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* BadassCrew: Bai Yu-tang's band of BloodBrothers all serve this purpose in the climatic final battle. Appropriately they're all themed after rodents.
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* BadassCrew: Bai Yu-tang's band of BloodBrothers [[SwornBrothers blood brothers]] all serve this purpose in the climatic final battle. Appropriately they're all themed after rodents.
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* AnimalMotifs: Protagonist Zhan Zhao is awarded the title "King Cat" because of his agility and stealth being compared to a cat. Fittingly enough, his immediate rival is Bai Yu-tang the "Brocade-Coated Rat", and they spend much of the movie picking on each other, Bai trying to stay a step ahead of Zhan while Zhan tries catching Bai.
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* AnimalMotifs: AnimalThemeNaming: Protagonist Zhan Zhao is awarded the title "King Cat" because of his agility and stealth being compared to a cat. Fittingly enough, his immediate rival is the "Five Rats" led by Bai Yu-tang the "Brocade-Coated Rat", and they spend much of the movie picking on each other, Bai trying to stay a step ahead of Zhan while Zhan tries catching Bai.
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Based on the Song Dynasty novel, ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seven_Heroes_and_Five_Gallants Seven Heroes and Five Gallants]]'' (七侠五义), Chang Yi stars as the leading gallant, Zhan Zhao (展昭) a.k.a the titular King Cat, who is assigned to track down a band of thieves calling themselves the "Five Rats" led by Bai Yu-tang (白玉堂) a.k.a the "Brocade-Coated Rat", who is guilty of stealing a load of imperial treasure. But they have to put their differences aside to rescue a princess from the ruthless, dangerous murderer called Hua Chong, the Variegated Butterfly (Lo Lieh).
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Based on the Song Dynasty novel, ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seven_Heroes_and_Five_Gallants Seven Heroes and Five Gallants]]'' (七侠五义), Chang Yi stars as the leading gallant, Zhan Zhao (展昭) a.k.a the titular King Cat, who is assigned to track down a band of thieves calling themselves the "Five Rats" led by Bai Yu-tang (白玉堂) a.k.a the "Brocade-Coated Rat", who is guilty of stealing a load of imperial treasure. But they have to put their differences aside to rescue a princess from the ruthless, dangerous murderer called murderer, Hua Chong, Chong the Variegated Butterfly (Lo Lieh).
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* AnimalMotifs: Protagonist Zhan Zao is awarded the title "King Cat" because of his agility and stealth being compared to a cat. Fittingly enough, his immediate rival is Bai Yu-tang the "Brocade-Coated Rat", and they spend much of the movie picking on each other, Bai trying to stay a step ahead of Zhan while Zhan tries catching Bai.
* ArrowCatch: Zhan Zao's backstory when he saves the Emperor, involves him catching an assassin's arrow with his bare hands moments before the arrow can hit the Emperor.
* ArrowCatch: Zhan Zao's backstory when he saves the Emperor, involves him catching an assassin's arrow with his bare hands moments before the arrow can hit the Emperor.
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* AnimalMotifs: Protagonist Zhan Zao Zhao is awarded the title "King Cat" because of his agility and stealth being compared to a cat. Fittingly enough, his immediate rival is Bai Yu-tang the "Brocade-Coated Rat", and they spend much of the movie picking on each other, Bai trying to stay a step ahead of Zhan while Zhan tries catching Bai.
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* TheCavalry: In the climax of the movie when Zhan Zao and Bai Yu-tang are facing off against hordes of corrupt monks, Bai's sworn brothers arrives with the other warriors to help combat the monks.
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* TheCavalry: In the climax of the movie when Zhan Zao Zhao and Bai Yu-tang are facing off against hordes of corrupt monks, Bai's sworn brothers arrives with the other warriors to help combat the monks.
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* GentlemanThief: Bai Yu-tang, the "Brocade-Coated Rat" who spends much of the film challenging Zhan Zao.
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* TheRival: Zhan Zao against Bai Yu-tang, the former being an Imperial Inspector and the latter being a GentlemanThief.
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* WallCrawl: Another one of the many skills displayed by Zhan Zao, when he grabs and climbs up a wall while holding Princess Yong'an.
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* WallCrawl: Another one of the many skills displayed by Zhan Zao, Zhao, when he grabs and climbs up a wall while holding Princess Yong'an.
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[[caption-width-right:350:The cat, the rat, and the princess they need to save.]]
''King Cat'' is a 1967 {{Wuxia}} movie released by Creator/ShawBrothers, starring Creator/ChangYi, Creator/LoLieh and Kiu Chong.
