Billy Chung Siu-Hung
Director
The Assassin (1993)
A poor farmer who loves a woman he is forbidden to associate with becomes a hardened mercenary, and is hired by a local warlord as a professional assassin. Years later, he runs into his old love and begins to question his violent past
Keywords: imdb.assassin, imdb.torture, imdb.brutality, imdb.monk, imdb.massacre, imdb.dildo, imdb.sex + 35 more, imdb.eunuch, imdb.concubine, imdb.heart-in-hand, imdb.heart-ripped-out, imdb.wuxia, imdb.slashing, imdb.violence, imdb.stabbed-in-the-chest, imdb.sword-throwing, imdb.stabbed-in-the-back, imdb.stabbed-in-the-throat, imdb.stabbed-in-the-stomach, imdb.evil-man, imdb.bodily-dismemberment, imdb.head-cut-off, imdb.body-torn-apart, imdb.sliced-in-two, imdb.hand-through-chest, imdb.torso-cut-in-half, imdb.killed-with-a-sword, imdb.severed-head, imdb.arm-ripped-off, imdb.arm-cut-off, imdb.leg-cut-off, imdb.split-in-two, imdb.severed-leg, imdb.severed-arm, imdb.gore, imdb.sword-fight, imdb.eyes-sewn-shut, imdb.based-on-novel, imdb.woman, imdb.poverty, aspectratio.1-85-1, mdblist.has-trailer
Country: Hong Kong
Production Country:
Hong Kong
Languages:
Cantonese,
Mandarin
Recommendations
Runtime: 78 min.
Released: Sept. 23, 1993
Status: Released
Certification: NR / 18+