Good story, Not enough for a whole film

To all those who have watched it: I hope you enjoyed it as much as I do.

The acting in this movie is really good.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Even though this was really enjoyable movie. Big minus, we don't see Chen Shen in first 20-30 minutes, but when we see him, its ass kicking through entire movie. First Chen Shen fight is at graveyard, he is visiting his brothers grave and Japanese arrive. Japanese says: "Visiting grave is forbidden by Chinese". Then they attack Shen, but soon found out, it was big mistake. Shen easily beats up 4 Japanese and makes them to bow down to Shen's brother. After that scene, Chen Shen is introduced to Chinese Martial Arts school and every time Japanese attack school, Shen is taking care of them. However 1 scene is at inn and Shen is eating, Japanese arrive and attack Shen, again with no problem Shen beats them up. 2nd time, when Japanese arrive at inn, Shen is in 2nd level and teacher is drinking vine at 1st floor. That small Japanese takes vine bottle and holds it up in air and teacher is trying to drink. When Japanese takes their belts off, Shen has had it and attacks Japanese. In the end Shen holds bottle and small Japanese is trying to drink. Now were close to that scene, when Japanese order Shen to leave Shanghai, Shen does that, but there were Japanese spies in train and they're trying to kill Shen, Shen quickly jumps off train. Japanese goes with swords to Chinese school and kill some people, Shen goes there also and beats them up, then police arrives and says: "Take all wounded men and arrest them". Shen replies: "I killed all of those Japanese, arrest me". Police says: "Ok". Shen replies: "But I need to do a favor, give me 1 day and that small Japanese guy". Police says: "1 day". Now were in end fight and its Chen Shen versus a totally bad ass Japanese guy with Samurai sword. Shen says: "Lets solve this with fists". End fight shows Shen getting beaten up by Japanese guy, but in very end, Shen uses his fingers to fatally wound Japanese Boss. Boss knows, he is defeated, so he commits suicide. End of movie. Besides Bruce Li, there were really popular Chinese actors, including: Lieh Lo, Kun Li and James Nam.

All right, here we have another of the infamous "Bruceploitation" films, with the most popular of the wannabes, Bruce Li. Hey, wait, come back, this is actually a good Bruceploitation movie! But first, we need a minor history lesson...In 1972, the real Bruce Lee stars in Jing Wu Men/Cheng Mo Mun/Fist of Fury/Chinese Connection (or whatever else you want to call it), and of course, it's a hit. In 1976, three years after Lee's death and four years after Fist of Fury, Lo Wei now decides to look for the "new Bruce Lee" to film New Fist of Fury, and reels in Jackie Chan, or, as he would bill him, "Sing Lung". Seeing as how this was to be an "official" sequel to Fist of Fury in using the same director as well as a couple of veteran cast members (Nora Miao Ker Hsiu and Han Ying Chieh), plus having a star who didn't exactly try to impersonate Bruce Lee for once, you'd think it'd be good. It wasn't. It was overly long, very slow both in pacing and fight scenes, and the ending was one of those endings that feels like the director and writer just thought "uh, we don't have a real ending planned... eh, this'll do". Overall, for being the only official Bruce Lee sequel, it was just boring and no fun whatsoever.However, around the same time, the Shah Brothers (no not the ShaW Brothers, the ShaH Brothers... big difference) had coined the simple name Fist of Fury Part II before Lo Wei could use it, and decided to make an unofficial sequel. Similar to New Fist of Fury, Fist of Fury Part II brought in a couple of veteran cast members, in this case Tien Feng and Li Kun, both reprising their roles from the previous film. Now, if New Fist of Fury was as bad as it was, you would think this would be worse... it's actually better. The storyline is more coherent in that it directly follows the events from the end of the first film starting with the funeral of Bruce Lee's character Chen Zhen. The story deals with the Japanese ignoring Chen Zhen's final request in that the Japanese were to leave the Jing Wu school in peace, but instead invade the school and occupy it. It is at this time that Chen Zhen's brother, Chen Shen (played by, who else, Bruce Li) pays his respects at his grave site. It is here that a Jing Wu student in hiding tells Chen Shen of the trouble the school is facing and that he must help.That's pretty much the plot as the film is heavy on action while Lo Wei's "official" New Fist of Fury was lacking in action. The best part is just how much attention was spent in recreating the Jing Wu school to look virtually identical to the set from the Golden Harvest studios. Also, the new villain this time around is Miyamoto played by Lo "Five Figners of Death" Lieh who has a pretty damn good final fight with Bruce Li. Overall, this is the best example of a Bruce Lee sequel and one of Bruce Li's best. There IS a Fist of Fury III that does continue from here following Chen Shen's return home and the continuation of the Japanese occupation... but it's not nearly as good as this one. Also, good luck finding an uncut version of this film as the current US DVD is taken from a British video which cuts out all uses of the nunchucks. Try to find an out of print NTSC video on eBay if you can. Overall, this is worthy of a 6/10. Decent story, above par "Bruceploitation acting", nice set design, and pretty good fights. Worth a look!

Here are some updated info's for this excellent movie. Bruce Li should have been as famous as Bruce Lee.. his action sequences are just as amazing and his acting is even better at times. This is a very good semi-sequel to Chinese Connection.. the USA version of fists of fury with Lee was the renamed BIG BOSS..Then Chinese Connection was the renamed Fist of Fury..confused yet? And don't even start with me about Bruce Le...Technical Details Actors Bruce Li ; Lo Leih ; Ti Fung ; Lee Quinn Director Jimmy Shaw Certificate 18 years and over Year 1976 Languages English - Stereo Duration 1 hour and 34 minutes (approx)

Chinese Connection II is supposed to be a sequel to Chinese Connection (called Fist of Fury in Hong Kong) but Golden Harvest beat them to it with the New Fist of Fury (starring Jackie Chan and most of the cast from the first film). Bruce Li (pronounced LEE) stars as Chen Shen, Zen's brother. Shen is out to avenge his murder and to put the beat down on those evil Japanese. Even if this movie wasn't horribly dubbed and cropped, the end results would have been the same. Bruce Li is no Bruce Lee and this movie shows it.The dubbing is bad and takes away from an already mediocre film. Turns a b-movie (by Hong Kong standards) into a Grade Z picture. Not recommended for solo viewing, but as a party film it's a must view.C