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	The Emperor and the Assassin
		The climax of the movie is the confrontation between the assassin and the king, and between the king and Lady Zhao.
		The Emperor and the Assassin tells us the story of Ying Zheng (Li Xuejian), who unifies China (at least for a short time; his dynasty lasted only 15 years), his companion from early youth, Lady Zhao (Gong Li), and an assassin, Jing Ke (Zhang Fengyi), she hires in an elaborate plot to further Ying's ambition.
		Emperors and Assassins is unquestionably gorgeous and enigmatic, but it's useful to have heroes one can care about, all of whom are comfortably absconding from this flick.
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	The Emperor and the Assassin
		The Emperor and the Assassin is too limiting a title for the new film by Chinese fifth generation director Chen Kaige (that's pronouned kai-guh), the director who also gave us Temptress Moon and Farewell My Concubine.
		Emperor is yet another beautifully shot Chinese period piece, which also means that the female star is the woman with perfect skin, Gong Li (The Chinese Box, Shanghai Triad, and pretty much every other epic film to come out of China in the past decade).
		The Emperor and the Assassin is still better than many domestic films, but if you want to watch a large scale Chinese period piece, you may want to rent one of the earlier ones.
	www.haro-online.com /movies/emperor_and_the_assassin.html (503 words)

	The Illuminated Lantern - Asian Cinema Reviews: Emperor and the Assassin, The
		The Emperor and the Assassin retells one of the most famous tales in Chinese history -- Jing Ke, the assassin, and his failed attempt to take the life of the First Emperor.
		In The Emperor and the Assassin, what matters most, to most of the people, is not power, not love, not honor; but children.
		As a result, The Emperor and the Assassin is a movie filled with incredible moments, but the whole fails to equal the sum of its parts.
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	(The Emperor and The Assassin - Background/History)
		Ironically, it is the Emperor's brutal destruction of Zhao and the murdering of the children of Zhao that destroys the relationship between the Emperor and his lover.
		ing Zheng, the future 'First Emperor', was crowned King of Qin at the age of thirteen in 247 B.C. Ying Zheng governed the kingdom with an iron fist, creating a centralized government under his strict control and maintaining power through intimidation and a harshly enforced legal code.
		But his assassination attempt failed and, with his subsequent death, the relentless Qin army continued its deadly assault, engulfing the entire region until there was only one kingdom and only one king--Qin Shihuang.
	sonypictures.com /classics/emperorandassassin/background-content.html (2258 words)

	The Emperor and the Assassin (1999)
		A power-hungry Chinese emperor hatches a plot with his mistress to kill an heir to the throne, but she falls in love with their intended victim.
		Essentially, The Emperor and the Assassin is a two-guys-and-a-girl romantic melodrama set against the stunning backdrop of one of China's bloodiest ages.
		But despite the visual feast, The Emperor and the Assassin's plot is oddly unengaging — Kaige's handling of the human drama feels tired, as if he was too obsessed with the look of the film to be bothered with the story itself.
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	(The Emperor and The Assassin - Character Guide)
		In the story, the Emperor finally discovers that the Prime Minister (who he dismisses as a result of his benevolent attitude towards the Kingdom of Han) is in fact his real father.
		The Queen Mother and her son, the Emperor, enjoy good relations until the Emperor discovers he has two brothers, whose father is his court adversary and a conspirator, the Marquis.
		A childhood friend of the Emperor and Lady Zhao (he was also a hostage in the Kingdom of Zhao as a child) who eventually becomes a fierce rival of the Emperor.
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	The Emperor and the Assassin
		To do so he gets his concubine Zhao to act as a spy in the kingdom of Han, but she is diverted by falling in love with the assassin she is hires to kill Ying Zheng (who will be prepared for his attempt and kill him, thus making him appear a king who is unstoppable).
		The Emperor’s Imperial Secretariat and chief advisor was Li Si.
		Within four years, the Emperor was dead, the imperial palace and library were burned.
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	The Emperor And The Assassin
		Taking three years to film and even longer to research, 'The Emperor and the Assassin' could be regarded as one of the last true epics as no digital effects are used, thousands of extras were hired and a palace five times the size of the real Forbidden City was built especially for this film.
		Be warned however that 'The Emperor and the Assassin' is not an action film, nor is it meant to be.
		Overall, 'The Emperor and the Assassin' is a minor masterpiece and comes highly recommended, though it should be stated that this is not a film for everyone.
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	Metroactive Movies \| 'The Emperor and the Assassin'
		The Emperor and the Assassin is a huge epic, and this may be enough for the spectacle-hounds.
		Their confrontation is the marrow of the story, and Chen cuts tellingly between the assassin's frightful clowning on the point of the attack and the hurt in the ruler's eyes as he faces his would-be murderer.
		The Emperor and the Assassin (R; 160 min.), directed by Chen Kaige, written by Wang Peigong, photographed by Zhao Fei and starring Gong Li, Li Xuejian and Hang Fengyi, opens Friday at the Towne Theater in San Jose and Feb. 11 at the Park in Menlo Park.
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	The Emperor and the Assassin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Emperor and the Assassin (荊柯刺秦王) is a 1999 Chinese historical romance film made in the People's Republic of China.
		The movie was very well received critically and won the Technical Prize at the Cannes film festival in 1999.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Emperor_and_the_Assassin (331 words)

