The Killer (1972 film)
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{{Infobox film
| name = The Killer
| image = Da-sha-shou-movie-poster-md.jpg
| alt =
| caption = Theatrical release poster
| native_name =
| director = Chor Yuen
| producer = Run Run Shaw{{cite web|url=https://ipac.hkfa.lcsd.gov.hk/ipac/cclib/ipac.jsp?cs=iso-8859-1|title=Hong Kong Film Archive [Search for "大殺手"]|accessdate=February 13, 2020|publisher=Hong Kong Film Archive}}
| writer =
| screenplay = Kuo Chia
| story =
| based_on =
| starring = {{plainlist|
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| music = Zhou Fuliang
| studio = Shaw Brothers Studio
| distributor = Warner Bros.
| released = {{Film date|df=y|1972|8|1|Hong Kong}}
| runtime = 94 minutes
| language = Mandarin
| budget =
| gross =
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The Killer (released in the United States as Sacred Knives of Vengeance) is a 1972 Hong Kong martial arts film directed by Chor Yuen.{{cite magazine|magazine=Monthly Film Bulletin|title=Killer, The|pages=192–193|last=Milne|first=Tom|volume=40|issue=476|date=September 1973|publisher=British Film Institute}}
Release
Reception
From contemporary reviews, Tom Milne of the Monthly Film Bulletin reviewed a dubbed version of the film. Milne found the film to be a "rather tired offering from 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." 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."
References
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External links
- {{Hkmdb title|id=5281|title=The Killer}}
- {{IMDb title|0068803|title=Sacred Knives Of Vengeance}}
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO_qzDDabLk English trailer]
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Category:1972 martial arts films
Category:Shaw Brothers Studio films
Category:Hong Kong action films
Category:Hong Kong martial arts films
Category:Films directed by Chor Yuen
Category:1970s Mandarin-language films
Category:1970s Hong Kong films
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