Movie "The Emperor and the Assassin" (1998)

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    Jing Ke ci Qin Wang

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    Runtime 2 hr 43 min
    Budget $15 000 000
    Premiere: World October 8, 1998
    Box Office – Budget – $13 732 761
    Premiere: USA $1 267 239 December 17, 1999
    theaters 37
    rollout 383 days
    Digital: World September 16, 2008
    Production Companies Beijing Film StudioLe Studio Canal+Nippon Film Development and Finance...New Wave CompanyShin Corporation
    Also Known As
    荆轲刺秦王 (China)

    Description

    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.

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    Plot

    The film covers much of Ying Zheng's career, recalling his early experiences as a hostage and foreshadowing his dominance over China. He is essentially depicted as an idealist seeking to impose a peace or unity on the world. However, his experiencing of various betrayals and losses slowly turn him into a mad tyrant. The story consists of three main incidents: the attempt by Jing Ke to assassinate Ying Zheng in 227 BCE; the (fictitious) rumour of a Chief Minister's having sired the latter before transferring his concubine to become the Queen Dowager; and the story of an official having sired children by the Queen Dowager herself. The first incident is the climax of the film, with earlier scenes foreshadowing it; the other two incidents occur between the fictional genesis and historical manifestation of the first.

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