The Way of the Dragon(Movie, 1972)

Name: The Way of the Dragon
Genre: Action, Crime
Released: 1972
Duration: T01:40:00
Rating: 3.7

Original title: "猛龍過江" (Chinese (Cantonese)/CN)

1h 40min | Genres: Action, Crime

Rating: 3.7/5 (with 471 votes)

The Way of the Dragon (Chinese: 猛龍過江, originally released in the United States as Return of the Dragon) is a 1972 Hong Kong martial arts action comedy film co-produced and directed by Bruce Lee, who also stars in the lead role. This is Lee's only complete directorial film and the last one released during his lifetime. The film co-stars Nora Miao, Robert Wall, Wei Ping-ou and Chuck Norris (playing his debut screen role). The Way of the Dragon was released in Hong Kong on 30 December 1972, and in the United States in August 1974. The film went on to gross an estimated US$130 million worldwide (equivalent to over $700 million adjusted for inflation), against a tight budget of $130,000, earning a thousand times its budget. It was the highest-grossing Hong Kong film up until Lee's next film Enter the Dragon (1973). The film is primarily set in a restaurant in Rome. T... ()

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About The Way of the Dragon

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.

Trailer for The Way of the Dragon + Featurettes/Teaser/Clips

HONG KONG MOVIES | WAY OF THE DRAGON (1972) | Original Theatrical Trailer(Trailer, 0:45)

Additional Information

Production country: Hong Kong

Shot in: Rome, Colosseum

Plays in: Rome, Colosseum

Made by: Golden Harvest Company, Concord Productions Inc.

Original language: Chinese (Cantonese) (CN)

Spoken languages: Chinese (Cantonese) (CN), English (EN), Italian (IT), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Translated into 29 languages: Arabic (AR), Bulgarian (BG), Catalan (CA), Czech (CS), Danish (DA), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Persian (FA), Finnish (FI), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Croatian (HR), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Romanian (RO), Russian (RU), Slovak (SK), Swedish (SV), Turkish (TR), Ukrainian (UK), Vietnamese (VI), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date GR: 06/01/1972

Cast: Nora Miao, Chuck Norris, Hwang In-shik, Robert Wall, Paul Wei Ping-ao, Bruce Lee, Malisa Longo, Unicorn Chan, Tony Liu, Riccardo Billi

Director: Bruce Lee

Producer: Raymond Chow, Bruce Lee, Riccardo Billi

Screenwriter: Bruce Lee

Composer: Joseph Koo

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"Way of the Dragon"

"O Vôo do Dragão"

"Meng long guojiang"

"Meng long guo jiang"

"El regreso del Dragon"

"Bruce Lee - Die Faust des Drachen"

"Bruce Lee - Die Todeskralle schlägt wieder zurück"

"Fury of the Dragon"

"猛龍過江"

"A Sárkány útja"

"راه اژدها"

"最後のブルース・リー／ドラゴンへの道"

"맹룡과강"

"Bruce Lee - The Way of the Dragon"

"Return of the Dragon"

Keywords: kung fu, restaurant, east asian lead, nunchaku, hong kong, fight, colosseum, combat, fistfight, martial arts, property, rome, italy, fish out of water, culture clash, hoodlum, action hero, gangster, honor, crime boss

Budget: 130,000 USD

Revenue: 27,000,000 USD (= 20,769%)