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The Assassin

刺客聶隱娘

2015

In 9th-century China, a young woman raised from childhood as a lethal assassin is ordered to kill the powerful cousin she was once betrothed to, forcing a reckoning between duty and heart. Hou Hsiao-Hsien's exquisitely spare, painterly wuxia.

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Part of 10 Essential Films from Taiwan

This film is stop 8 of 10 in the hand-ranked native-cinema route through Taiwan. See the complete ranking or read the selection methodology.

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