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The Emperor and the Assassin (荊柯刺秦王) is a 1999 Chinese culture|Chinese historical romance film made in the People's Republic of China. The movie was directed by Chen Kaige and stars Gong Li, Zhang Fengyi, Li Xuejian, and Zhou Xun. The common transliteration of the film's Chinese title is "Jing ke ci qin wang". The movie was very well received critically and won the Technical Prize at the Cannes film festival in 1999. spoiler In China, during the Warring States era, the king of the Qin (state)|State of Qin (Li Xuejian), later known as Qin Shi Huang, will stop at nothing to become emperor. To conquer the Yan (state)|State of Yan he sends Lady Zhao (Gong Li), his concubine, to find Jing Ke (Zhang Fengyi), a skilled swordsman and assassin for hire. When the time arrives, the king would kill him instead, so he can get a reason to invade Yan. During the process, Lady Zhao falls in love with Jing Ke and her feelings for the king of Qin turn into hatred after he destroyed her homeland, leading her and Jing Ke to plan to actually assassinate the king.
Category:1999 films|Emperor and the Assassin, The Category:Chinese sword era films|Emperor and the Assassin, The sv:Kejsaren och m??rdaren This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "The Emperor and the Assassin".
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