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From the acclaimed director of Farewell, My Concubine comes THE EMPEROR AND THE ASSASSIN a visually stunning epic, exploring the devastating price one country pays for peace and one man pays for power. Ying Zheng, the King of Qin, has one driving ambition: to unify China's seven kingdoms into one magnificent empire. Impressed by her lover's convictions, Lady Zhao (Gong Li) helps Ying Zheng concoct an assassination plot that would justify the conquest of Qin's most powerful enemy. When Ying Zheng's peaceful mission explodes into a brutal holocaust, a disillusioned Lady Zhao is forced to question her loyalty and her lover's destiny.
Original Release
10/08/1998
US Release
12/17/1999
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Gong Li | Lady Zhao |
Fengyi Zhang | Jing Ke / Jing Ke the assassin |
Zhou Sun | Dan, Prince of Yan |
Xiaohe Lü | General Fan Yuqi |
Zhiwen Wang | Marquis Changxin |
Yongfei Gu | Queen Mother |
Benshan Zhao | Gao Jianli |
Haifeng Ding | Qin Wuyang |
Changjiang Pan | Prison Official |
Xun Zhou | Blind Girl |
Directors
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Gong Li | Lady Zhao |
Fengyi Zhang | Jing Ke / Jing Ke the assassin |
Zhou Sun | Dan, Prince of Yan |
Xiaohe Lü | General Fan Yuqi |
Zhiwen Wang | Marquis Changxin |
Yongfei Gu | Queen Mother |
Benshan Zhao | Gao Jianli |
Haifeng Ding | Qin Wuyang |
Changjiang Pan | Prison Official |
Xun Zhou | Blind Girl |
Xu Chu | 10 State warrior |
Dong Han | Qin cart driver |
Bing Lin | 10 State warrior |
Bo Liu | 10 State warrior |
Jiacheng Liu | 10 State warrior |
Liang Liu | 10 State warrior |
Zhi Qi | Assassin |
Kaige Chen | Lu Buwei / Lu Buwei Prime Minister |
Qiang Li | |
Subramanian S. Iyer | Ying Zheng / Ying Zheng King of Qin First Emperor |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Hiromitsu Furukawa | Executive Producer |
Sanping Han | Executive Producer |
Tsuguhiko Kadokawa | Executive Producer |
Kaige Chen | Producer |
Yu Bai | Producer |
Satoru Iseki | Producer |
Shirley Kao | Producer |
Philip Lee | Producer |
Sunmin Park | Producer |
Xia Zhang | Producer |