Master of the Flying Guillotine (1976)
One Armed Boxer II
The One Armed Boxer vs. the Flying Guillotine
One-Armed Boxer II
The One-Armed Boxer vs. the Flying Guillotine
| Tagline(s): | It's a Mean Machine - Cuts Your Head Off Clean! |
| | Armed with the Most Gruesome Weapon ever Conceived... He Challenged the Warriors from Beyond Time! |
Nomination Year: 2022
SYNOPSIS:
The Mings and the Chings are at it again. Two of the Blind Monk's disciples went off to assassinate the famed One-Armed Boxer, only to be killed by the latter's superior kung fu. Upon hearing the news, the Blind Master of the Flying Guillotine goes mad with revenge, vowing to kill the One-Armed Boxer and will murder every one-armed man he encounters to do it! It is no idle threat, because his skill with that unique buzzsaw-beanie-on-a-chain is unparallelled and his kung fu is top-notch!
Meanwhile, the Eagle Claw clan is sponsoring a no-holds-barred kung fu tournament, open to all comers. Our protagonist, the One-Armed Boxer, is persuaded to attend -- but as a spectator, since he refuses to compete. The contest features many colorful characters and many techniques (this part of the film is basically Street Fighter: The Movie, complete with Dhalsim and Chun Li analogues). One of the competitors is even one-armed, like our Boxer! Suddenly -- POOF -- the Blind Monk appears and decapitates him! When the Eagle Claw Clan master tries to stop him, the Blind Monk kills him, too!
The real One-Armed Boxer and his school go into hiding until they discover a way to defeat this seemingly unbeatable foe (who sports an I-kid-you-not swastika on his robes). Will they succeed, or become the next victims of...the Master of the Flying Guillotine!
Bryan Cassidy
Smithee Award Nominations
| "Cutting Butter With A Chainsaw" |
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To Avenge My Students, I Must Destroy My House! The Blind Monk gets word from a Braille-carrying pigeon that his two student assassins are dead. Then he goes a little nuts, demonstrating the flying guillotine and, for some weird reason, FIREBOMBING his own house!
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Sudden Utterly Useless Switch to Chinese There are three examples I clipped, then stopped clipping them. Whoever laid the "English" track just didn't care: The soundtrack randomly switches from English to Mandarin for no reason. Not TOO often, but maybe six or seven times throughout the film. And no, it isn't a technical glitch, I checked. What's best/most amusing about these linguistic blunders is that whenever they switch back to English, it seems that whatever they said in Chinese was UTTERLY superfluous! The conversations seem to flow without it. Like "Will the One-Armed Boxer come?" *Full Minute of Mandarin* "Yes, I think he might." WTF?
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Flying Is a Matter of Breathing According to the OAB, you can walk on the edges of wicker baskets and even up walls and ceilings...if you learn the proper BREATHING techniques. Uh-huh. Doubt(x).
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Directors
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Claim to Fame |
 Jimmy Wang Yu |
Directed The One-Armed
Boxer and its sequel Master
of the Flying Guillotine, as well
as Dragon and
Soul (NOT the animated
Pixar film, the 2013 demonic-possession
thriller). In researching him, at the
time of this writing I discovered he
passed away literally last week.
I wonder if he'd be pleased people were
discovering his work in the Smithees. |
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Yu Wang
