New Fist of Fury

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New Fist of Fury
NewFistOfFury poster.jpg
1976 film poster
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese 新精武門
Simplified Chinese 新精武门
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin Xīn Jīng Wǔ Mén
Directed by Lo Wei
Written byLo Wei
Pan Lei
Produced byHsu Li Hwa
Starring Jackie Chan
Nora Miao
Chan Sing
CinematographyChan Chiu-yung
Chan Wing-shu
Edited byLee Yim-hoi
Distributed byLo Wei Motion Film Productions
Release date
  • 8 July 1976 (1976-07-08)
Running time
114 minutes
CountryHong Kong
LanguageMandarin
Box office US$155,677 (est.)

New Fist of Fury is a 1976 Hong Kong martial arts film directed by Lo Wei and starring Jackie Chan. [1] It is the first of several films that Lo directed Chan in, and the first using Chan's stage name Sing Lung (Chinese :成龍, literally meaning "becoming a dragon", by which Chan is still known today in Asia).

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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. Chan had previously appeared in the original Fist of Fury as a stuntman. 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.

Cast

Alternate versions

Plot

1976 version

A brother and sister escape from Japanese-occupied Shanghai to Japanese-occupied Taiwan to stay with their grandfather, who runs a kung fu school there. However, the head of a karate school in Taiwan wants to bring all other schools on the island under his domination, and part of his plan involves the murder of the grandfather. Undaunted, the two siblings reestablish their grandfather's school, leading to a final confrontation with the karate master. Jackie Chan plays a young thief who initially shuns kung fu, but realizes that he can no longer stand by and let the Japanese trample on the rights of the Chinese people. He proves extremely adept at the martial arts and carries the fight to its conclusion.

1980 version

A young Taiwanese thief steals a nunchaku after fighting two Japanese men, whom he assumes belong to a nearby Japanese kung fu school (Da Yang Gate). The school offers him a job at a casino but he refuses, and he is beaten up as a result. He is rescued by the surviving members of the Jingwu school and they invite him to Mao Li Uhr's grandfather's 80th birthday celebration, where a group of Japanese decide to gatecrash. This causes the grandfather to die of a heart attack. The Jingwu students acquire his home and convert it into a new school. The Japanese council closes the school and the thief realizes that he can no longer stand by and let the Japanese trample on the rights of the Chinese people. He proves extremely adept at the martial arts and carries the fight to its conclusion.

Box office

In Hong Kong, the film grossed HK$456,787.20 [1] ( US$93,222). [2] Upon its 1988 release in South Korea, it sold 11,421 tickets in Seoul, [3] equivalent to an estimated gross revenue of approximately 45.684 million [4] (US$62,455). [5] This adds up to an estimated total gross of approximately US$155,677 in Hong Kong and Seoul, equivalent to US$860,000 adjusted for inflation.

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References

  1. 1 2 "New Fist of Fury (1976)". Hong Kong Movie Database . Retrieved 15 June 2020.
  2. "Official exchange rate (HK$ per US$, period average)". World Bank . 1976. Retrieved 7 December 2018.
  3. "영화정보" [Movie Information]. KOFIC (in Korean). Korean Film Council. Archived from the original on 25 December 2018. Retrieved 26 August 2019.
  4. Park, Seung Hyun (2000). A Cultural Interpretation of Korean Cinema, 1988-1997. Indiana University. p. 119. Average Ticket Prices in Korea, 1974-1997 [...] * Source: Korea Cinema Yearbook (1997-1998) * Currency: won [...] Foreign [...] 1988 [...] 4,000
  5. "Official exchange rate (KRW per US$, period average)". World Bank . 1982. Retrieved 7 December 2018.