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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘My Dearest Assassin’ on Netflix, An Amalgamation of Asian Romance and Martial Arts

Decider·John Serba·25 days ago
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Published May 7, 2026, 7:15 p.m. ET Thailand’s My Dearest Assassin (now streaming on Netflix) squishes together two titan genres of Southeast Asian cinema: romance and martial arts. Pimchanok Luevisadpaibul, Thanapo Leeratanakachorn and Sivakorn Adulsuttikul play a love triangle of asskickers in this neo-chopsocky melodrama directed by Taweewat Wantha (the Death Whisperer films) – and the result is, well, mixed, torn between two styles without fully committing to either. MY DEAREST ASSASSIN : STREAM IT OR SKIP IT?  The Gist: It’s called “aurum blood.” In this reality, it’s the rarest blood type in the world, so rich and powerful people with aurum blood need other aurum blood-havers as a backup supply the likes of which can’t be obtained at the local hospital.…

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