The Assassin (movie)
刺客聶隱娘- User score: 6.4
- Production country: China, France, Hong Kong, Taiwan
- Producer: Hou Hsiao-hsien
- Production companies: Sil-Metropole Organisation, Media Asia Films, Central Motion Picture Corporation, Huace Film & TV, China Dream Film Culture Industry, SpotFilms, Wild Bunch
- Genre: Action, Drama, History
- Budget: $15,000,000
- Revenue: $11,991,669
- Release date: 8/27/2015
- Run time: 105 min.
Movie description
9th century China. Ten 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 local 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.
