Still in the FWFR birthday mode so you might have already seen some of these.
Her Twelve Men was an unsucessful atempt to do a distaff Goodbye Mr. Chips with Greer Garson ( who was married to Robert Donat's Mr Chips) as the teacher.
in 12 Angry Men juror Henry Fonda proves a point by pacing out a certain distance in the jury room.
NB: "The Last Emperor" concerns the final ruler of the Qing Dynasty and, in the first part of the film, his Scottish teacher. "Kundun" is Scorsese's film about the Dalai Lama. Jet Li's nameless assassin has a sword fight on the surface of a lake in "Hero". "The Lost Bladesman" is about the legendary General Guan Yu of the Han Dynasty.