Master of the Flying Guillotine

$12 general admission | $6 student | Member benefits may apply

Host Jason Gonzales

At last, kung fu has arrived at The Screening Room, where barista extraordinaire and wuxia scholar Jason Gonzales hosts a weekend of two golden-age martial arts classics.

Master of the Flying Guillotine (what a title!) is a classic martial-arts death match that pits two wuxia icons against each other—the famed One-Armed Boxer (Hong Kong superstar Jimmy Wang Yu) versus a blind assassin (veteran character actor Kam Kong) and his legendary Flying Guillotine. Set in 1730, during the early part of the Ching dynasty, ethnic Chinese Hans formed bands of rebels to fight their Manchurian oppressors. After the One-Armed Boxer, a stoic kung fu expert and Han revolutionary, disposes of two would-be assassins, their master, a formidable blind emissary of the Ching posing as a Buddhist monk, swears revenge, searching out every one-armed martial artist and snatching their heads with his tethered decapitation device called the Flying Guillotine.

Arguably the most famous Hong Kong martial arts film of the post-Bruce Lee, pre-Jackie Chan period, this independently-produced classic is more popular than ever, with a legacy extending to films like K*ll Bill and video games like Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat. With its wild, fantasy face-offs and its cosmic Krautrock soundtrack, Master of the Flying Guillotine is undoubtedly a film worthy of losing your head over!

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• This Friday, 18th July, 07:00 pm, Phoenix in Burlington
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