The Assassin

Year: 1993

Runtime: 78 mins

Language: Cantonese

Director: Billy Chung Siu-Hung

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After a forbidden love pushes him from the fields, the farmer turns to mercenary work, eventually serving a local warlord as a professional assassin. When he encounters his former lover years later, he is forced to confront the brutality of his past and reflect on the bloodshed he has wrought.

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