{"id":10478,"date":"2016-02-18T06:51:26","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T05:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/culturedarm.com\/?p=10478"},"modified":"2021-05-17T14:13:45","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T12:13:45","slug":"the-assassin-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/the-assassin-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"The Assassin (2015)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Assassin-7.jpg?ssl=1\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10830\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10830\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Assassin-7.jpg?resize=696%2C465&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"The Assassin 7\" width=\"696\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Assassin-7.jpg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Assassin-7.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Assassin-7.jpg?resize=768%2C513&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Assassin-7.jpg?resize=1024%2C684&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Assassin-7.jpg?resize=370%2C247&amp;ssl=1 370w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Assassin-7.jpg?resize=570%2C380&amp;ssl=1 570w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Assassin-7.jpg?resize=770%2C514&amp;ssl=1 770w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Assassin-7.jpg?resize=1170%2C781&amp;ssl=1 1170w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Assassin-7.jpg?resize=869%2C580&amp;ssl=1 869w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Assassin-7.jpg?resize=270%2C180&amp;ssl=1 270w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><\/a><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">The Assassin (\u523a\u5ba2\u8076\u96b1\u5a18)<\/h3>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Martial Arts | 105 Minutes | 2015 | Taiwan\/China\/Hong Kong<\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><i class=\"fas fa-star\"><\/i><\/strong><strong><i class=\"fas fa-star\"><\/i><\/strong><strong><i class=\"fas fa-star\"><\/i><\/strong><strong><i class=\"fas fa-star\"><\/i> (4\/4)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Director: Hou Hsiao-hsien | Writers: Hou Hsiao-hsien, Chu T&#8217;ien-wen, Hsieh Hai-Meng, Ah Cheng | Starring: Shu Qi, Chang Chen, Zhou Yun, Satoshi Tsumabuki, Fang-Yi Sheu | Music: Lim Giong | Cinematography: Mark Lee Ping Bin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In 9th century China, the weakened\u00a0Tang Dynasty struggles\u00a0to retain control over its militarised province of Weibo.\u00a0Nie Yinniang (Shu Qi) has been trained by the nun Jiaxin (Fang-Yi Sheu) to assassinate corrupt government officials, but though she possesses all of the art, she cannot bring herself\u00a0to kill a man as he sits cradling his sleeping son. So Jiaxin, who has raised Yinniang from the age of ten, sets her charge a more personal task: Yinniang is to return to her home of Weibo, and after\u00a0first slaying everyone he loves, must kill\u00a0the military governor Tian Ji&#8217;an (Chang Chen), who is also her\u00a0cousin and was once her betrothed.<\/p>\n<p>The prologue to Hou Hsiao-hsien&#8217;s <em>The Assassin<\/em> is shot in high-contrast black and white, while the body of the film abounds in sumptuous colour, the accentuated greens, blues, creams, reds, and oranges of the Weibo court\u00a0interspersed with silvery morning mists and forest birches. But against Hou and Mark Lee Ping Bin&#8217;s meticulous cinematography, which lingers over scenes of courtly intimacy and makes pillows out of a complaisant nature, moving always with a steady grace, the narrative of <em>The Assassin<\/em> flickers with dim lights, and we have to peer carefully if we are to discern the details.<\/p>\n<p>We understand that Yinniang was sent away from Weibo when a more politically advantageous marriage was presented to Tian&#8217;s\u00a0mother, who also happens to be the twin sister of Jiaxin &#8211; but\u00a0the tenor of the relationship between these two matriarchal princesses remains unspecified, and other connections flow as currents in a plot which we struggle to grasp or locate. Tian has made his mistress pregnant, but cursed by\u00a0black magic she\u00a0miscarries. Have the princesses been pulling the strings,\u00a0whether desiring to serve justice to the corrupt, or to preserve an increasingly tenuous balance of power?<\/p>\n<p>These hazy lines are perfectly attuned to\u00a0the atmosphere of this intoxicating film, which seduces by means of\u00a0its slow pace, visual splendour, and period detail. The fight scenes, relatively sparse across the film&#8217;s hour and forty-five minutes, are exquisitely choreographed, and play out as inevitable acts: sinuous extensions of the body, expressions of learning and skill that might shift the course of history, but which nevertheless merely trim at the edges of what is psychologically profound.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Assassin<\/em> is loosely adapted from the 9th century short story &#8216;Nie Yinniang&#8217; by Pei Xing, an early instance of the wuxia genre which depicts the adventures of martial artists in ancient China, and especially rare for portraying\u00a0a female protagonist.\u00a0Hou Hsiao-Hsien&#8217;s first feature since the French-Taiwanese <em>Flight of the Red Balloon<\/em> in 2007, it saw the veteran Taiwanese New Wave director collaborating\u00a0for the first time inside China, with filming\u00a0taking place across the Hubei province, Inner Mongolia, and the country&#8217;s north-east. Hou won Best Director at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival for <em>The Assassin<\/em>, while the Cannes Soundtrack Award went to Lim Giong for his score, emerging through pulsing drums and delicate zither.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sc-separator type-thin\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Assassin-1.jpg?ssl=1\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10828\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-10828 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Assassin-1.jpg?resize=696%2C1032&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"The Assassin 1\" width=\"696\" height=\"1032\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Assassin-1.jpg?w=1382&amp;ssl=1 1382w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Assassin-1.jpg?resize=202%2C300&amp;ssl=1 202w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Assassin-1.jpg?resize=768%2C1138&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Assassin-1.jpg?resize=691%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 691w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Assassin-1.jpg?resize=370%2C548&amp;ssl=1 370w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Assassin-1.jpg?resize=770%2C1141&amp;ssl=1 770w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Assassin-1.jpg?resize=1170%2C1734&amp;ssl=1 1170w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-Assassin-1.jpg?resize=391%2C580&amp;ssl=1 391w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605 (4 out of 4 stars) &#8211; In 9th century China, the weakened\u00a0Tang Dynasty struggles\u00a0to retain control over its militarised province of Weibo.\u00a0Nie Yinniang (Shu Qi) has been trained by the nun Jiaxin (Fang-Yi Sheu) to assassinate corrupt government officials, but though she possesses all of the art, she cannot bring herself\u00a0to kill a man as he sits cradling his sleeping son. So Jiaxin, who has raised Yinniang from the age of ten, sets her charge a more personal 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