Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is a martial-arts film, released in 2000, directed by Ang Lee, and starring Chow Yun Fat, Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Ziyi and Chang Chen. It is based on the novel of the same name written by Wang Dulu, which was released as part of a pentalogy. It was the first Wuxia film to gain widespread Western acclaim; it won many awards, including four Oscars, and opened the Wuxia genre to huge new audiences.