The Emperor and the Assassin (1998)

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.

Director: Kaige Chen

Cast: Gong Li, Fengyi Zhang, Zhou Sun, Xiaohe Lü, Zhiwen Wang, Kaige Chen, Yongfei Gu, Benshan Zhao, Haifeng Ding, Changjiang Pan, Xun Zhou, Li Xuejian, Xu Chu, Dong Han, Bing Lin, Bo Liu, Jiacheng Liu, Liang Liu