	Combustible Celluloid film review - The Emperor and the Assassin (1999), Chen Kaige, Gong Li, Zhang Fengyi, dvd review
		The Last Emperor follows Pu Yi, the last emperor of China, and The Emperor and the Assassin follows Ying Zheng, the first emperor of China--the man who unified its various small kingdoms to make one nation.
		The Emperor and the Assassin is more specifically Chinese, and less passive than Bertolucci's film.
		The Emperor and the Assassin attempts to wed both, and it succeeds.
	www.combustiblecelluloid.com /emperor.shtml (888 words)

	iFMagazine.com Reviews - Emperor and the Assassin
		THE EMPEROR AND THE ASSASSIN directed by Chen Kaige is an epic film about Ying Zheng (Li Xuejian) the first Emperor of China and the assassin who attempted to end his reign of terror.
		The assassin Jing Ke (Zhang Fegyi) is reminiscent of a retired gunfighter in a classic American Western.
		THE EMPEROR AND THE ASSASSIN has plenty of cinematic splendors particularly shots inside and outside of the various imperial palaces — some of which were built for the film — and the fabulously beautiful production and costume design.
	www.ifmagazine.com /review.asp?article=537 (648 words)

	DVD Review - The Emperor And The Assassin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		"The Emperor And The Assassin" is the name of the movie and with hauntingly beautiful images and a compelling story line that is comparable to the greatest and most epic historic monumental films most American viewers are more familiar with.
		But even with that in mind, "The Emperor And The Assassin" is a mesmerizing film full of character drama and a big evolving story of battle and bravery.
		Beautifully and atmospheric, the score for "The Emperor And The Assassin" is just as impressive, featuring big heroic themes and intricate orchestrations that perfectly support the overall experience of this movie.
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	1918 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		July 17 — By order of the Bolshevik Party and carried out by Cheka, Emperor Nicholas II of Russia, his immediate family, and retainers were murdered at the Ipatiev House in Ekaterinburg, Russia.
		November 11 — Emperor Charles I of Austria abdicates.
		April 28 - Gavrilo Princip, Assassin of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria (b.
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	Movie Review - Emperor and the Assassin, The - eFilmCritic
		Chen Kaige's "The Emperor and the Assassin" is an epic-length film with some breathtakingly filmed epic-sized battles and palace scenes...
		(The assassin, it turns out, is less monstrous than the emperor.) The emperor's terrifying, malicious invasion of Lady Zhao's homeland does little to help her change her mind.
		"The Emperor and the Assassin" just about succeeds at that, introducing subplots that may seem like tangents, but which all add to the ongoing theme of Ying Zheng's ruthlessness and Machiavellian attitude: He must unite China even if it means killing everyone in it.
	efilmcritic.com /review.php?movie=235&reviewer=119 (574 words)

