Cast
Bruce Lee as "Tang Lung" (a.k.a. "Dragon")
Nora Miao as "Chen Ching Hua"
Chuck Norris as "Colt"
Robert Wall as "Fred" (Colt's student)
Ing Sik Whang as "Japanese Martial Artist"
Wei Ping-Ao as "Translator"
Tang Lung (Bruce Lee) is sent from Hong Kong to Rome to help a family friend whose restaurant is being targeted by the local mafia. After their offers to purchase the restaurant outright are repeatedly turned down, the gangsters turn to intimidation. Tang Lung fends off the local gangsters, but that does not stop the mafia boss. He hires martial arts experts, the best of whom is known as "Colt" (Chuck Norris). This leads to a showdown between Tang Lung and Colt in the Colosseum.
Way of the Dragon was the first Hong Kong film to be partially shot on location on a Western continent.
The Italian gangsters in the film speak English, not Italian, because all of their scenes were shot in Hong Kong.
Only Bruce Lee and Nora Miao appear in the outdoor sequence showing Roman monuments.
Jackie Chan's Rumble in the Bronx is said to be a tribute to Way of the Dragon. The films have a similar plot: a young man travels to a foreign country to help out a troubled shop.
While it went largely unnoticed by Western viewers, the soup scene proved memorable to Chinese audiences. Campbell Soup had become a popular brand in Hong Kong when Way of the Dragon was first released.
The nunchaku scene was heavily edited when the movie first appeared in Britain.
Way of the Dragon is the only movie to show Bruce Lee wielding two nunchaku at once.
The original Chinese audio track has the Chinese characters speaking Chinese and the Italian gangsters speaking English. This distinction explains why Tang Long looks puzzled when the gangsters speak to him. In the English translation, everyone speaks English, so it is not immediately clear why he can understand some people but not others.
The film has garnered a cult following due in part to the fight scene between Bruce Lee and Chuck Norris.
National Review author and novelist John Derbyshire has an uncredited role in the film.
The video game Double Dragon Advance pays homage to one of the scenes in the movie in its official art.
Aside from Slaughter in San Francisco, it is the only other film in which Chuck Norris portrays a villain.
It is the only film in which a character played by Chuck Norris actually dies.
According to Chuck Norris, Bruce Lee pitched the idea of their duel in the Coloseum to him over the phone; Norris, who was the world karate champion at the time, says he asked Lee, "So you want to beat the world champion?", and, according to Norris, Lee responded, "No, I want to KILL the world champion."
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Way of The Dragon/Return of the Dragon Part 1
Cast
Bruce Lee as "Tang Lung" (a.k.a. "Dragon")
Nora Miao as "Chen Ching Hua"
Chuck Norris as "Colt"
Robert Wall as "Fred" (Colt's student)
Ing Sik Whang as "Japanese Martial Artist"
Wei Ping-Ao as "Translator"
Tang Lung (Bruce Lee) is sent from Hong K...
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