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.
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Cast
- Bruce LeeTang Lung
- Nora MiaoChen Ching Hua
- Chuck NorrisColt
- Wei Ping-aoHo
- Huang Tsung-Hsun'Uncle' Wang
- Robert WallFred
- Hwang In-shikJapanese Fighter
- Ti ChinAh Quen
- Tony LiuTony
- Little UnicornJimmy
Recommendations
- 80
Empire
Way Of The Dragon is memorable purely for its final Coliseum-set showdown between Lee and Chuck Norris (at the time the holder of countless US and World Karate championships). This is the film that provides just about the best combat sequence ever shot. - 80
New York Magazine (Vulture)
The film’s appeal rests almost entirely on his fight scene with his student, Chuck Norris — arguably the best one ever captured on celluloid. - 75
TV Guide Magazine
Far from a perfect movie, or even Lee's best, but it shows that he may have developed into an original and talented filmmaker. - 60
Time Out
The film has the roughness you might expect in a first directorial effort, and also a perhaps unexpected leaning towards comedy. Lee makes great play on his character as the country boy without weapons confronting the denizens of the technologically-powerful West and winning hands down. - 60
Variety
Dragon is noteworthy more for the martial arts action than for narrative, which is all its fans probably want anyway. - 50
Chicago Sun-Times
This sort of stuff is magnificently silly, and Lee, to give him credit, never tried to rise above it. If a movie like this were directed seriously, it would be a disaster. - 50
The New York Times
Unlike its predecessor, Enter the Dragon, which was praised as a well-made movie, this picture is dreadfully slow and feeble whenever the cast isn't fighting. So you yearn for each battle, just as you wait impatiently for the songs or dances in a tedious musical.
