Jing Wu Men

English Title:	Fist Of Fury
Year:	1972
Country:	Hong Kong
Language:	Multilingual
Genre:	Action, Cult, Martial Arts
IMDB:	IMDB Page
Rating:	7.0 Rate
Collection:	Seen It Wishlist
Community:	6 Have Seen


Director	Wei Lo
Selected Cast	Bruce Lee
	Nora Miao
	Monica Yi
	Tien Feng

On DVD & Blu-ray World

DVD

Fist Of Fury - Hong Kong Legends - UK (2005)

DVD

Fist Of Fury - Universal - Australia (2005)

Blu-ray

Fist Of Fury - Kam & Ronson - Hong Kong (2015)

VHS

Fist Of Fury - HemVideo Film - Sweden

DVD Box Set

Bruce Lee Collection - Metropolitan Film & Video - France (2002)

DVD Box Set

Bruce Lee: The Master Collection - 20th Century Fox - USA (2002)

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Comments and Reviews


Magic Marmalade 20th Jan 2025		(Also, incidentally learned something about Kung-Fu Panda from this, having watched in original language with English subtitles: Shifu means: Master...so: Master Shifu should rightly be: "master master" (a bit like Chai Tea, isn't it?)



Magic Marmalade 20th Jan 2025		Rated 7/10 Wasn't sure if I'd seen this one, or one of the others... (That isn't Enter The Dragon... as I know that one by heart, having seen it over and over since I was a small weeble) ...Turns out, I'd not. But it's pretty darn good, albeit a bit shonky in places, and what with the very strong anti-Japanese theme throughout, a blacked-up Chinese actor as an Indian (with turban), and the generally broad depictions of anyone who isn't heroic, yet victimised Chinese... But hey, everyone did this kind of thing at sometime or other didn't they? >"It was a different time then!!!"< (chuckle) ...Nevertheless, although it's a pretty stock revenge movie, whereby "hero" has to and wade through stacks of minions to kick bog boss' ass, it does a great job in telling that story, and does some subtlety and nuance to the plot, in that it seems to proceed from the principle that s%&t gets out of hand very quickly when you pursue this kind of revenge thing, and in the end, nobody really wins. But let's park our brains for a moment here... It's a Bruce Lee kung-fu movie, and that's all you want it to be, and it is. Opening title cards and music very suggestive of Sergio Leone Scetti westerns, and the finale is in the pantheon of ultimate iconic kung-fu scenes, and includes the beyond iconic shot of Bruce's slow-mo mutli-exposure, hypnotising mutli-trance-arms. Only real gripe is that at least half the people in the fight scenes don't really seem to have much of a clue about kung-fu (about as much as I do!) I can only imagine what Bruce himself thought of some of them gently waving their arms about aimlessly, which is only highlighted by the other half, who clearly do know something! The problem here is that a lot of main bad guys fall into this fist category - being somewhat portly middle aged chaps which I'm fairly sure even I could take. Bruce looks like another species of human entirely in the face of these guys... which doesn't help to sell the idea that he'd have any problem whatsoever with them. There is also a great sort of James Bond theme going, where Bruce has to go to ground, and by means of disguises and such, infiltrate the bad guys, which added something to the movie. Enter The Dragon, it ain't, but certainly heading in that direction impressively. ✔︎ Helpful Review?

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