New Fist of Fury (1976)

Original title

新精武門

Directed by

Lo Wei

Genre

drama film, action film, Bruceploitation, martial arts film, historical film

Country

Hong Kong

Runtime

1h 54m

Rated

18

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 94 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young martial artist arrives in a Japanese-occupied city and gets drawn into a fight against local bullies. The film is a sequel to the Bruce Lee classic but stars Jackie Chan in a dramatic action role.

earnestgrittymelodramaticsomberbruceploitationretroseriousold-school

What happens

New Fist of Fury is a 1976 Hong Kong martial arts film directed by Lo Wei and starring Jackie Chan. It is the first of several films that Lo directed Chan in, and the first using Chan's stage name Sing Lung (Chinese: 成龍, literally meaning "becoming a dragon", by which Chan is still known today in Asia). The film gave Chan his first starring role in a widely released film (his first starring role was in the Little Tiger of Canton, which only had a limited release in 1973). The film was a sequel to Bruce Lee's Fist of Fury, one of Lo Wei's biggest successes. Chan had previously appeared in the original Fist of Fury as a stuntman. New Fist of Fury was part of Lo's attempt to market Jackie Chan as the new Bruce Lee, and did not contain any of the comedy elements that were to be Chan's career trademark later on. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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