The Assassin
Hou Hsiao-hsien tackles the martial arts genre by investing it with a spiritual dimension.
The Assassin – winner of the Best Director Award at Cannes – is a beautifully stylized tale of a deadly female contract killer, Nie Yinniang. The film is set in ninth-century China at the end of Tang dynasty, when China”s power was at its height.
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