Nie yin niang
Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, 2015
Mandarin with Czech subtitles
Director: Hsiao-Hsien Hou
Starring: Qi Shu, Chen Chang, Yun Zhou, Satoshi Tsumabuki
Distributor: Film Europe
Set in 9th century China, this film poem is a visually stunning tale with elements of the wuxia genre (Chinese equivalent of the medieval chivalric epic with elements of fantasy) from one of the greatest filmmakers of the current era. Nie Yinnian (Shu Qi) is a professional assassin. One day, having failed in a task, she is ordered by her mistress to return to the place of her birth and kill the man to whom she was once promised – her cousin who leads the biggest military region in North China.