1976 · action · martial-arts
Master of the Flying Guillotine (1976)
Directed by Jimmy Wang Yu1h 33m1976
A one-armed martial arts master is being stalked by an Imperial assassin, the master of two fighters killed in the previous film. When the One-Armed Boxer is invited to attend a martial arts tournament, his efforts to lay low are unsuccessful, and the assassin soon tracks him down with the help of his three subordinates: a Thai boxer, a yoga master, and a kobojutsu user.
Our read: Master of the Flying Guillotine (1976) (1976) reads as a neutral, breathless, inventive action · martial-arts entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, extreme action / martial-arts, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
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