, this is one of my favourite films that she did. And it has Michelle Yeoh!!! Ultimate excellence in choreography, stunts, physical prowess… and with such elegant, feminine grace

That beautiful, young actress was fantastic, and stole millions of hearts without even trying. She will always put a smile on my face!

She just owned this scene. She just wanted to take a break and chill with some tea. It was amazing how skillful she was with the Green Des still sheathed. Just rocks it.

Something lost in translation at 3:47. She did not refer to herself as a godess, but a xian, which is an immortal being beyond all worldly matters, including gender. This is echoed near the end of the poem when she vows to defeat Eu-mei (a female-only monestary) and Wudang (a male-only monastery).

I saw this in an old theatre in downtown San Diego before it was dubbed, so it was subtitled like this version. IIRC this came out before The Matrix, and there was a silent awe in the audience as these scenes played out. We all knew we were witnessing something truly groundbreaking and felt specially favored to have been among the first to see it. Before Trinity, there was Chow Yun Fat, Michelle Yeoh and Zhang Ziyi.

She just wanted an arena to show off her skill and prowess. Just looking for adventure and trying to establish a legendary name. She didn't kill anyone just teased them a bit, broke their backs and bloodied their lips, but wanted them to stay alive, to remember her, and to pass on stories about her and what she did.

The whole movie is a like a poem with a heartbreaking end but all the way through has a genuine sense of lightness and humor, even during an action scene like this one.

0:29 why did you have to cover the subtitles

0:29 The waiter says, that's some food I gotta go to the other restaurant to get she responds, "Then hurry up"

Did she really say “I leave no trace” with a straight face as she destroys that inn??

this always happens to me when I order tea at Starbucks. They told me not to return.

great move inserting Scene City over a good portion of the subtitle. Really makes me want to watch these clips.

This film contains some of the best fights scenes in movie history. Ziyi Zhang in so cool in this scene. 👏👏👏

One of the best martial arts fight scenes ever made (in my opinion), and Zhang Ziyi's encore display to show off her supremacy to her antagonizing opponents probably floored a GREAT MANY viewers. Did anyone notice she never killed any of these adversaries, choosing to merely humble them with a "lesson?" The collapsing balcony/bridge at the end of this scene was a brilliant finish to this scene! She captured an awful lot of hearts with this movie, too. Need that be said?

I love how everyone just books it out of there the moment the guy hits the table, a real energy of 'well shit, I can see where this is going.'

To this day one of the greatest movies ever made. Iron monkey and wing chun - in 94 also

One of the all time greatest fight scenes in any movie. She is phenomenal and of course, the subtitled option is much better than the English dubbing. In this movie, there was no CGI, but there was prolific use of wires and pulleys to make the actors fly and float.

Zhang Ziyi is so awesome in this movie, actually in all her movies 😃 Crouching Tiger & Hero are my favorites

The Restaurant scene is the best part of this movie. Such a great fight, well, apart from the fight between Zhang and Michele.

Incredible balance, flexibility and skill. So many actresses can pretend to be tough but they lack the grace and fluidity of Zhang. She is convincing when she fights; love it.

I love how she talks shit while she beats up these preening fools. Even the music is perfect. This and the sword fight with Michelle Yeoh are my two favorite scenes from this movie.

The way that guy sits down in the chair around the one minute mark is how I'm going to sit from now on.

lol Gou trying to turn slowly after he realizes he pissed the champ cracks me every time

Quick grab your weapons a master has arrived That one guy: *grabs an abacus*

One of the best scenes in Chinese moviemaking history....No offense to Yeoh but only Ziyi could've pulled this off because of her youthful innocence and classical dance training

Those days were awesome when gravity didn't exist... damn Sir Isacc Newton had to ruin it all.

"Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" won 4 Academy Awards (2000) and was remarkably directed by Ang Lee... who also directed many diverse movies... staged in China, England, USA.

I have very much same feelings seeing my boss entering the canteen when I am just enjoying my coffee during a ten-minute break.

Funniest scene of any Kung fu film. She really makes me laugh - and the final Kata is just awesome.

I always rewind this scene over and over again and played slo motion on the DVD back in the day it is such a masterpiece epic scene.

This channel's subscribe advertisement is annoying. It blocked a good chunk of the subtitles. Not all of us are fluent in Chinese

The music and sound effects in this film were sublime. They really support and enhance this scene, turning it into something very beautiful.

Love this scene, the fighting, the stunts, the dialogue, the flute music in the background. Brilliant!

This is a perfect movie. Pure art. Pure mythology. Wonderful.

Serves them right for knocking her pint over. 😂

I love how Gou sort of realizes he made a mistake and just tries to turn away. Like it's going to be that easy.

I remember having the super resolution DVD of this when it first became available....This deserves a 4k HDR 10 remaster if it doesn't already.

I saw this film in IMAX in downtown Chicago with a good friend 21 or 22 years ago. Watched it last night with my 8 year old daughters at home. Long, but good movie. I grew watching martial art movies in the 80s on Saturday afternoons or Sunday afternoons. CTHD was fun when it was released. It was still fun last night. Respect. Thanks for sharing this. 👍

I love these Chinese Kung Fu movies. They used to have earlier versions of them on TV on Sundays. Flying around, walking on the walls and ceiling. Great stuff. The hopping vampire ones were funny as hell.

