All these things happen even today, 30 years after the film's release so the subject matter is definitely universal as it was back then in 1972. Maybe the intention was to tell something about us who cannot live in peace with each other. Then again, the film makes me wonder about racism in general since there is so much mayhem in the film and so many Chinese and Japanese get killed by each other, so maybe this film was not meant to be racist at all. This film is prehaps little too racist towards Japanese since they are depicted as dirty and greedy criminals here and some lines in the script are very underlining and judge the Japanese people too much. Soon it is revealed that the death was without a doubt a murder and our fierce hero is going to solve the mystery.With the power of his fists and kicks. Fist of Fury tells the story of Chen (Lee) who arrives in Shanghai to his martial art school, only to learn that his beloved teacher has died and the funeral is going on when he arrives. Film maker Lo Wei directed this Bruce Lee classic Fist of Fury immediately after the success of Lee's first martial art film, The Big Boss.
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