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and his best friend Tither Liu, so he can take control of the town and set Cho free. While Yeung's friend is killed, Yeung manages to defeat Lau's men. When Yeung tries to arrest Lau, the entire town protests and pleads with Yeung to liberate Cho, and thereby spare the town from massacre. Yeung does not wish to comply, and resigns instead, and disbands the militia. However, in the morning, when Cho's soldiers arrive and free him, they begin plundering the entire town and killing civilians indiscriminately. Yeung, his wife, and his few remaining followers fight back by bombing the soldiers' camp, setting traps within the town, and arming the surviving townsfolk so they can retaliate. In the end, Cho is killed, and when his father leads the main army in a revenge mission against Pucheng, it happens that Pucheng's own army returns and defeats Cho's father in a pitched field battle. Cho's father later killed. Law and order is restored for a time, while the film goes on to question the privileges of the upper class and the true nature of justice even today.
414:. As Marshal Cho, the son of a military governor, wanders around the area of Shitoucheng indiscriminately killing and robbing from civilians, a school-teacher named Ms Pak flees with her students, and along with other refugees are admitted into Pucheng, which belongs to another governor. Since the soldiers of Pucheng are away on a campaign, authority falls to Colonel Yeung, leader of the militia. A few days later, Cho, who derives pleasure from random killings, enters Pucheng alone and murders Pak's cousin, and one of her students. He is quickly arrested and sentenced to death, but his father's soldiers arrive and demand his release. When Yeung refuses to give in, and threatens to kill Cho on the spot, the soldiers declare that Yeung must release Cho in the morning, or else the entire town will be killed. 417:
Two of the soldiers' commanders worry about Cho, and attempt to lead a squad in a rescue mission at night, to attack the prison and set Cho free, but the militia members successfully repel them. The richest man in town, Mr Lau, who recently hired private security guards, sends them to murder Yeung
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in 20 years, was trained to use a whip to prepare his role as a guardian leader of Pucheng village. Koo will portray the film's main villain, a ruthless warlord, while Peng will portray wanderer. On 19 June, the film's production company and distributor Universe Entertainment released a teaser
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trailer featuring behind the scenes footage and displaying a slated release date of 2016. Universe Entertainment released a second teaser trailer on 15 March 2016 under a new title,
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The project, budgeted at US$ 32 million, was first announced at the 2015 Hong Kong Filmart, which took place in March 2015, under the title
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China has devolved into a patchwork of competing military governates following the dissolution of the
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on its opening weekend in China. It grossed a total of CN¥167.4 million at the Chinese box office.
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and Sammy Hung were present. The set took over four months to build. Lau, who has not filmed a
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It received mixed to positive reviews from critics and Sammo Hung was nominated for
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Filming began in early June 2015. The film was released on 18 August 2016.
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Index


Chinese
Hanyu Pinyin
Jyutping
Benny Chan
Sean Lau
Louis Koo
Eddie Peng
Yuan Quan
Jiang Shuying
Wu Jing
Bona Film Group
Cantonese
Mandarin
US$
action film
Benny Chan
action direction
Sammo Hung
Sean Lau
Louis Koo
Eddie Peng
Yuan Quan
Jiang Shuying
Wu Jing
Qing Dynasty
Sean Lau
Louis Koo
Eddie Peng
Yuan Quan

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