The Assassins (2012)

COMING SOON: Zhao Linshan's The Assassins (China, 2012) - Chow Yun-fat has been ageing gracefully in the past decade, and the Hong Kong star once again lends his bearded imperial impression to the generically titled The Assassins, the latest in a long line of movies that took a chapter out of the transitional period (around 220 AD) between China’s Han Dynasty and Three Kingdoms era, which is known throughout the Chinese-speaking world with its romanticised version, the classic novel Romance of the Three Kingdom, and its countless screen adaptations, with John Woo’s two-part Red Cliff among the most notable.