The Emperor and the Assassin
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10/8/1998Runtime
162 minsOverview
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.
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A sweeping, formally composed historical drama where political intrigue and intimate human connection collide, a concubine caught between the king's ruthless ambitions and her own awakening conscience watches her world fracture across three hours of deliberate, visually arresting cinema.
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