Killer Constable (1980)

Original title

萬人斬

Directed by

Kuei Chih-hung

Genre

drama film, action film, adventure film, martial arts film

Country

British Hong Kong

Runtime

1h 38m

Rated

16

Rating

7.3 of 10 from 21 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A ruthless constable leads a squad of enforcers to hunt down a gang of thieves who stole imperial gold. He follows a trail of blood through the criminal underworld, using extreme violence to get results.

grittyrelentlessbleakviolenttensemorally ambiguousfast-paced

What happens

Killer Constable (Chinese: 萬人斬; aka Karate Exterminators, Lightning Kung Fu, Blood Brothers, or Karate Warrior ) is a 1980 Hong Kong martial arts-action film directed by Chih-Hung Kwei, starring martial arts star Chen Kuan-tai. The movie was produced by the Shaw Brothers studio and is a loose reworking of the 1969 movie The Invincible Fist by the film director Chang Cheh, a frequent collaborator of Chih-Hung Kwei. Killer Constable began a transition from the earlier Shaw Brothers studio films to the more cynical film noir approach of the later Hong Kong New Wave. It was Chih-Hung Kwei's one and only period wuxia film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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