The Emperor's armies have developed a new weapon: a thrown blade that can remove someone's head from long distance. As the paranoid Emperor begins decapitating anyone he fears might be a threat, his guard Mau Tang becomes disillusioned with the excesses of his master. He leaves his post and takes up the quiet life of farming and raising a family. Eventually, though, his past catches up with him, and he must find a way to fight the flying guillotine if he is to save his head.
The emperor has a new invention, The flying guillotine, a devastating weapon in the hands of his assassins. He uses them to sow fear and kill all that opposes him. One of his trained assassin, Ma Teng played by Chen Kuan-Tai, grows disillusioned with the emperor’s reign of fear and terror. His dissatisfaction culminates one night, and runs off and becomes a farmer. But off course he can’t hide for ever. And the emperor send out his assassins to kill him and his new family. I thought there would be a lot more fights, but there are only a few, compared to other Kung Fu movie I have seen. But the ones there are really well choreographed. I especially love the fight where the cross-cut between a fight between to guards and Ma Teng and song sung by his love interest Yu Ping. It’s something the movie also uses doing a fight scene crosscutting between it and Yu Ping giving birth. It works quite well. It even has some great shots which utilizes the Kuleshov effect as Ma Teng thinks back o
