The Killer (released in the United States as Sacred Knives of Vengeance) is a 1972 Hong Kong martial arts film directed by Chor Yuen.[2]
The Killer | |
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Directed by | Chor Yuen |
Screenplay by | Kuo Chia |
Produced by | Run Run Shaw[1] |
Starring | |
Cinematography | Wu Zhuohua[1] |
Edited by | Jiang Xinglong[1] |
Music by | Zhou Fuliang |
Production company | Shaw Brothers Studio[2] |
Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
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Running time | 94 minutes |
Country | Hong Kong[2] |
Language | Mandarin |
The film was released in Hong Kong on August 1, 1972.[1]
From contemporary reviews, Tom Milne of the Monthly Film Bulletin reviewed a dubbed version of the film.[2] Milne found the film to be a "rather tired offering form the Hong Kong conveyor-belt" while noting the film begins well enough with the hero "arriving in town to confound one and all with his dazzling display of town-taming karate chops and kangaroo hops. It also end swell with the las-minute intervention of a genuine Japanese samurai, heralded by a mysterious sound in an apparently empty house as something falls, and one by one the panels of a screen topple over to reveal him in full regalia, ready to challenge the heroes to the only fight in the film staged with any style or imagination."[2] Milne concluded that the film "gets bogged down in endless, drearily identical fights and a plot which labours through its triangular complex of love and friendship."[2]
Films directed by Chor Yuen | |
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