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Killer Constable | |
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Traditional Chinese | 萬人斬 |
Simplified Chinese | 万人斩 |
Literal meaning | Beheader of ten thousand persons[4] |
Hanyu Pinyin | Wàn Rén Zhǎn |
Directed by | Chih-Hung Kwei |
Screenplay by |
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Produced by | |
Starring | |
Cinematography | Lee San-Yip |
Edited by |
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Music by | Eddie Wang |
Distributed by | Shaw Brothers (Hong Kong) W.W. Entertainment (U.S.) [2][3] Celestial Pictures [5] |
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Running time | 92 minutes[6] 100 minutes [7] |
Country | Hong Kong |
Language | Mandarin |
Box office | HK$984,108.50 [8][9] |
Killer Constable (Chinese: 萬人斬; aka Karate Exterminators, Lightning Kung Fu, Blood Brothers, or Karate Warrior [10]) 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.[11][12][13]
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.[14][15] It was Chih-Hung Kwei's one and only period wuxia film.[16]
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