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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0026617971892
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: Beverly Wilshire
Manufacturer: Beverly Wilshire
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Beverly Wilshire
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 06, 2001
Running Time: 119 minutes
Sales Rank: 32565
Studio: Beverly Wilshire
Theatrical Release Date: 1976
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
This early film of Jackie Chan's was meant to shepherd him into the '70s kung fu genre pantheon made internationally popular by Bruce Lee. Indirectly it did, but probably more out of positioning than performance. Chan was to assume Lee's position as kung fu superstar, made evident by his role in New Fist of Fury (1976), the somewhat clunky chop-socky sequel to The Chinese Connection (on which Chan had worked as a stunt man). Directed by Wei Lo, New Fist of Fury picks up with two siblings fleeing a Japanese-occupied Shanghai for Taiwan, where their grandfather runs a Kung Fu school. However, a Japanese martial arts teacher has plans to run all the schools under his own name, eventually killing the grandfather. Chan plays a young thief who, at first, wants nothing to do with fighting but then finds his calling as the new leader of rebels against the Japanese occupation. Chan of course is no Bruce Lee (although during one dramatic sequence, a still of Lee is cut into the frame to 'remind' viewers of the filmmakers' intentions) but New Fist of Fury marks Chan's first entry as a leading actor in Hong Kong action films. --Shannon Gee
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - dont buy this
dont anytone buy this this a cheap rip off knock of of a jackie chan movie the case was cheap the printed insert was clearly done on a realy bad if not old printer and was total smeard and smudged with black ink all over place and the dvd was like watching a realy realy bad ep copy of a video tape..your better of buying a used copy of it on vhs i know i own the good one ...save your self the troulbe dont buy form this company.
Rating:  - Give "New Fist" A Chance!!!
I feel that many of the critics that rated New Fist of Fury as being horrible, a travesty of justice, Bruceploitation, and the like have flat out missed the point(especially, if they only watched the English dubbed version which makes this movie suck to death). I'm not going to bore everyone with storyline, plot, and character specifics...but think about it...while it may've been the intent to launch Jackie Chan into international stardom, what if the film's intent was to depict the succession of ... Read More
Rating: - Comeback movie (well first comeback) for Jackie
After co-starring in Hand of Death, Jackie Chan was forced into an early retirement because of the shift in consumer tastes in movies. The Hong Kong audience was dissatisfied with the action films after the death of Bruce Lee, leaving an ever-widening amount of unemployed stunt-men and bit-players. Since Jackie was one of these casualties he retired to Australia to be with his family. There he did construction in the day and worked in a Chinese restaurant at night. Then he received a telegram from ... Read More
Rating: - bad
jackie chan misses (he rarly does bad im sad to say he did)
didnt like it at all. not jackie chan style at all. bad fight scenes
Rating: - Why it wasnt very good
As the reviewers below me have said, jackie is supposed to play bruce lee's brother in this movie. After Bruce Lee died director Lo Wei tried to turn Jackie into bruces replancement, hence why they made a sequel to the classic Fist of Fury (the chinese connection) I have read Jackies autobiography I AM JACKIE CHAN: MY LIFE IN ACTION and he stresses how much he hated being called "the next bruce lee". He didnt want to play a serious and fearless character like bruce lee's was. On the bright side this ... Read More
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