The Assassin
Written By Cheng Ah, T’ien-wen Chu, Hsiao-Hien Hou, Hai-Meng Hsieh and Xing Pei
Directed by Hsiao-Hsien Hou
Taiwan/China/Hong Kong/France, 2015
It’s a tad misleading to define Hsiao-Hsien Hou’s The Assassin as a martial arts movie. Sure, there are moments of intense fighting by people who look like they’re trained in that form of combat, but they are truly moments. Cinema is rife with martial arts films that insist on obscenely elaborate fight scenes that are thrilling at the time but ultimately aren’t as memorable as they’re meant to be. Hou decides to go a slightly different route with the genre. Instead of giving the fight scenes the attention, he wants the audience to watch everything else.
Set in in China during the Tang Dynasty era, the film focuses on Nie Yinniang, a young woman returning to her hometown after years of banishment.
Written By Cheng Ah, T’ien-wen Chu, Hsiao-Hien Hou, Hai-Meng Hsieh and Xing Pei
Directed by Hsiao-Hsien Hou
Taiwan/China/Hong Kong/France, 2015
It’s a tad misleading to define Hsiao-Hsien Hou’s The Assassin as a martial arts movie. Sure, there are moments of intense fighting by people who look like they’re trained in that form of combat, but they are truly moments. Cinema is rife with martial arts films that insist on obscenely elaborate fight scenes that are thrilling at the time but ultimately aren’t as memorable as they’re meant to be. Hou decides to go a slightly different route with the genre. Instead of giving the fight scenes the attention, he wants the audience to watch everything else.
Set in in China during the Tang Dynasty era, the film focuses on Nie Yinniang, a young woman returning to her hometown after years of banishment.
- 10/13/2015
- by Sarah Pearce Lord
- SoundOnSight
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