director:
Gang Cheng & Shan Hua
starring: Ti Lung · Lieh Lo · Chun Tin Se · Lao Shen
Ku Feng · Wang Chung · Szu Shih
Han Chen Wang · Chih-Ching Yang
Wang Wai · Nan Hsi Yen
(Shaw Brothers
Production) More decapitations than the first entry, The Flying Guillotine,
plus Ti Lung in a terrific performance. This sequel is a rarity... better
in almost every way from the Ho Menga original. The film offers far more
martial arts sequences this time around and is all the more entertaining
for it. The paranoid, tyrannical Manchu emperor is still after Ma Tang
(the good guy from the first film). Ma Tang, meanwhile, is leading a group
of Han rebels who seek to assassinate the emperor and overthrow the Manchu
government. He is assisted by the daughter of a government official. As
you may remember, Ma Tang had developed a metal umbrella to stop the flying
guillotine, but now the emperor has a new, improved model with two blades...
one to cut the umbrella and the second to cut off the head!
HK import;
widescreen uncut (88 min.) version in DVD format, encoded for ALL REGIONS,
playable on any American DVD machine. In English dubbed language.
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