New Fist of Fury

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 (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. 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. However, the film did relatively bad at the box office, rendering this attempt at Bruceploitation moot.

Cast

• Jackie Chan as Ah Lung
• Nora Miao as Mao Li Er / Miss Lee
• Chan Sing as Okimura
• Luk Yat-lung as Lon Si Chun
• Yim Chung as Master Su, Mao's grandfather
• Suen Lam as Taiwan police captain Lin
• Cheng Siu-siu as Okimura's daughter
• Lau Ming as Ah Lung's mother
• Hon Siu as Ho Chin
• Han Ying-chieh as Hung
• Lo Wei as Inspector
• Chiang Kam as Sampo
• Liu Ping as Lin Chin Kui
• Yip Hoi-ching as Okimura's student
• Weng Hsiao-hu as Okimura's student
• Suen San-cheung as Japanese
• Hau Pak-wai as assassin
• Wang Chiang-liang as assassin
• Ho Wai-hung as assassin
• Tsang Ming-cheong as Kui's thug
• Chan Sam-lam as Kui's thug
• Shih Ting-ken as Kui's thug
• Lam Chung as Kui's thug
• Tai Chi-hsien as Kui's thug
• So Kwok-leung as Kui's thug
• Ho Ming-hiu as Kui's thug
• Wong Wing-sang as student
• Lee Lung-yam as student
• Yip Fei-yang as Jingwu student
• Ching Kuo-chung as Chun's student
• Ngai Loi as Japanese officer
• Chan Jan as Okimura's bodyguard
• Lee Siu-ming as Okimura's bodyguard
• Cheung Chung-kwai
• Ko Chang-sheng
• Wong Chi-sang
• Wong Kwok-fai
• Lui Wan-biu

1976/1980 versions

• In 1976, the film was released in Mandarin with a counterpart English version for export.
• To capitalise on Jackie Chan's success with The Young Master, the film was re-edited (removing 40 minutes of footage), given a Cantonese soundtrack and re-released in 1980.

DVDs

• On 18 June 2001, Seven 7 released the French theatrical version in 2.35:1 entitled La Nouvelle Fureur De Vaincre. The DVD featured no other language options.
• On 12 March 2002, Columbia Pictures released the 1976 version in 2.35:1 with Mandarin and English soundtracks. However, it featured dubtitles and is very slightly cut.
• On 25 March 2002, Eastern Heroes released an uncut version. However, this was cropped from 2.35:1 to 1.78:1 and only included an English dub. An extras was the export English trailer.
• On 25 October 2005, Universal Japan released the 1980 Cantonese version in 2.35:1, using newly-restored materials from Fortune Star. However, it features no English subtitles.
• On 21 May 2007, Hong Kong Legends also released the 1980 version, but instead contained the first soundtrack of Mandarin (in abridged form) with newly-translated English subtitles and an English dub. An extra is the first ten minutes of the export English version.

See also

• Jackie Chan filmography

External links

• New Fist of Fury at the Internet Movie Database
• New Fist of Fury at AllRovi