"The Flying Guillotine"
About This Film
Director: Hoh Mung Wa (Ho Meng-Hua)
Producer: Runme Shaw
Choreography: Hsu Erh-Niu
Plot: Chen Kuan-Tai plays the leader of a group of killers, commissioned by the Ching Emperor to use a deadly beheading weapon to assassinate dissidents.
Overview:
A paranoid emperor wants to rid his cabinet of all subversive ministers. He employs his security chief Ku Feng to form an assassination squad specializing in the use of the deadly head-lopping weapon, the Flying Guillotine!
When a fellow officer, Wong Yue, is exeecuted for refusing to carry out orders, the leader of the death Squad, Ma (Chen Kuan Tai), decides to make a run for it and settles down in the country where he starts a family. However, his past soon catches up with him so Ma has to invent a new weapon to deal with the might of the guillotine-lobbing skills of the King's loyal warriors. A true classic in every sense, delivered in true Shaw Brothers style.
Cast: Chen Kuan Tai, Guk Fung (Ku Feng), Wai Wang (Frankie Wei Hung), Kong Yeung (Chiang Yang), Liu Wu Chi, Ai Ti, Lin Wei-Tu, Wang Yu, Li Peng-Fei, Li Shou-Chi, Lu Wei, Lin Feng, Shen Lao, Chiang Ling, Wu Chin-Chin, Hsu Kuan-Ying, Lei Lung, Ho Han-Chou
Running Time: 101 mins. (approx.)
Languages: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 - Stereo - Dual Mono)
Subtitles: None
Distributor: PanMedia [A USA-Based Distributor]
Features: Anamorphic Widescreen 2.35:1 (OAR) Mono Trailers
Released: 1975 [Hong Kong]
Producer: Runme Shaw
Choreography: Hsu Erh-Niu
Plot: Chen Kuan-Tai plays the leader of a group of killers, commissioned by the Ching Emperor to use a deadly beheading weapon to assassinate dissidents.
Overview:
A paranoid emperor wants to rid his cabinet of all subversive ministers. He employs his security chief Ku Feng to form an assassination squad specializing in the use of the deadly head-lopping weapon, the Flying Guillotine!
When a fellow officer, Wong Yue, is exeecuted for refusing to carry out orders, the leader of the death Squad, Ma (Chen Kuan Tai), decides to make a run for it and settles down in the country where he starts a family. However, his past soon catches up with him so Ma has to invent a new weapon to deal with the might of the guillotine-lobbing skills of the King's loyal warriors. A true classic in every sense, delivered in true Shaw Brothers style.
Cast: Chen Kuan Tai, Guk Fung (Ku Feng), Wai Wang (Frankie Wei Hung), Kong Yeung (Chiang Yang), Liu Wu Chi, Ai Ti, Lin Wei-Tu, Wang Yu, Li Peng-Fei, Li Shou-Chi, Lu Wei, Lin Feng, Shen Lao, Chiang Ling, Wu Chin-Chin, Hsu Kuan-Ying, Lei Lung, Ho Han-Chou
Running Time: 101 mins. (approx.)
Languages: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 - Stereo - Dual Mono)
Subtitles: None
Distributor: PanMedia [A USA-Based Distributor]
Features: Anamorphic Widescreen 2.35:1 (OAR) Mono Trailers
Released: 1975 [Hong Kong]
