Killer Constable
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| Traditional Chinese | 萬人斬 |
| Simplified Chinese | 万人斩 |
| Literal meaning | Beheader of ten thousand persons |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Wàn Rén Zhǎn |
| Directed by | Chih-Hung Kwei |
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| Cinematography | Lee San-Yip |
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| Music by | Eddie Wang |
| Distributed by | Shaw Brothers (Hong Kong) W.W. Entertainment (U.S.) Celestial Pictures |
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Running time | 92 minutes 100 minutes |
| Country | Hong Kong |
| Language | Mandarin |
| Box office | HK$984,108.50 |
Killer Constable (Chinese: 萬人斬; aka Karate Exterminators, Lightning Kung Fu, Blood Brothers, or Karate Warrior ) is a 1980 Hong Kong martial arts-action film directed by Chih-Hung Kwei, starring martial arts star Chen Kuan-tai. The movie was produced by the Shaw Brothers studio and is a loose reworking of the 1969 movie The Invincible Fist by the film director Chang Cheh, a frequent collaborator of Chih-Hung Kwei.
Killer Constable began a transition from the earlier Shaw Brothers studio films to the more cynical film noir approach of the later Hong Kong New Wave. It was Chih-Hung Kwei's one and only period wuxia film.