Based on the Song Dynasty novel, ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seven_Heroes_and_Five_Gallants Seven Heroes and Five Gallants]]'' (七侠五义), Chang Yi stars as the leading gallant, Zhan Zhao (展昭) a.k.a the titular King Cat, who is assigned to track down a band of thieves calling themselves the "Five Rats" led by Bai Yu-tang (白玉堂) a.k.a the "Brocade-Coated Rat", who is guilty of stealing a load of imperial treasure. But they have to put their differences aside to rescue a princess from the ruthless, dangerous murderer called Hua Chong, the Variegated Butterfly (Lo Lieh).
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!!King Cat contains example of:
* AnimalMotifs: Protagonist Zhan Zao is awarded the title "King Cat" because of his agility and stealth being compared to a cat. Fittingly enough, his immediate rival is Bai Yu-tang the "Brocade-Coated Rat", and they spend much of the movie picking on each other, Bai trying to stay a step ahead of Zhan while Zhan tries catching Bai.
* ArrowCatch: Zhan Zao's backstory when he saves the Emperor, involves him catching an assassin's arrow with his bare hands moments before the arrow can hit the Emperor.
* BadassCrew: Bai Yu-tang's band of BloodBrothers all serve this purpose in the climatic final battle. Appropriately they're all themed after rodents.
* BigBadDuumvirate: Hua Chong, the Variegated Butterfly who is a corrupt martial artist who takes delight in killing and raping for fun, and the monastery's high priest who oversees the illicit theft, kidnapping and trafficking operations of the corrupt monks.
* {{Blackface}}: It's ''very'' obvious that the black-faced Justice Bao-zhen is played by a Chinese actor (Ching Miao, who frequently plays bit roles in Shaw Brothers movies) with a painted face.
* BoobyTrap: The monastery's interiors and basement levels are full of traps, including pitfalls and spear-launchers.
* TheCavalry: In the climax of the movie when Zhan Zao and Bai Yu-tang are facing off against hordes of corrupt monks, Bai's sworn brothers arrives with the other warriors to help combat the monks.
* DamselInDistress: Princess Yung'an ends up being captured by Hua Chong and the corrupt monks, and it's up to Zhan Zhao and Bai Yu-tang to save her in the finale.
* DuelToTheDeath: The final one-on-one duel between Zhan Zhao and Hua Chong, [[spoiler: which Zhan Zhao emerged the winner]].
* EnemyMine: Zhan Zhao "The Cat" and Bai Yu-tang "The Rat" put their differences aside when they end up facing the legion of corrupt monks in the monastery.
* FamilyThemeNaming: For the Bai Yu-tang the Brocaded Mouse and his four "brothers"; Lu Fang the Skyward Mouse, Han Chang the Underground Mouse, Hsu Ching the Mountain Mouse and Chiang Ping the Underwater Mouse
* GentlemanThief: Bai Yu-tang, the "Brocade-Coated Rat" who spends much of the film challenging Zhan Zao.
* InASingleBound: Atypical for these type of films, Zhan Zhao displays impressive skills in leaping periodically, capable of scaling rooftops with a single leap.
* OffWithHisHead: Early on there's a prisoner who gets sentenced to a public execution by Judge Bao, using a mobile dragon-headed guillotine. It's a GoryDiscretionShot however.
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Hua Chong, besides being a ruthless murderer, killer and the BigBad of the movie, is also a rapist who had raped and killed 3 imperial handmaidens (their half-naked corpses can be seen when Zhan Zhao leads a group of inspectors to investigate his scene of crime) simply ForTheEvulz. You know, just in case the audience doesn't know he's the bad guy of the picture.
* TheRival: Zhan Zao against Bai Yu-tang, the former being an Imperial Inspector and the latter being a GentlemanThief.
* RedshirtArmy: The Princess' cadre of bodyguards are dressed entirely in red, and half of them died rather quickly in the abduction, barely standing a chance against the corrupt monks.
* ScoundrelCode: Bai Yu-tang and his brothers may all be thieves and scoundrels, but they only steal from the rich and corrupt. And there are lines they will NOT cross, such as murder or rape. They also maintain a strict level of HonorAmongThieves.
* ThievesGuild: The five "rats", led by Bai Yu-tang.
* WallCrawl: Another one of the many skills displayed by Zhan Zao, when he grabs and climbs up a wall while holding Princess Yong'an.
* WireFu
* {{Wuxia}}
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[[caption-width-right:350:The cat, the rat, and the princess they need to save.]]
