NIE YINNIANG

(THE ASSASSIN)
Hsiao-Hsien HOU
  • 2015
  • In Competition
  • Feature Films
Award for Best Director 2015

9th 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 exceptional assassin charged with eliminating cruel and corrupt local governors. One day, having failed in a task, she is sent back by her mistress to the land of her birth, with orders to kill the man to whom she was promised – a cousin who now leads the largest military region in North China. After 13 years of exile, the young woman must confront her parents, her memories and her long-repressed feelings.
A slave to the orders of her mistress, Nie Yinniang must choose: sacrifice the man she loves or break forever with the sacred way of the righteous assassins.  

Directed by : Hsiao-Hsien HOU
Year of production: 2015
Country: Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, France
Duration: 104 minutes

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  • SPOTFILMS
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    Taipei City 115, Taiwan,R.O.C. Taiwan
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  • Sil-Metropole

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  • MEDIA ASIA FILM DISTRIBUTION (HK) LTD Hong Kong

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  • CMPC

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