The Guillotines Page #3

Synopsis: During the Manchurian-ruled Qing Dynasty, Emperor Yong Zheng established a secret assassination squad known as the Guillotines to eliminate all who opposed him. Once heavily favored by the Emperor, the Guillotines are deemed expendable once Emperor Qian Long ascends to the throne and adopts Western ideas and technology. To consolidate his power under a new regime, the Emperor continues to use the Guillotines to persecute the conquered Han Chinese in a reign of terror and oppression.
Genre: Action, Drama
Director(s): Wai-Keung Lau
Production: Well Go USA
  5 nominations.
 
IMDB:
4.8
Metacritic:
35
Rotten Tomatoes:
25%
R
Year:
2012
112 min
Website
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I want the heavens to know

I:

refuse to die at the hands of a Han Chinese

You won't

Forget your Han name, Wang Lei

From now on, you're Nala Leng

Leng

You're one of us

Leng, you outcast!

Leng

Leng

Leng

Your words are poisoned!

Wolf!

Wolf!

Wolf!

When we were little,

we braided each other's hair

Do you remember?

I thought you had forgotten

Just let the Guillotines finish off Wolf

as a favor to my brothers?

Your brothers again

When will the firearms squad arrive?

I promise to capture Wolf

before they arrive

Haidu

Help me just this once

Green Army Base, Wuguan

Haidu

Help me just this once

The rebel Wolf

to surrender

and other captive Herders

will be executed

He's going to get Musen killed

Mister

if I give this to you

It's Su's badge

What about my rice?

U:

U:

U:

U:

Shisan

Bravo

Where is Wolf?

Stay over there!

Tell me

Where is Wolf?

Tell me

Shisan, stop it!

Calm down

They killed Su!

Leng

Don't move!

Come on

I'll kill whoever comes near

Come on

Get up

We're brothers

Leng

Shisan

Leave some wine for me

Give me

Smallpox victims are always around Wolf

No one goes near them

Their homes

are ideal hideouts for the Herders

If they want to play cat and mouse

we'll play along

Tomorrow at noon

In exchange for Gua-erjia Musen

If Leng fails to appear

Musen will be executed

you can't go tomorrow

I must go

I promised Musen's father

to bring her back

You're going to exchange your life

for hers?

Our lives don't belong to us

They belong to His Majesty

to replace the Guillotines

Tomorrow

Let the Guillotines behead Wolf

then let my brothers go free

I'll go back with you

Looks like you've had enough of being bullied

Eat

I think you're ready for my story

As you know

Han weddings are grand, joyous occasions

One day

the wedding day of Zhuang's daughter

Qing soldiers barged in

and arrested everyone in the Zhuang family

Master Zhuang pleaded

I'm only a book dealer

What have I done wrong?

The captain asked

Have you ever sold a book

titled "The story of Ming Dynasty"?

Master Zhuang recalled

"The story of Ming Dynasty"

cost six coppers each

It sold well

The captain said

the book appears to be about the achievements

of the Ming regime

but in truth, it's an attack on the Qing court

Master Zhuang pleaded innocence

"I didn't write the book!"

The captain said he didn't order the arrest.

It was His Majesty!

The wedding banquet

turned into a funeral

His four older sons were to be beheaded

The youngest son just turned 16

The judge took a year off his age

so that he could be spared

The young son was devastated

"My father and brothers are to be executed

How can I live on?"

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