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The Assassin
Directed by
Hou Hsiao-hsien
Not Rated
2015
1h 45m
Action
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History
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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
Chang Chen
Tian Ji'an
Shu Qi
Nie Yinniang
Zhou Yun
Lady Tian Yuan / Jingjinger
Satoshi Tsumabuki
Mirror Polisher
Ni Dahong
Nie Feng
Yong Mei
Lady Nie Tian
Lei Zhenyu
Tian Xing
Nikki Hsieh
Huji
Ethan Juan
Xia Jing
Sheu Fang-Yi
Princess Jiacheng / Taoist Nun
Jacques Picoux
Kongkonger
Mei Fang
Nie Feng's Mother
Tien Pi-Hua
Tian Xing's Wife
Wang I-Yuan
Tian Xing's Son
Michael Chang
Jiang Shize
Leon Dai
Tian Xu
Jack Kao
Yuan Yi
Sun Pei
Madam Yuan Yi
Tsang Chi-Liang
Hou Zang
Chao Yang-Chiang
Luo Bin
Liu Fu-Hsueh
Cao Jun
Ting Yang-Shih
Tan Zhong
Mo Chung-Yuan
Lao Xia
Tseng Han-Shou
Ya Jiang
Ho Hsin-Yi
Messenger
Sung Ling-Sheng
Judge
Shu Kuo-Chih
Secretary
Shioli Kutsuna
Mirror Polisher's Wife
Shih Chun
Old Herb Picker
Zhang Yimin
8-Year-Old Nie Yinniang
Li Chen-An
8-Year-Old Nie Yinniang
Jiang Yu
13-Year-Old Nie Yinniang
Xie Ruyin
13-Year-Old Nie Yinniang
Guo Baijun
Little Tian Ji'an
Hannah Ring
Yuan Yi's Daughter
Zhang Tingyi
Tian Huaijian (Tian Ji'an's Son)
Zhang Tingxuan
Tian Huaili (Tian Ji'an's Son)
Ke Qiyou
Tian Huaixun (Tian Ji'an's Son)
Shen Menglong
High Official
Huang Jin
High Official's Concubine
Yan Junlin
High Official
Wang Jiayu
Child
Xu Wei
Eunuch
Zhou Tong
Eunuch
Cui Xiaodong
Eunuch
Miao Libiao
Retainer
Bai Qilong
Retainer
Li Defei
Retainer
Lü Ming
Retainer
Zhang Zhenhua
Retainer
Tang Hsiang-Chu
Retainer
Liu Cheng-Chuan
Retainer
Liu Cheng-Hsun
Retainer
Zhang Yikui
Soldier
Liu Xinli
Soldier
Liu Jiongliang
Soldier
Liu Qingzhong
Soldier
Lai Zheming
Soldier
Wang Wei-Liu
Servant
Li Yuming
Wet Nurse
Ye Yijun
Wet Nurse
Huang Sulian
Wet Nurse
Hong Yishan
Wet Nurse
Xu Huini
Wet Nurse
Song Yilian
Wet Nurse
Chen Yiya
Wet Nurse
Lin Qiaozhen
Wet Nurse
Ding Huachong
Camp Follower
Sun Xianbo
Camp Follower
Wu Jen-Ya
Camp Follower
Vicky Wei
Jiacheng's Lady-in-Waiting
Zhu Fengying
Lady-in-Waiting
Wang Wenyan
Lady-in-Waiting
Guo Wenzhu
Lady-in-Waiting
Li Shujun
Lady-in-Waiting
Zhou Huiping
Maid
Yan Yajuan
Maid
Chen Bingzhen
Maid
Jin Rongxuan
Maid
Chen Shengyuan
Maid
Chen Qianru
Maid
Zhang Lingling
Maid
Zhao Minru
Maid
Tang Tianrui
Maid
Chen Wangquan
Traditional Chinese Physician
Chen Zhijia
Traditional Chinese Physician
Huang Yueshun
Traditional Chinese Physician
Huang Jianrong
Traditional Chinese Physician
Zhang Yizhen
Musician
Ma Junren
Musician
Cheng Ya-Hsin
Musician
Qiu Yixing
Musician
Li Meng-Hsueh
Musician
Wang Hanzhe
Musician
Chen Yishan
Musician
Yang Jipo
Musician
Chen Yingchun
Musician
Aleksandar Stamatov
Musician
Zhan Shuhan
Maiko
Xu Haojun
Maiko
Chiu Tzu-Chi
Maiko
Cheng Xinyi
Maiko
Zou Yinglin
Maiko
Qiu Yuxuan
Maiko
Li Weilun
Maiko
Hou Hsiao-hsien
Director / Writer
Chu Tien-Wen
Writer
Hsieh Hai-Meng
Writer
Zhong 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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