This film follows a dialogue between a king, later revealed to be Qin Shi Huang, and a nameless hero. Nameless is an officer of the law who has killed two conspirators against the king's life, Long Sky and Flying Snow. He claims to have eliminated a third, called Broken Sword. The king has invited Nameless to speak with him, both as a reward and to find out more about the conspiracy. But the information Nameless and the king review about the conspiracy starts to contradict itself. Conflict emerges not just between Nameless and the king, but between the conspirators regarding what they should do. Originally, Sky, Snow, and Sword all wanted to assassinate the king, but at some point Sword changed his mind. The reason why he did this, and the inability of the other conspirators to accept his decision, are at the core of why the stories unravel. The fights in Hero are often more like ritual than conflict. Many wuxia films portray ...
"We are in the world, not against it." - Ursula K. Le Guin