RATINGS
IMDB
7.2
Metacritic
75
The Emperor and the Assassin(1998)
221 B.C. unification of China
Romance
RUNTIME
162 min
AGE RATING
R
COUNTRY
China
LANGUAGE
Mandarin
DIRECTOR
Kaige Chen
CAST
Li Gong, Fengyi Zhang, Zhou Sun, Xiaohe Lü
Plot
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.