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THE ASSASSIN

刺客聶隱娘

By Hsiao-Hsien HOU

CENTRAL MOTION PICTURE CORPORATION - as SALES All rights, Other / DISTR Theatrical, TAIWAN / PROD

Martial arts - Completed 2015

- Year of production
- 2015
- Genres
- Martial arts, Historical, Drama
- Countries
- TAIWAN
- Director(s)
- Hsiao-Hsien HOU
- Writer(s)
- Acheng ZHONG, Tien-Wen CHU, Hai-Meng HSIEH
- Cast
- Chen CHANG, Qi SHU, Yun ZHOU, Satoshi TSUMABUKI
- ISAN
- 0000-0004-24EE-0000-6-0000-0000-J
- EIDR
- 10.5240/AE49-5815-B56B-E9C3-203D-E
- Synopsis
- 9th century China. 10-year-old general’s daughter Nie Yinniang is abducted by a nun who initiates her into the martial arts, transforming her into an exceptional assassin charged with eliminating cruel and corrupt locl governors.
  One day, having failed in a task, she is sent back by her mistress to the land of her birth with orders to kill the man to whom she was promised – a cousin who now leads the largest military region in north China. After 13 years of exile, the young woman must confront her parents, her memories and her long-repressed feelings.
  Slave to the orders of her mistress, Nie Yinniang must choose : sacrifice the man she loves or break forever with the sacred way of the righteous assassins.