Director: Wong Yu
Starring; Wong Yu
Genre; Martial Arts
Year; 1975
Release; US
The sequal to The One-Armed Boxer. This time the master of the 2 Tibetian Lama Monks, who were dispatched in the first film, comes looking for his revenge. Centered around a martial-arts contest, the master has help, each a competitor. There's a Japanese guy, a Thai boxer and an Indian Yogi, sound familier? yes, just like the first film. However, the master, despite being blind, is armed with the fabled flying Guillotene. A device that is thrown over the head of someone, knives then come out and decapitates the poor recipient. A subject featured in quite a few films, the device is supposedly true. Well, there was supposed to be some kind of device that could decapitate at a distance, knocking around sometime in the Ming dynasty. No drawings, plans or descriptions exist though, so it's all guesswork. The movie versions are all basically similar. However they always seem very cumbersome and slow to me, you'd need the guy not to be aware that you were throwing it at them. However, who needs accuracy in chop socky movies?
More fun than the first, and, the different styles actually seem different during the fighting too, unlike the first one. Good fun, and well worth it.
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