Kiltro


Kiltro is a Chilean martial arts film released in 2006. Directed and written by Ernesto Daz Espinoza and starring the martial artist Marko Zaror.

Street tough Zamir has been in love with Kim ever since he rescued her from rapists, but the only way that he can express his affection is to attack any man who shows interest in her. Kim tolerates Zamirs infatuation, but keeps him at arms length. When Max Kalba arrives in town to take vengeance on Kims father, Zamir attempts to rescue her once again. Kalba overpowers Zamir and kidnaps Kims father, who is the Master at the Korean martial arts school. Kim and Zamir flee and take refuge with a mystic dwarf named Nik Nak, who explains that Kalba will kill everyone linked to the Sect of martial artists to which Kim and Zamirs fathers belonged. A series of flashbacks reveal a love triangle between Kims parents and Kalba, which resulted in her mothers suicide. While Zamir trains with a drunken Sect member named Jose Soto, Kalbas minions kidnap Kim. Zamir learns to fight in the Zeta style and is given a pair of bladed spurs for his feet. He arrives at Kalbas headquarters and easily cuts through Kalbas minions to fight the man himself. Kalba taunts Zamir with the fact that he has murdered Zamirs mother, and gains the upper hand. On the brink of defeat, Zamir takes strength from his love of Kim and kills Kalba. Later, Zamir checks up on Kim, and she grants him a second kiss in thanks. He departs to reunite with Jose Soto, whom he has learned is his father.The film contains a number of references to aspects of popular films and television shows. In the scene where Zamir runs down a street at night to the music of David Bowies Modern Love is a parody of a scene in Leos Caraxs Bad Blood. The films score is a pastiche of Ennio Morricones spaghetti western scores, and one passage directly quotes from the score of Once Upon a Time in the West. The scene in which Zamir must attempt to snatch a pebble from his masters hand is a reference to the famous test in the television series Kung Fu. The name of the dwarf Nik Nak is a reference to the dwarf villain Nick Nack in The Man with t

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