Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is a 2000 wuxia martial arts action adventure film directed by Ang Lee and written for the screen by Wang Hui-ling, James Schamus, and Tsai Kuo-jung.
The film stars Chow Yun-fat, Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Ziyi, and Chang Chen. It is based on the Chinese novel of the same name, serialized between 1941 and 1942 by Wang Dulu, the fourth part of his Crane Iron pentalogy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crouching_Tiger%2C_Hidden_Dragon
… Have you seen Grave of the Fireflies?
Incredible movie with a powerful message about what war is like (even long afterwards) - but to say it has a downer ending is rather an understatement. Also downer middle and downer beginning.
Fun fact: the author of the autobiographical letter it’s based on preferred the movie ending.
Oh yeah, it’s based on a true story.
I have, yeah. That’s why it’s on my never watch again list. I wouldn’t want to ruin that memory.