Du bi quan wang da po xue di zi (1975)

User Rating:

7.5/10   

Director:

Yu Wang

Writer:

Yu Wang (screenplay)

Release Date:

February 1977 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Fantasy

Tagline:

It's A Mean Machine - Cuts Your Head Off Clean!

Plot:

The one-armed boxer is stalked by a vengeful flying guillotine expert, after his disciples were killed in the first 'One-Armed Boxer' film...

Plot Keywords:

Guillotine | Martial Arts | Flying Guillotine | One Armed Man | Decapitation

Cast

Yu Wang	...	Liu Ti Lung, The One-Armed Boxer
Kang Chin	...	Fung Sheng Wu Chi
Chung-erh Lung	...	Wu Shao-tieh (as Kun Yee Lung)
Chia Yung Liu	...	Chang Chia Yu (as Kar Wing Lau)
Lung Wei Wang	...	Win-Without-a-Knife Yakuma (as Lung Wang)
Tsim Po Sham	...	Nai Men
Fei Lung	...	Win-Without-a-Knife Yakuma Jiro
Fu Chiang Chi
Pai Cheng Hau	...	Master Wu
Ming Fei Wang
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Tak Chi Chen
Alan Chui Chung San		(as Chung Hei Chui)
Tien Wu Chu
Wai Hung Ho
Han Hsieh	...	Referee
Hsing Hsieh
Philip Kwok
Jack Long	...	Wang Chiang
Fong Lung	...	Wu Chang-sheng (as Li Chien Min)
Mao Shan
Kao Shan Shao
Ting Ken Shih
Jung Chi Sun
Robert Tai
Kun Chang Teng
Chiang Wang
Tie Lang Wang	...	Monkey Boxer
Wing Sheng Wang	...	Yoga Master
Sung Chao Yu

Directed by
Yu Wang		(as Jimmy Wang Yu)

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Yu Wang		screenplay (as Jimmy Wang Yu)

Produced by
Cheuk Hon Wong	....	producer

Original Music by
Hsun Chi Chen

Cinematography by
Yao Hu Chiu

Film Editing by
Ting Hung Kuo

Production Design by
Kang Hing Chao

Costume Design by
Chao Ken

Makeup Department
Yu Chen Chao	....	makeup artist
Yuan Chun Yu	....	hair stylist

Production Management
Hsi Fan Chan	....	production manager
Fung Wang	....	production manager

Sound Department
Su Yen Hsi	....	sound effects
Hu Kuang	....	sound recordist
Yu Ping Liang	....	sound effects

Camera and Electrical Department
Yun Lung Niu	....	assistant lighting technician
Huai Chen Pai	....	lighting technician
Chang Li Wang	....	assistant camera

Other crew
Chia-Liang Liu	....	fighting choreographer (as Lau Ka Liang)
Chia Yung Liu	....	fight choreographer (as Ka Wing Lau)
Kuang Chi Lo	....	stage supervisor
Yi Wang	....	arts

Production Companies

• First Film Organisation Ltd.

Distributors

• First Distributors (1975) (worldwide) (all media)
• In-Frame Films (1977) (USA) (theatrical) (dubbed)
• JVI (1982) (UK) (VHS) (as Master of the Flying Guillotine)
• Sinister Cinema (1993) (USA) (VHS)
• Cinema Epoch (2001) (USA) (all media) (co-distributor)
• Pathfinder Pictures (2002) (USA) (DVD)
• Pathfinder Pictures (2002) (USA) (VHS)
• Pathfinder Pictures (2004) (USA) (DVD)
• Filmax Home Video (2005) (Spain) (DVD)
• Phaedra Cinema (????) (USA) (VHS)

Also Known As:

Master of the Flying Guillotine (International: English title)
One-Armed Boxer II (UK)
The One Armed Boxer vs. the Flying Guillotine (Hong Kong: English title)

Runtime:

93 min | USA:81 min

Country:

Taiwan | Hong Kong

Language:

Mandarin

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

UK:X (cut) (1977) | Australia:M | USA:R | Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Canada:R (Ontario)

Company:

First Film Organisation Ltd.

Trivia:

Most or all music featuring in the film was used without permission of copyright holders (when the film was first released).

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: When the one-armed snake-fist contestant is on the ground fending off his opponent during the tournament, his "missing" hand is visible.

Quotes:

Referee: Take the loser away...

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura (2001) (VG)

Soundtrack:

Kometenmelodie 2

BELIEVE IT OR NOT,THIS IS A SEQUEL.

Not a film ever likely to make its way into the A.F.I. top 100 this is a quintessential martial arts movie from 1970's Hong Kong in the post Bruce Lee years.The plot which could hardly be called derivative is about a maniac who is seeking revenge for the loss of a loved one at the hands of a one-armed man.No Richard Kimble he,this genius decides the best way to achieve justice is to kill every one-armed man in China by use of a guillotine attached to the end of a rope.As anyone would!He meets his match at the hands of the movie's director and star Jimmy Wang Yu who played the same part in the earlier "THE ONE ARMED BOXER" which explained how our hero became deficient in the upper limb department.Before these two screaming,screeching antagonists meet at the climax in a fight that lasts about 45 minutes we are treated to a ludicrously prolonged tournament sequence where each contestant is more bizarre than the one before and includes a Hindu who can stretch his arms out yards like a cartoon superhero.This guy is no masterpiece of special effects and seems to have stilts up his sleeves."FLYING GUILLOTINE" is typical of a Wang Yu movie;he was H.K's numero uno Kung Fu star before Bruce Lee came along and disguised his unspectacular fighting style with outlandish plots and gimmicks that usually saw him take on legions of opponents at a time whilst losing body parts at a rate of knots.If you have a stomach for this sort of thing and I am delighted to say that I have;this is as good a way as any of spending 80 minutes of your allotted life span.