CTHD revolutionized movies! It was beautiful, comtemplative, sometimes too comtemplative, but always beautiful and poetic. I really only knew "kung-fu movies" from when I was a child. Kung Fu Theatre, anyone? This made it seem you could take any genre and make art out of it. Just the melding of mysticism, martial arts, the cinematography, and a damn good tale to tell made CTHD on of my top foreign films of the last few years.  Chris