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Back with his first film in eight years, legendary Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien wowed this year’s Cannes Film Festival (where he won Best Director). In 9th-century China, a young woman is abducted in childhood from a decorated general and raised by a nun who trains her in the martial arts. After 13 years of exile, she is returned to the land of her birth as an exceptional assassin, with orders to kill her betrothed husband-to-be.