It’s a pity Zhang Ziyi never conquered Hollywood the way it seemed she was going to. She was such a beauty.

I love you Zhang Ziyi

I love the initial fight with Iron Arm. First she just pushes him back. Then she rips off his arm sleeve. He doesn't take the hint so she goes to step 3 and sends him backwards over the effing rail. 🤣 He's the very definition of "f--king around and finding out." 😂

I love how irreverent and rude she is, it makes it hilarious! "Southern Duck? Who can remember such long-winded names!" hahaha

Great movie and I’ll always remember the great ending of that last scene.

This was what China used to be like before communism. People used to be able to fly life was good.

This scene is a tribute to Cheng Pei Pei who played Jade Fox in this movie. She was a star of wuxia movies in the 1960s which typically had restaurant scenes like this one.

one of my favorite movies. I always have a box of tissues at hand

Love how your logo is so huge that it covers the subtitles. Ugh.

can we all appreciate the guy who brings an abacus as his weapon of choice? 2:28 He is the one to fear here.

I also watched this when it first came out. Theatre in NoCal. It still holds up as a good flick!

Every time I watch this scene, that one guy using an Abacus as a weapon just cracks me up. He repeatedly jumps into the fray only to get swept aside instantly every time!

that movie is still incredible

Fantastic! Loved it! As a former martial artist there were some very clever little tidbits in the sword fighting. One where she breaks all of the ringlets on the other persons sword. That is supposed to be like the Grandmaster sword with the ringlets that will catch the blade of an attacking sword, but she just sliced through the ringlets making that sword more useless. It was just a blip in the scene but a clever detail for anyone who knows the different weapons. Actually it was a pretty neat display of a variety of weapons of the time. I appreciated the authenticity of that aspect. Very well done fight scene, even though of course in reality you would be hard pressed to find someone who really had those skills, but in the mythology of course they do exist, and perhaps even at some point in time they did in reality as well. After I saw my Grandmaster astral project one time I started to believe some of the mythology just might actually be true! 😊😊👍👍😉😉

This is a really beautiful fairytale movie. I still love it every time I see it.

The guy at the end trying to sneak out always cracks me up.

This will always be one of my favorite movies of all time.

I saw the movie in Honolulu when it was released. I loved it. Michelle Yeoh is a goddess. And Zhang Ziyi is hot. ❤️❤️

Man she destroyed that lovely restaurant. Looked like a good place to hang out

I love that little wrist flick she does at 1:58 *and* I appreciate them showing how that would really hurt if you're not trained right.

this is one of the greatest movies ever made

Camera work is better than many modern movies.

This movie totally needs a sequel. One of the best combinations of great choreography, great acting, beautiful cinematography, and engaging storylines. I know there was a 'sequel' but it was phony because it wasn't connected to Ang Lee and didn't have the incomparable Zhang Ziyi.

Probably my most loved scene of the whole film. 😄

theres a famous parody of this with Zhang Ziyi...look it up under her name, visa commercial, very funny....

First time I saw this, I saw it on video so I rewound it to make sure I'd seen what I'd just saw. A friend of mine said that she saw it in the movie theater and at the end of the scene people stood up and clapped.

You cannot help but fall in Love with her and Michelle in this great movie!

Beautiful, I've forgotten the elegance and beauty powering this.

Everytime she spins up to the second floor I get goosebumps!!

Martial Arts movies were never the same after this came out

Good job on blocking the subtitles with your logo. Well done.

One of my favorite scenes in this movie

Love this movie. The sheer ridiculousness is amazing!

Pure art.

Thanks for making your Subscribe banner cover the dialogue. 👍

She won my heart seeing her replicating this scene with her credit card ad back then before seeing this actual scenes in the movie.Zhang Ziyi was so gorgeous in that ad with her hair flowing through her beautiful face as far I can remember before she deliver those exquisite moves with grace and flair just like in the movie.

I love how your "Scene city subscribe" popup blocks the dialog.. nice work guys

love it. Best Kung Fu movie ever.

One of my favorite films of all time

That forehead slap is fantastic. They did a really good job of the sound effects in this film.

In case anyone wanted to know what the subtitles say when the image appears, here's my crack at it: "Boss, this is going to take awhile. It's stuff that's only available from the large restaurant." "Better get going then."

Naturally that scene was shot with wire work but it was shot beautifully that's for sure.

Love love love smooth camera work during fight scenes!!!

She’s my favorite artist . I love to watch all her movies !!!

This whole fight scene is beautiful. Better than hollywood puts out.

A pub fight is nothing compared to a tea house fight.

gotta be my favorite scene from one of my favorite movies I just love this clip

The best martial arts director ever.

Those editors sure know how to hide the wires that make these athletes FLY! 😂

The translation lost the beauty of the poem she used to introduce herself.

I totally love this scene!

I love this movie so much and I remember 13 year old me falling in love with this actresses.