One movie which offered up somewhat of a critical evaluation of Eastern mysticism and the Daoist Way is the martial-arts fantasy epic Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) starring Chow Yun-Fat and Michelle Yeoh. This film was directed by Tiawanese-born Ang Lee, filmed on location in China, based on a 1930s Chinese series of wuxia (martial hero genre) novels, and filled with an all-Asian cast. Movies with such credentials are usually unsuccessful in America, especially when they have subtitles or dubbing. But paradoxically, in America it became the highest-grossing foreign-language film in history.