THE EMPEROR AND THE
ASSASSIN aka JING KE CI QIN WANG

Year: 1999
UK: Columbia Pictures
Cast: Li Gong, Fengyi Zhang, Xuejian Li, Zhou Sun, Zhiwen Wang, Xiaohe Lu, Kaige Chen, Yongfei Gu, Benshan Zhao, Changjiang Pan, Haifeng Ding, Xun Zhou, Jiao Huang, Shuet Kin Lee, Li Xuejian
Director: Kaige Chen
Countries: China / France / Japan
Language: Mandarin (English subtitles)
UK: 161 mins
UK Certificate: 12 for moderate violence and horror
UK Release Date: 21 July 2000


Synopsis

An epic and the most expensive Asian film made to date, THE EMPEROR AND THE ASSASSIN is set in the complex world of China's late third century. Ying Zheng, King of Qin (Xuejian Li) and his concubine, Lady Zhao (Li Gong) want to unify rival states by staging and controlling an assassination that will convince Ying Zheng's rivals he is invincible.