Legendary Taiwanese director
Hou Hsiao-hsien
wowed this year's Cannes
Film Festival (where he won Best Director) with his awe-inspiring THE
ASSASSIN. 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 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.