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The Assassin
Directed by
Hou Hsiao-hsien
Not Rated
2015
1h 45m
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6.3
80%
48%
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A female assassin receives a dangerous mission to kill a political leader in eighth-century China.
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Cast of The Assassin
Shu Qi
Nie Yinniang
Chang Chen
Tian Ji'an
Nikki Hsieh
Concubine Huji
Sheu Fang-Yi
Jiaxin
Ethan Juan
Xia Jing
Xu Fan
The Nun
Zuo Xiaoqing
Taoist Nun
Satoshi Tsumabuki
The Mirror Polisher
Ni Dahong
Nie Feng
Shih Chun
Old Herb Picker
Zhou Yun
Lord Tian Ji'an's Wife
Mei Fang
Nie Feng's Mother
Jacques Picoux
Lady Tian's Teacher
Yong Mei
Yinniang's Mother
Lei Zhenyu
Tien Xing
Shao-Huai Chang
Chiang Nu
Leon Dai
Tian Xu
Jack Kao
Yuan Yi
Hsin-Yu Ling
Hou Hsiao-hsien
Director / Writer
Chu Tien-wen
Writer
Hsieh Hai-Meng
Writer
A Cheng
Writer
Song Dai
Producer
Stephen Lam Bing-Kwan
Producer
Chen Yiqi
Producer
Peter Lam Kin-Ngok
Producer
The Assassin Ratings & Reviews
Reel Talk Online
Candice Frederick
I say this all to say that folks have been fallen all over themselves for the Chinese drama, THE ASSASSIN, which is indeed a solid film but nothing I haven't see before
Detroit News
Adam Graham
"The Assassin" is gorgeous to look at, but not all that compelling to watch.
BuzzFeed News
Alison Willmore
It's so lovely, from the brocade draped interiors to the mist moving over a landscape in the half light, like a series of confounding paintings placed end to end.
Seattle Times
Soren Andersen
The visuals relegate the acting to secondary importance. They overwhelm the story. And they make "The Assassin" unforgettable.
San Francisco Chronicle
G. Allen Johnson
Part of the problem is Hou's style works at odds with the material.
Arizona Republic
Barbara VanDenburgh
It's so elliptical in its approach that there's no love for anyone, or anything, outside of beauty. It can be admired - greatly, even - but it can't be felt.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
It's not for everyone. But if you think it's for you - if you believe that beauty is its own reward - find the biggest canvas on which to behold this movie that you possibly can. It's IMAX for aesthetes.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
Although Hou Hsiao-Hsien's The Assassin is technically a wuxia film - martial arts, swordplay, the whoosh of arrows in flight - it is much more a film of stillness, quiet, beauty.
Washington Post
Mark Jenkins
As with Wong Kar-wai's "The Ashes of Time," Hou's take on the martial-arts flick is affectionate, but may frustrate fans of the genre. "The Assassin" is a mood piece, evoking rather than explaining.
Newsday
John Anderson
Not for everyone, but gloriously cinematic, utterly absorbing.
RogerEbert.com
Peter Sobczynski
Visually ravishing and formally graceful ...
New York Times
A.O. Scott
The film is intriguing, but ultimately opaque, a lovely, inert object that offers, in the name of movie love, an escape from so much that is vital and interesting about movies.
TheWrap
Alonso Duralde
Hou's brand of reserve might not be for all audiences, but arthouse admirers of cinematic stillness will find themselves enraptured by this hypnotic tale.
Los Angeles Times
Mark Olsen
Combining Hou's patient, observant style with a historical martial arts tale, the film is a fascinating hybrid of craft, genre and story.
NPR
Ella Taylor
With and without allegory, to watch The Assassin is to be carried along in the river of life, in all its ecstasy and terror.
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
So ravishingly lovely that tracking the plot is far less important than luxuriating in the images.
The Daily Beast
Nick Schager
[The Assassin] operates as if it were a dream, employing Hou's trademark long takes and unhurried camera movements to lull one into a trance, the better to then deliver thrills through jolts of measured, expertly choreographed violence.
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
The story promises action, but this brooding martial-arts adventure from Hou Hsiao-hsien is largely a pictorial experience.
AV Club
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
The Assassin is one of the most flat-out beautiful movies of the last decade, and also one of the most puzzling.
The New Yorker
Richard Brody
Hou Hsiao-hsien's historical drama, set in ninth-century China, fuses political struggles and family grudges into images of a sumptuous stillness, which he punctuates with spasms of extravagant martial artistry.
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