	Political Film Society - The Emperor and the Assassin
		Proof that Yan wanted to assassinate the ruler of Ch'in would, she reasoned, would thus cause the people of Yan to accept peaceful merger with Ch'in without provoking the southern kingdoms to unite against the Ch'in juggernaut.
		When she arrives, it is too late; the people of Zhou, including children buried alive, consist of corpses in a scene reminiscent of the field of the dead in Sergei Eisenstein's Alexandr Nevsky.
		However, the idea that brutal war will bring about the good life also calls to mind not only certain Shakespearean plots, which the director had in mind, but also Plutarch's Cyneas, who noted that the good life could be obtained far more quickly if megalomaniacs would jettison their grandiose military ambitions.
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	Emperor and the Assassin
		During Ying Zheng's lifetime there would be three assassination attempts, one of the assassins being Jing Ke.
		The problem with this is that it romanticizes the bourgeois and underworld lifestyle of the residents in Shanghai and the main characters are a rich landlord owner and a gangster, not very politically "class-correct" films.
		In Emperor and the Assassin this is no different as the character King Ying Zheng spout ruling class rhetoric such as bringing peace to the common people by conquering the other states.
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	The Emperor and the Assassin (1998)
		Gong Li and Li Xuejian in The Emperor and the Assassin.
		The Emperor and the Assassin is epic in scope and much more historically relevant than the Chinese government may believe.
		The film is structured into five acts which lay the groundwork for the final part in which the reluctant assassin Jing Ke plots to kill Ying Zheng.
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	SPLICEDwire \| "The Emperor and the Assassin" review (2000)
		An ambitious historical epic of espionage, artifice and combat in the imperial courts of ancient China, "The Emperor and the Assassin" vividly fictionalizes the brutal, third Century B.C. unification of that nation by the psychologically unstable King of Qin (Li Xuejian), the most powerful of the region's of seven kingdoms.
		The picture is saturated with symbolism and sumptuously filmed with choreographed horse-and-chariot battle sequences, elegant but simple cultural costumes, and an unforgettably imposing scene of the coup attempt, which ends with the Marquis and his followers being outnumbered, out-maneuvered and subsequently massacred by the King's guard on the vast steps of the spectacular palace.
		Once the intrigue finally gets rolling, "The Emperor and the Assassin" might really engross anyone who is still awake, but it's still too much to digest in one sitting.
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	(The Emperor and The Assassin - Production Notes)
		n assassin who made his living by killing others was able to recognize the wrong in killing through the power of love and rise against tyranny by sacrificing his own life.
		For the making of THE EMPEROR AND THE ASSASSIN, the Xianyang palace was reconstructed in its entirety in the city of Dongyang in Zhenjiang province.
		THE EMPEROR AND THE ASSASSIN'S costumes are the culmination of four years of continuous labor and the pinnacle of Mo Xiaomin's celebrated twenty year career as a designer.
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	The emperor and the assassin - CIA
		The emperor and the assassin (Jing ke ci qin wang)
		Once in Han, and together with the king, Zhao will find an assassin, who will be sent to kill Ying, but Ying will be prepared for the assassin's onslaught, and in defending himself, will be considered unstoppable.
		Struck by his subtle demeanour and able swordsmanship, Zhao approaches Jing Ke about becoming the assassin for whom she has been looking and begins a campaign to convince him to kill Ying, using all her powers of persuasion.
	www.thecia.com.au /reviews/e/emperor-and-the-assasin.shtml (590 words)

	'The Emperor and the Assassin': A Bloodthirsty Unification of China
		In one scene of mass slaughter, a large rebel army is caught by surprise in front of the emperor's palace, surrounded and methodically mowed down by an opposing army of royal archers who leave behind a staggering pile of carnage.
		By the end of the movie, the emperor has betrayed her so completely that he is left standing alone and friendless in the mess he has made, rather like a third-century B.C. Michael Corleone.
		It is Lady Zhao who concocts a devious plan to unite the populace behind the emperor by arranging a bogus assassination attempt that will justify his invasion of the neighboring kingdom of Yan.
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	Emperor and the Assassin, The (1999): Reviews
		This leads to a silly love triangle, and then when Emperor Chin goes from bad to worse, the plot piles up into something like a tossed bowl full of court intrigues, assassination plot, betrayals more numerous than all the people in China, and so on until it resembles some bad Chinese cooking made with leftovers.
		The role of Emperor is filled by some squeaky voiced twerp and the assassin guy looks like he'd rather star in a Hong Kong movie.
		One genuinely great scene involves Emperor Chin confronting his true father, and the revelation suggests how even this powerful ruthless man is a victim of forces beyond his control, not only a tyrant but a cowering, lonely little man.
	www.metacritic.com /video/titles/emperorandtheassassin (812 words)

	MetroActive Movies \| 'The Emperor and the Assassin'
		DIRECTOR Chen Kaige's overstuffed opus The Emperor and the Assassin proposes that a Freudian trauma drove the king of Qin, Ying Zheng (Li Xuejian), to unite the six warring kingdoms of ancient China into one empire.
		Ying Zheng figures that if one of the nations he plans to absorb were to send an assassin after him, it would be a pretext for a declaration of war.
		The Emperor and the Assassin contains five episodes in three hours, and you feel that length, especially during the soap-operatic third episode, when the king confronts the truth of his parentage.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/sonoma/03.09.00/emperor-0010.html (554 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Emperor and the Assassin at Epinions.com
		His nemesis, Jing Ke (the "assassin" of the title), is likewise a riddle: a master assassin who has sworn not to kill.
		He portrays both the inner conscience of the king as well as his cold ruthlessness, as his character descends from a man that is essentially good to one that is nothing but an empty shell.
		"The Emperor and the Assassin," while quite a bit grander in scope than "Farewell My Concubine," is just as much a story of three characters helplessly mired in the political landscape of their time.
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