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The Way of the Dragon

Midnight Screenings 2023 / Meng long guo jiang / Hong Kong 1972

The Way of the Dragon The Way of the Dragon

Synopsis

To mark the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Bruce Lee, the Karlovy Vary film festival is screening one of the most important action films in the history of cinema. The Way of the Dragon is the third and most distinctive of the Hong Kong films that made Lee an international star. Unlike The Big Boss or Fist of Fury, it is set not in Asia but in Rome, where Lee's character comes to the aid of his relatives against a mafia syndicate. From today’s perspective, the film is a survey of Lee’s iconic scenes, including his screams imitating the meowing of cats and his final battle against Chuck Norris in the Colosseum. For this outing, Lee sat in the director’s chair as well and thus had full control over his last film.

Antonín Tesař

About the film

100 min / Color, DCP

Director Bruce Lee / Screenplay Bruce Lee / Dir. of Photography Tadashi Nishimoto / Music Joseph Koo / Editor Peter Cheung / Producer Raymond Chow / Production Concord Production Inc. / Cast Bruce Lee, Chuck Norris, Malisa Longo, Nora Miao, Robert Wall, Tony Liu, Unicorn Chan / Sales Fortune Star Media Limited

About the director

Bruce Lee

Bruce Lee (1940, San Francisco – 1973, Hong Kong). Selected filmography as actor: The Green Hornet (1966–1967, TV series), The Big Boss (Tang shan da xiong, 1971), Fist of Fury (Jing wu men, 1972), The ​Way of the Dragon​ (1972), Enter the Dragon (Long zheng hu dou, 1973), Game of Death (Si wang you xi, 1978).

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Fortune Star Media Limited
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