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 (陳真; 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 (霍元甲; Cantonese: Fok Yun Gap) who, after the mysterious death of Huo, fought the Hongkou Dojo of Suzuki Taro.
The film takes place in the early 20th century, after the mysterious death of Huo Yuanjia, and during the occupation of Shanghai and virtually all of coastal 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 real Jing Wu school still survives to this day and can be found in many major cities abroad. Their headquarters are in Malaysia, and their students strive to keep the Jing Wu spirit to this day.
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: 「狗與華人不得入內」). After the turban-wearing Sikh guard at the park allows a foreigner's dog to enter the park, a man out of a group of Japanese approaches Chen and tells him that if he pretends to be a dog then he will take him inside. Chen becomes furious and proceeds to attack the Japanese with punches and kicks. He then kicks the offending sign in the air and breaks it with a flying kick. Another famous scene is when Chen enters the Japanese school to return a "gift" from the Japanese, which is a pejorative sign meaning "Sick man of Asia" (東亞病夫 or 亞洲病夫). After defeating the entire school, including the sensei, he destroys the glass-covered portrait of the aforementioned sign and forces two of the students to chew the paper so as to fulfill their promise that they would literally "eat their words" if they were defeated.
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.
Cast
Bruce Lee as Chen Zhen (traditional Chinese: 陳真; pinyin: Ch�n Zhēn)
Nora Miao as Yuan Le-erh
James Tien Chun as Fan Chun-hsia (范家祺)
Feng Tien as Fan (大師兄)
Paul Wei Ping-ao as Hu (胡恩)
Maria Yi as Yen
Lee Quin as Hsu
Lo Wei as Inspector (探長)
Hwong Chung Hsin as Tien the cook (田廚子)
Han Yin-chieh as Feng Kwai-sher (馮貴石)
Feng Wi as Yoshida (吉田, Yoshida?)
Tony Liu as Chin
Chin San as Tung
Riki Hashimoto as Hiroshi Suzuki (鈴木寛, Suzuki Hiroshi?)
Robert Baker as Petrov
Lam Ching Ying (Stuntman)
Jackie Chan (Stuntman, uncredited)-Appears as an extra in the school training scenes just before the Japanese spring a surprise 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.
One of the Japanese men during the park entrance scene is played by Yuen Wah, who later appeared in many other Hong Kong action films and in Stephen Chow's Kung Fu Hustle. He was also Bruce Lee's acrobatics double.
Box office
Bruce Lee's Fist of Fury managed to gross HK$4,358,928
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