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Back with his first film in eight years, legendary Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien wowed this year's Cannes Film Festival (where he won Best Director) with his awe-inspiring THE ASSASSIN – a wondrous take on the traditional wuxia film. The story is simple, if elusive - in 9th-century China, Nie Yinniang is a young woman who was abducted in childhood from a decorated general and raised by a nun who trained her in the martial arts. After 13 years of exile, she is returned to the land of her birth as an exceptional assassin, with orders to kill her betrothed husband-to-be. She must confront her parents, her memories, and her long-repressed feelings in a choice to sacrifice the man she loves or break forever with the sacred way of the righteous assassins. Rich with shimmering, breathing texture and punctuated by brief but unforgettable bursts of action, THE ASSASSIN is a martial arts film like none made before it.
Original Release
08/27/2015
US Release
10/09/2015
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Qi Shu | Nie Yinniang |
Chang Chen | Tian Ji'an, governor of Weibo / Tian Ji'an |
Yun Zhou | Lady Tian / Lord Tian Ji'an's Wife |
Satoshi Tsumabuki | The Mirror Polisher |
Dahong Ni | Provost Nie Feng / Nie Feng |
Mei Yong | Yinniang' Mother |
Chen-Yu Lei | Tien Xing (Yinniang's Uncle) / Tien Xing |
Nikki Hsieh | Huji,Tian Ji'an's concubine / Concubine Huji |
Ethan Juan | Xia Jing, the aide-de-camp / Xia Jing |
Fang-yi Sheu | Princess-Nun Jiaxin / Princess Jiacheng |
Directors
Writers
Cheng Ah, T'ien-wen Chu, Hai-Meng Hsieh, Xing Pei, Hsiao-hsien Hou
Cast
Name | Character |
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Qi Shu | Nie Yinniang |
Chang Chen | Tian Ji'an, governor of Weibo / Tian Ji'an |
Yun Zhou | Lady Tian / Lord Tian Ji'an's Wife |
Satoshi Tsumabuki | The Mirror Polisher |
Dahong Ni | Provost Nie Feng / Nie Feng |
Mei Yong | Yinniang' Mother |
Chen-Yu Lei | Tien Xing (Yinniang's Uncle) / Tien Xing |
Nikki Hsieh | Huji,Tian Ji'an's concubine / Concubine Huji |
Ethan Juan | Xia Jing, the aide-de-camp / Xia Jing |
Fang-yi Sheu | Princess-Nun Jiaxin / Princess Jiacheng |
Jacques Picoux | Lady Tian's Teacher |
Shao-Huai Chang | Chiang Nu |
Leon Dai | Tian Xu |
Ti-Ying Hsueh | |
Jack Kao | Yuan Yi |
Fang Mei | Yinniang' Grandmother / Nie Feng's Mother |
Hannah Ring | (as Hsin-Yu Ling) |
Chun Shih | Old Man / Old Herb Picker |
Fan Xu | The Nun |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Hsiao-hsien Hou | Executive Producer |
Yiqi Chen | Executive Producer |
Tai-Chiang Gou | Executive Producer |
Kuen Lin | Executive Producer |
Tzu-Hsien Tung | Executive Producer |
Ching-Sung Liao | Executive Producer |
Peter Lam | Executive Producer |
Wen-Ying Huang | Producer |
Yue Ren | Producer |
Stephen Shin | Producer |
Peter Lam | Producer |
Ching-Sung Liao | Producer |
Dai Song | Producer |
Hong-Tat Cheung | Producer |
Man-Hong Tong | Producer |
Stephen Lam | Producer |