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The Guillotines is a 2012 Chinese-Hong Kong wuxia drama film directed by Andrew Lau, starring Huang Xiaoming, Ethan Juan, Shawn Yue, Li Yuchun and Jing Boran. It is a remake of the 1975 Shaw Brothers film Flying Guillotine.
A guillotine ( / ˈɡɪlətiːn, - loʊ -/ GHIH-lə-teen, -loh-) is an apparatus designed for efficiently carrying out executions by beheading. The device consists of a tall, upright frame with a weighted and angled blade suspended at the top.
Jun 28, 2024 · Guillotine, instrument for inflicting capital punishment by decapitation, introduced in France in 1792. It consists of two posts surmounted by a crossbeam and grooved so as to guide an oblique-edged knife, the back of which is weighted to make it fall forcefully upon and slice through the neck of a prone victim.
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Jun 14, 2013 · The Guillotines: Directed by Andrew Lau. With Xiaoming Huang, Ethan Juan, Purba Rgyal, Tian Gao. An elite crime-fighting unit in the court of the Chinese emperor relies on flying swords to defeat their enemies.
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- Action, Drama
- Andrew Lau
- 2013-06-14
Apr 11, 2013 · THE GUILLOTINES: Watch Now On Digital, Blu-ray, and DVD | A secret brotherhood of assassins, once favored by the Emperor, is exiled and hunted with firearms that challenge the power of their...
- 2 min
- 39.8K
- Well Go USA Entertainment
Jan 23, 2019 · The guillotine is an instrument for inflicting capital punishment by decapitation that came into common use in France after 1792 (during the French Revolution ). In 1789, a French physician first suggested that all criminals should be executed by a “machine that beheads painlessly." Heritage Images / Getty Images.
Sep 15, 2014 · The Guillotine. 2. It was originally developed as a more humane method of execution. The origins of the French guillotine date back to late-1789, when Dr. Joseph-Ignace Guillotin...
