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Master of the Flying Guillotine is a 1975 Hong Kong martial arts film starring Jimmy Wang Yu, who also wrote and directed the film. It is a sequel to Yu's 1971 film The One-Armed Boxer, and thus the film is also known as One-Armed Boxer 2 and The One Armed Boxer Vs. the Flying Guillotine.

The film concerns Yu's one-armed martial arts master being stalked by an Imperial assassin, the master of two fighters who were killed in the previous film. When the One-Armed Boxer is invited to attend a martial arts tournament, his efforts to lay low are unsuccessful when the assassin soon tracks him down.

The title refers to the assassin's unique weapon, the so-called "Flying Guillotine" which resembles a hat with a bladed trim attached to a long chain. Upon enveloping one's head, the blades cleanly decapitate the unlucky victim with a quick pull of the chain.

Impact

Master of the Flying Guillotine is considered a classic martial arts film and has influenced many films of the genre that followed.

It was paid homage to in Quentin Tarantino's film Kill Bill
, which briefly used the film's droning theme music, an excerpt of the song "Super 16" by Neu!, during the House of Blue Leaves sequence. Gogo Yubari's unique weapon, a meteor hammer with retractable blades, could also be considered a take-off of the Flying Guillotine.

The Street Fighter character Dhalsim's abilities also resemble those of an Indian fighter that appears in the film, with both characters using a yoga-based fighting style and having an unnatural ability to extend their limbs to attack.

The band From First to Last references this movie on their album "Dear Diary, My Teen Angst Has a Bodycount", titling a song "The One Armed Boxer vs. The Flying Guillotine."

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