Taiwanese master Hou Hsiao-hsien reunites with his Millennium Mambo and Three Times star Shu Qi for the sublime The Assassin. This historical wuxia finds Shu’s enigmatic woman knight returning from exile and torn between love and duty. An elliptical, enchanting experience.

Once the darling of the art-film world, Jiang Wen set the local box office ablaze with this rip-roaring action spectacular. With a star-studded cast headlined by Chow Yun Fat, Let the Bullets Fly takes to the boondocks of 1920s China for a gleefully madcap, elaborately political genre mash-up.