萬人斬

萬人斬 (1980)

2 million taels in gold has been stolen from a vault within the Forbidden City. The Empress wants the money returned within 10 days. Chief Constable Leng Tian-Ying is hired to bring back the gold robbers, dead or alive- and Leng's earned a reputation of never bringing anyone back alive.

Data di uscita
1980-03-28
TMDB
7.3 / 10 (22)
Durata
1 h 38 min
Generi
Azione, Avventura, Dramma
Regista
桂治洪

Cast

Curiosità

Killer Constable 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.

Production

Killer Constable was produced by the Shaw Brothers using a Hong Kong-Korea co-production construct. Filming occurred in Hong Kong and South Korea and included a Korean assistant director Kim Seon-Gyeong. Several Korean actors picked up minor rolls, such as Kwan Yung-Moon.

An altered version of Killer Constable, 노명검 (The No-myung Sword), was made for the Korean market, with different scenes, extended runtime and altered plot.

For the main character of the Killer Constable director Chih-Hung Kwei has explained that he was influenced by Doctor Zhivago: "I love Dr. Zhivago. In Killer Constable, I want to create a character like Zhivago. Despite his position in the high court, the protagonist is a righteous man. Yet in the corruption and poverty-stricken era at the end of the Qing dynasty, there is not much good he can do on his own.

Lead actor Chen Kuan-tai had previously left Shaw Brothers in a contract dispute, but was available as he re-joined Shaw Brothers in 1978.

He had starred as the lead in earlier successful movies directed by Chih-Hung Kwei, such as The Teahouse (1974) and Big Brother Cheng (1975), that also share the same screenwriter Szeto On.

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