Master of the Flying Guillotine
Master of the Flying Guillotine is a 1976 film from Hong Kong, directed by Jimmy Wang Yu, running 93 minutes. reelscum files it under martial arts.
- Year
- 1976 · 1970s films
- Country
- Hong Kong
- Runtime
- 93 min
- Director
- Jimmy Wang Yu
- Updated
- 29 Oct 2026
- Obscurity
- cult (37/100)
- Also known as
- Master of the Flying Guillotine
Defined in the glossary: Martial arts
A blind monk, a bladed hat on a chain, and a tournament. Perfect.
A blind Imperial assassin wielding a bladed hat on a chain hunts the one-armed boxer who killed his students, and the film builds to a martial-arts tournament featuring fighters with wildly different styles, including one with telescoping arms. It is gloriously inventive pulp.
Jimmy Wang Yu directs and stars, and the flying-guillotine weapon is one of the great exploitation gadgets. The tournament structure and outlandish fighters have been sampled endlessly, from video games to Tarantino.
Pure kung fu imagination, and a genuine cult landmark.
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