Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 162 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- Chinese
- Country
- China, France, Japan
- Violence
- Strong
Why tonight?
- A long one. Start it early, and give it the whole evening.
- It goes hard on violence — not a wind-down.
- In Chinese — subtitles on.
The story
In pre-unified China, the King of Qin sends his concubine to a rival kingdom to produce an assassin for a political plot, but as the king's cruelty mounts she finds her loyalty faltering.
- assassin
- china
- kingdom
- occupying power
- governance
- concubine
- warring states period
- 3rd century bc
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Sun Zhou — Prince Yan Dan
- Chen Kaige — Lu Buwei
- Pan Changjiang — Prison Official
- Zhao Benshan — Gao Jianli
- Ding Haifeng — Qin Wuyang
- Zhou Xun — Blind Girl
- Lü Xiaohe — General Fan Yuqi
- Kong Qinsan — Liang Shi
- Gu Yongfei — Queen Mother
- Li Qiang — Han Shi
- Li Hongtao — Li Si
- Directed
- Chen Kaige
- Written
- Chen Kaige, Wang Peigong
Production
- Rating
- 6.9 / 10 · 87 ratings
- Studio
- Hahn Shin Corporation, Le Studio Canal+
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
