Brand new factory sealed vhs tape of the English dubbed version handled respectively and is well above average for this genre. The uncompressed audio is superior to its digital counterpart, offering more gusto. The full frame version is perfect for old school tube TVs as the image will fill your square frame.

After years of meditative training on Wudan Mountain, master swordsman Li Mu Bai (Chow Yun Fat) returns from the countryside with the intention of withdrawing from the martial world. To that end, he asks Shu Lien (Michelle Yeoh) to give his unmatched, 400 year-old sword, Green Destiny, to longtime friend Sir Te (Lung Si-hung). Shortly after this is done, a masked thief steals the weapon, managing to elude the Te guards and Shu Lien, in spite of the latter's superior martial arts.

The robber is Jen Yu (Zhang Ziyi), the teenage daughter of the Governor and a secret pupil of the villainous Jade Fox (Cheng Pei-pei, the queen of '60s kung fu cinema), who is masquerading as her governess.

Although he now aspires to be a man of peace, Mu Bai searches for Jade Fox, who stole his clan's secret martial arts manual and killed his master some years before. Already possessing a rebellious spirit (and having carried on an affair with bandit chieftan Dark Cloud, played by Chang Chen), Jen has become an indomitable force now that she has all but mastered the Wudan techniques outlined in the manual.

Mu Bai recognizes her potential and seeks to take on Jen as his student, but the girl is defiant, and there is still the matter of Jade Fox...