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Fist of Fury (; known as The Chinese Connection in the U.S., not to be confused with Fists of Fury) was a 1972 film directed by Lo Wei. It starred Bruce Lee in his second major film after The Big Boss
. The film depicts a martial art school in Shanghai which fought against a Japanese Judo school.

The film is loosely based on Jing Wu Men (Jing Mo), the actual school from which the film took its Chinese title. The plot featured the story of Chen Zhen (陳真, played by Bruce Lee), a fictional character created by director Lo Wei for the film. Chen Zhen is shown as a student of the real-life martial artist Huo Yuanjia (霍元甲; Cantonese: Fok Yun Gap) who, after the mysterious death of Huo, fought the Hongkou Dojo of Suzuki Taro.

The film is set in the 1930s, during the occupation of Shanghai by several foreign countries, including Japan. 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." 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 film also featured the nunchaku, two sticks connected by a chain and used as a weapon by Bruce Lee in the movie.

The 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 swapped for an unknown reason so this film has carried the title The Chinese Connection ever since, 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.

This film is arguably Bruce Lee's most influential work, 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.

Cast

Bruce Lee
as Chen Zhen

Nora Miao
as Yuan Le-erh

James Tien Chang as Chun-hsia

Maria Yi as Yen

Riki Hashimoto as Hiroshi Suzuki "Mr. Suzuki"

Robert Baker as Petrov "The Russian"

Lam Ching Ying
(Stuntman)

Memorable Lines

"Listen to me...I'm only going to say this once- we are not sick men."(after defeating the Japanese Karate school, for the first time)
"So- why did you kill my teacher then?! Why?! Why?! Why?!...Why did you kill my teacher?!" (after capturing one of them men responsible for his teacher's death. Chen originally means to interrogate him, but in a fit of rage- kills him)

Trivia

Sync Sound was not widely used in Hong Kong cinema until the 1990s so the voices (even on the original Chinese track) for this movie were dubbed. On the Chinese track, listen for the voice of the Russian fighter when he speaks English. It is none other than Bruce Lee himself (with added reverb).

Jackie Chan appears as an extra in the school training scenes just before the Japanese spring a surpise attack on the school. He was also the stuntman for the Japanese villain, "Mr. Suzuki", in the final scenes of Fist of Fury. He can be seen flying through the air after Bruce's character delivers a flying kick. Jackie, fell much farther than originally intended, at a height of 15 feet. After it had been caught on film, Bruce rushed over to see if he was okay.

It is said that during the scene when Chen delivers the line "We Chinese are not sick", after defeating the students of the Judo school, the audience at the Hong Kong premier of the movie stood up and cheered.

ATV (A terrestrial channel in Hong Kong), made a 40 episode TV serial of Fist of Fury starring Donnie Yen
as Chen. The last 10 episodes have a similar plot to the movie while the first 30 is about Chen joining the Chin Wu school.

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