Morelia Film Fest

OCTOBER 2020
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The Assassin

Nie Yinniang

2015 | China, France, Hong Kong, Taiwán | Color | 104 min.

Ninth-century China. 10-year-old general’s daughter Nie Yinniang is abducted by a nun who initiates her into the martial arts, transforming her into an authentic avenger charged with eliminating tyrants. After 13 years of exile, she returns with orders to kill a cousin, her betrothed. Nie Yinniang must choose: sacrifice the man she loves or break forever with the order of assassins.

Direction: Hsiao-hsien, Hou

Script: Hsiao-hsien, Hou | Tien-Wen, Chu

Country: China, France, Hong Kong, Taiwán

Production: Hsiao-Hsien, Hou | Kufn, Lin | Peter, Lam | Tai-Chiang, Gou | Tzu-Hsien, Tung | Yiqi, Chen

Production Company: Spotfilms

Photography: Ping Bing, Mark Lee

Edition: Chih-Chia, Huang | Ching-Sung, Liao

Sound: Duu-chih, Tu

Music: Giong, Lim

Cast: Chen, Chang | Ching-tian, Juan | Fang-yi, Sheu | Hsin-ying, Hsieh | Satoshi, Tsumabuki | Shu, Qi | Yun, Zhou

Art Direction: Wern-Ying, Hwarng

Year of participation at FICM:
2015

Films by the same director presented at FICM:

Café Lumière (2004)