Fist of Fury
Fist of Fury was a Hong Kong film directed by Lo Wei in 1972. It starred the martial artist Bruce Lee in his second major film after The Big Boss. The film depicts a Chinese martial arts school in Shanghai which fought against a Japanese karate school.
Cast
Bruce
Lee as Chen Zhen
Nora Miao as Yuan Le-erh
James Tien Chun as Fan Chun-hsia
Feng Tien as Fan
Paul Wei Ping-ao as Hu
Maria Yi as Yen
Lee Quin
as Hsu
Lo Wei as Inspector
Hwong Chung Hsin as Tien
Han Yin-chieh
as Feng Kwai-sher
Feng Wi as Yoshida
Tony Liu as Chin
Chin San as
Tung
Riki Hashimoto as Hiroshi Suzuki "Mr. Suzuki"
Robert Baker
as Petrov "The Russian"
Lam Ching Ying (Stuntman)
Jackie Chan
(Stuntman) (uncredited)
Memorable Lines
"Remember
this. We Chinese are not sick!" (after defeating the Japanese karate school
for the first time; a reference to China being called the Sick man of Asia).
"This
time you're eating paper. The next time...it'll be glass!" (after saying
the "Sick man of Asia" line).
"So why did you kill my teacher
then?! WHY DID YOU KILL MY TEACHER?! Why?! Why?! Why?! Why?! Why?! Why?!...Why
did you kill my teacher?!" (after capturing one of the men responsible for
his teacher's death. He repeatedly pounds him in his belly with each "why",
and was originally going to interrogate him before he ruptured his stomach, killing
him in his fit of rage).
"I have come here to avenge my teacher. This
doesn't concern you. I'll allow you to leave. Out. Out. Out. Out. SCRAM!!!!!"
(after entering the school in the final scenes.)
"I am not educated much,
do not lie to me..." (negotiating with the Chinese police officer before
being arrested)
"He was well, there was nothing wrong! How can a healthy
man die?"
"Know this! I shall repay for the lives that I took. You
just leave this School alone!" (Bruce's last line in the film)
Background
The film is loosely based on Chin Woo Athletic Association, the
actual school from which the film took its Chinese title. The plot features the
story of Chen Zhen (??; Cantonese: Chen Jen, played by Bruce Lee), a fictional
character created by director Lo Wei for the film.[2] Chen Zhen is shown as a
student of the real-life martial artist Huo Yuanjia (???; Cantonese: Fok Yun Gap)
who, after the mysterious death of Huo, fought the Hongkou Dojo of Suzuki Taro.
The film is set in the 1930's, during the occupation of Shanghai, China by several foreign countries, including Japan. It is about a Chinese Martial Arts school whose master (Huo) was recently killed by men associated with a rival Japanese Martial Arts School who continue to harass them. Chen is out to find out who is responsible for his master's death and get justice.
The film is famous for the scene in which Chen Zhen is denied entry into a park bearing a sign stating "No Dogs and Chinese Allowed" (Traditional Chinese: ??????????). After the guards at the park allowed a foreigner's dog to enter the park, a group of Japanese approached Chen, informing that he had to pretend to be a dog before being allowed inside the park. Chen became furious and proceeded to attack the Japanese with punches and kicks. After that, he kicked the offending sign in the air and broke it with a flying kick.
The former U.S. title The Chinese Connection, trading off the popularity of the recently-released Gene Hackman film The French Connection, was originally intended for Bruce Lee's previous film, The Big Boss, due to the drugs theme of that movie. However, the U.S. titles for the films were accidentally swapped for an unknown reason so this film carried the title The Chinese Connection until 2005, despite being obviously unrelated to the content of the movie. The Big Boss in the U.S. had the title Fists of Fury, leading to much confusion. Recent American TV showings and the current official US DVD release from Twentieth Century-Fox have restored the original titles of all the renamed Bruce Lee films; this film is now officially called Fist of Fury in the United States.
This film is one of Bruce Lee's most influential works, as it is one of the main reasons behind the shift in Hong Kong cinema from swordplay to empty-handed fighting, which initiated the "Golden era of Kung Fu Cinema" of the 1970s.
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