An assassin is hired to kill the head of a secret society. He soon gets involved with a mysterious beauty and is plunged into the power struggle within the organisation. As the assassin probes deeper into the conspiracy, he discovers that nothing is what it seems...Killer Clans is an exemplary entry in Chor's string of hit films adapted from the works of Taiwanese novelist Gu Long, with which he successfully established the mini-genre of 'martial-arts suspense thriller' as another mainstay of 1970s Shaws productions. Not only did this trend of romantic martial-arts thriller become popular in films, its effect also spilled over into television, where many future filmmakers honed their skills.

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# Post-screening talk with director Manfred Wong; Moderator: Sam Ho

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