The Way of the Dragon (1972)

Action, Adventure, Crime, General Film, Martial Arts

Director: Bruce Lee

Writer(s): Bruce Lee

Starring: Bruce Lee, Nora Miao, Chuck Norris, Ping Ou Wei, Chung-Hsin Huang, Robert Wall, Ing-Sik Whang, Ti Chin, Tony Liu, Little Unicorn, Malisa Longo, Ngan Wu, Fu Ching Chen, Jon T. Benn, John Kenny, Robert Baker, Riccardo Billi, Russell Cawthorne, Franz Colangeli, John Derbyshire, Alexander Grand, Barry Haigh, Jim James, Michael Kaye, Ching-Ying Lam, Giuseppe Marrocco, Andre Morgan, Anders Nelsson, Matthew Oram, Marco Pane, Ho Pich, Homan Tapsell

Synopsis: Tang Lung arrives in Rome to help his cousins in the restaurant business. They are being pressured to sell their property to the syndicate, who will stop at nothing to get what they want. When Tang arrives he poses a new threat to the syndicate, and they are unable to defeat him. The syndicate boss hires the best Japanese and European martial artists to fight Tang, but he easily finishes them off. The American martial artist Colt is hired and has a showdown with Tang in Rome’s famous Colosseum.

Release Date: August 14, 1972 (USA) | Length: 90 min | Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Martial Arts | Certificate: R

Note: I wasn’t able to identify two of the “thugs” in the film. They also appear in archive footage in Game of Death.

 

 

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