Well Go USA has released a trailer for director Liu Wenpu’s Wuxia crime drama The Butcher’s Blade.
The film follows constable Xue Buyi (Liu Fengchao) as he is framed for the theft of disaster relief funds. While trying to prove his innocence he is forced take a job working for corrupt officials, struggling to choose the path between his integrity and freedom, he makes the decision to fight back. Watch the trailer below…
When thousands in disaster relief funds disappear, upstanding constable Xue Buyi is framed for the disappearance. Desperate to prove his innocence, he takes a job with a secret squad whose only goal is to serve and protect those who can afford to pay. Forced to choose between his integrity and his freedom, Xue decides the only path forward is to fight back and hope that exposing these dangerous agents of chaos will be enough to set him free.
The Butcher’s Blade arrives on digital on May 12th.