The Assassin (Hou Hsiao-hsien)

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The Assassin Blu-ray



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Independent distributors Well Go USA have sent us the official trailer for acclaimed director Hou Hsiao-hsien's latest film The Assassin, starring Shu Qi, Chen Chang, and Satoshi Tsumabuki. The film will open in theaters across the nation on October 16.

A Blu-ray release is expected to be announced later this year.

The Assassin won Best Director and Best Soundtrack Awards at this year's edition of the Cannes Film Festival. It was also selected to represent Taiwan in the Best Foreign Language Film Category of the Academy Awards.

Synopsis: Back with his first film in 8 years, legendary Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien wowed this year's Cannes Film Festival (where he won Best Director) with his awe-inspiring The Assassin - a wondrous take on the traditional wuxia film. The story is simple, if elusive - in 9th-century China, Nie Yinniang is a young woman who was abducted in childhood from a decorated general and raised by a nun who trained her in the martial arts. After 13 years of exile, she is returned to the land of her birth as an exceptional assassin, with orders to kill her betrothed husband-to-be. She must confront her parents, her memories, and her long-repressed feelings in a choice to sacrifice the man she loves or break forever with the sacred way of the righteous assassins. Rich with shimmering, breathing texture and punctuated by brief but unforgettable bursts of action, The Assassin is a martial arts film like none made before it.

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