Hybridization has become part of an ongoing trend in cultural production with both the globalization and localization of the culture industry. However, hybridization is not merely the mixing and synthesizing of different elements that ultimately form a culturally faceless whole. This study looks at two globally popular films that were adapted from Chinese works, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Mulan, as examples to illustrate the complex processes of hybridization, and the implications that they have for the debate on the globalization of culture. This study has found that "deculturalization," "aculturalization," and "reculturalization" can be used to characterize the process of the hybridization of cultural products, and that often the producer, with his/her background, aspirations and work style, has a key role to play in deciding how these features are organized and manifested.