[JenB]

No, but I don't really like Chinese language. And I'm looking for realistic fight scenes - Matrix, etcetera, don't help...

I'll watch Crouching Tiger sometime just to say I've seen it.

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

I recommend seeing "Crouching Tiger..." It has fantastical elements (the wire work, etc.) but the sword work itself is very good. It convinced me that if the swordfight on the face of Kolvir from Nine Princes in Amber is ever filmed, I'd want Ang Lee to direct it.

[Rose in RoseBear]

"Realistic" like what?

I think anyone who's been trained by Uncle Sam will tell you that real hand-to-hand, wherein two (or more) people are trying to kill one another, has only a nodding acquaintance with anything you can see in any movie.

Even boxing is stylized, even when practiced by the likes of Sonny Liston or Mike Tyson. Fencing has become a faster-than-the-eye event --- blink and it's over. Many of the Asian martial arts have been exaggerated and perverted to look good on the movie screen. Capoeira was intended to be stylized, so it couldn't be identified as fighting. Savate has ben absorbed by other martial arts.

Are you looking for to-the-death fighting? Or "incapacitation?" You might want to look at some USMilitary training videos ... gentlemen, are they worth our time?