Synopsis

The Emperor and the Assassin (1998)

In pre-unified China, the King of Qin sends his concubine to a rival kingdom to produce an assassin for a political plot, but as the king’s cruelty mounts she finds her loyalty faltering.
Chen Kaige
Gong Li, Zhang Fengyi, Sun Zhou, Xiaohe Lü, Wang ZhiWen, Chen Kaige, Yongfei Gu, Benshan Zhao, Haifeng Ding, Pan Chang-Jiang, Zhou Xun, Li Xuejian
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