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The Assassin

OT: Nie Yinniang

Hou Hsiao-Hsien | Taiwan, People's Republic of China, Hong Kong, France, 2015
Fiction Feature | FF2015

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9th century China: the 10-year old girl Nie Yinniang is given into the care of a nun, who spends the following years training her to be a deadly assassin specializing in murdering corrupt politicians, who threaten the influence of the ruling Tang dynasty. On one job, Yinniang is unexpectedly overcome with emotion and the assassination fails. Her client is furious and gives the hesitant trainee one last chance to prove herself.

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Nie Yinniang

Fiction Feature

Chinese

Asiascope | FF2015


Taiwan, People's Republic of China, Hong Kong, France

2015

105 min

OV with English subtitles

Hou Hsiao-Hsien

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Mark Lee Ping Bing

Huang Chih-Chia

Lim Giong

Hwarng Wern-Ying

Delphi Filmverleih GmbH

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