''King Cat'' is a 1967 {{Wuxia}} movie released by Creator/ShawBrothers, starring Creator/ChangYi, Creator/LoLieh and Kiu Chong.
Based on the Song Dynasty novel, ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seven_Heroes_and_Five_Gallants Seven Heroes and Five Gallants]]'' (七侠五义), Chang Yi stars as the leading gallant, Zhan Zhao (展昭) a.k.a the titular King Cat, who is assigned to track down a band of thieves calling themselves the "Five Rats" led by Bai Yu-tang (白玉堂) a.k.a the "Brocade-Coated Rat", who is guilty of stealing a load of imperial treasure. But they have to put their differences aside to rescue a princess from the ruthless, dangerous murderer called Hua Chong, the Variegated Butterfly (Lo Lieh).
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!!King Cat contains example of:
* AnimalMotifs: Protagonist Zhan Zao is awarded the title "King Cat" because of his agility and stealth being compared to a cat. Fittingly enough, his immediate rival is Bai Yu-tang the "Brocade-Coated Rat", and they spend much of the movie picking on each other, Bai trying to stay a step ahead of Zhan while Zhan tries catching Bai.
* ArrowCatch: Zhan Zao's backstory when he saves the Emperor, involves him catching an assassin's arrow with his bare hands moments before the arrow can hit the Emperor.
* BadassCrew: Bai Yu-tang's band of BloodBrothers all serve this purpose in the climatic final battle. Appropriately they're all themed after rodents.
* BigBadDuumvirate: Hua Chong, the Variegated Butterfly who is a corrupt martial artist who takes delight in killing and raping for fun, and the monastery's high priest who oversees the illicit theft, kidnapping and trafficking operations of the corrupt monks.
* {{Blackface}}: It's ''very'' obvious that the black-faced Justice Bao-zhen is played by a Chinese actor (Ching Miao, who frequently plays bit roles in Shaw Brothers movies) with a painted face.
* BoobyTrap: The monastery's interiors and basement levels are full of traps, including pitfalls and spear-launchers.
* TheCavalry: In the climax of the movie when Zhan Zao and Bai Yu-tang are facing off against hordes of corrupt monks, Bai's sworn brothers arrives with the other warriors to help combat the monks.
* DamselInDistress: Princess Yung'an ends up being captured by Hua Chong and the corrupt monks, and it's up to Zhan Zhao and Bai Yu-tang to save her in the finale.
* DuelToTheDeath: The final one-on-one duel between Zhan Zhao and Hua Chong, [[spoiler: which Zhan Zhao emerged the winner]].
* EnemyMine: Zhan Zhao "The Cat" and Bai Yu-tang "The Rat" put their differences aside when they end up facing the legion of corrupt monks in the monastery.
* FamilyThemeNaming: For the Bai Yu-tang the Brocaded Mouse and his four "brothers"; Lu Fang the Skyward Mouse, Han Chang the Underground Mouse, Hsu Ching the Mountain Mouse and Chiang Ping the Underwater Mouse
* GentlemanThief: Bai Yu-tang, the "Brocade-Coated Rat" who spends much of the film challenging Zhan Zao.
* InASingleBound: Atypical for these type of films, Zhan Zhao displays impressive skills in leaping periodically, capable of scaling rooftops with a single leap.
* OffWithHisHead: Early on there's a prisoner who gets sentenced to a public execution by Judge Bao, using a mobile dragon-headed guillotine. It's a GoryDiscretionShot however.
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Hua Chong, besides being a ruthless murderer, killer and the BigBad of the movie, is also a rapist who had raped and killed 3 imperial handmaidens (their half-naked corpses can be seen when Zhan Zhao leads a group of inspectors to investigate his scene of crime) simply ForTheEvulz. You know, just in case the audience doesn't know he's the bad guy of the picture.
* TheRival: Zhan Zao against Bai Yu-tang, the former being an Imperial Inspector and the latter being a GentlemanThief.
* RedshirtArmy: The Princess' cadre of bodyguards are dressed entirely in red, and half of them died rather quickly in the abduction, barely standing a chance against the corrupt monks.
* ScoundrelCode: Bai Yu-tang and his brothers may all be thieves and scoundrels, but they only steal from the rich and corrupt. And there are lines they will NOT cross, such as murder or rape. They also maintain a strict level of HonorAmongThieves.
* ThievesGuild: The five "rats", led by Bai Yu-tang.
* WallCrawl: Another one of the many skills displayed by Zhan Zao, when he grabs and climbs up a wall while holding Princess Yong'an.
* WireFu
* {{Wuxia}}
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