Jenkins replied that he watched [The Assassin] with his cinematographer James Laxton, and they studied how Hou would break a scene into four or five different shots. The director was particularly fascinated by the way Hou used foregrounds and midgrounds to create depth and frame characters.
He cites the work of Andrei Tarkovsky, Theo Angelopoulos, and Hou Hsiao-Hsien as influences, particularly praising Hou's 2015 masterpiece, 'The Assassin.'
— Bi Gan · IndieWire
Films That Influenced The Assassin
