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Title: The Way of the Dragon (1972)
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Cast
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| Bruce Lee | ... |
Tang Lung /
Dragon
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Nora Miao | ... | |
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Ping Ou Wei | ... |
Ho
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Chung-Hsin Huang | ... |
'Uncle' Wang
(as Wang Chung Hsin)
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| Robert Wall | ... |
Bob
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Ing-Sik Whang | ... |
Japanese Fighter
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Di Chin | ... |
Ah Quen
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Tony Liu | ... |
Tony
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Unicorn Chan | ... |
Jimmy
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Malisa Longo | ... |
Italian Beauty
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Fu Ching Chen | ... |
Tommy
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Wu Ngan | ... |
Waiter
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Robert Chen | ... |
Robert
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Jon T. Benn | ... |
Thugs' Boss
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Storyline
Tang Lung arrives in Rome to help his cousins in the restaurant business. They are being pressured to sell their property to the syndicate, who will stop at nothing to get what they want. When Tang arrives he poses a new threat to the syndicate, and they are unable to defeat him. The syndicate boss hires the best Japanese and European martial artists to fight Tang, but he easily finishes them off. The American martial artist Colt is hired and has a showdown with Tang in Rome's famous Colosseum. Written by Darryl Schneider <fish2@datanet.ab.ca>
Taglines:
The Colosseum . . the battleground of Bruce Lee and Chuck Norris [Video Australia] See more »Parents Guide:
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Country:
Hong KongRelease Date:
30 December 1972 (Hong Kong) See more »Also Known As:
Return of the Dragon See more »Box Office
Budget:
$130,000 (estimated)Company Credits
Technical Specs
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MonoColor:
Color (Technicolor)Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1Did You Know?
Trivia
According to the Bruce Lee Documentary, this is Linda Lee Cadwell's (Bruce's wife) favorite of all her husband's films. See more »Goofs
At the beginning of the movie, Bruce Lee is eating several different types of soups and several times he takes a spoonful of an orange colored soup and as he puts it into his mouth some dribbles on his chin. The soup he dribbles on his chin is white. See more »Quotes
'Uncle' Wang: [betraying] I have to do this! I have to... muahahahahahahahahahahaaaaa...See more »
The Way Of The Dragon had the potential to be Bruce's best film in my opinion but was bogged down by the dubbing and acting. But it still stands solid as one great Bruce Lee film and boasts the greatest fight scene ever in my opinion. Bruce plays Tang Lung who travels to Rome to help his family battle local gangsters who are trying to take over their resturaunt. Bruce almost plays a Charlie Chaplin type role here which would later be more fitting to Jackie Chan's slapstick style. Much like the Big Boss the first Bruce fight scene is way into the film but in my opinion this good because it creates a good build up, the nunchuka scene is second only to the one in Fist Of Fury or the uncut Game Of Death. The fight scene in the Roman Colliseum deserves the credit it gets because of one simple reason, its a simple fight, there are no gimmicks, sure its set in the colliseum and the fight is supposed to reflect two roman gladiators but there are no weapons and no sweet talk. It truly has epic scale. The thing that also makes this fight scene work is the end when Tang Lung out of respect covers Colt with his Karate jacket. There may have been better fights since on screen and I havn't seen many Hong Kong films with Sammo Hung, Jackie Chan, Donnie Yen etc but this is the first great one on one fight, therefore it set the standard.
There will indeed never be another Bruce Lee. I find it fascinating to imagine what Bruce would have done if he had lived, the 80's and 90's would have been very different if Arnie, Stallone, Wiilis, Seagal and Van Damme had Bruce to compete with, Bruce is sometimes critcised for being a bad actor, but i disagree, if anyone has seen his episodes of `Longstreet' or `Marlowe' they will see that Bruce could convincingly carry a dramatic scene given the right script and no dubbing and he oozed charisma, and he showed glimpses of good acting in Enter The Dragon.
Being a Bruce fan i kind of wish that Jet Li would do the films that bruce did or was planning on doing, Jet's early work in Honk Kong like the Shaolin Temple or more recent stuff like Fist Of Legend(remake of Fist Of Fury) and Once Upon A Time In China was very promising and it seemed he was the successor to Bruce but instead now he's doing crap in Hollywood with DMX and Jason Statham. Strangely the mediocre Lethal Weapon 4 is Jet's best Hollywood film, Maybe Jet should do a project with John Woo, it would be interesting and they'd probably get the best out of each other.