The claw of death hits up again

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Movie
German title The claw of death hits up again
Original title 猛龍過江
Meng long guo jiang
Country of production Hong Kong
original language Cantonese , English , Mandarin
Publishing year 1972
length 100 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Bruce Lee
script Bruce Lee
production Bruce Lee,
Raymond Chow
music Joseph Koo
camera Nishimoto Tadashi
(as Ho Lan-Shan )
cut Peter Cheung
occupation
  • Bruce Lee : Tang Lung
  • Nora Miao : Chen Ching Hua
  • Chuck Norris : Colt
  • Robert Wall : Fred (Bob)
  • Jon T. Benn: gang boss
  • Paul Wei: Ho, the boss's right hand man
  • Chung-Hsin Huang: Uncle Wang
  • Unicorn Chan: Jimmy
  • Tony Liu: Tony
  • Chin Ti: Quen
  • Tommy Chen: Tommy
  • Hwang In-Shik: Japanese martial arts expert
  • John Derbyshire : gangsters
  • Malisa Longo : prostitute

The Death Claw Strikes Again (also known as Bruce Lee: The Fist of the Dragon and under the international title Way of the Dragon ) was the first film by the Concorde production company founded by Bruce Lee . The film belongs to the genre of martial arts film .

Bruce Lee not only acted as the main actor, but was also director , screenwriter and fight scene choreographer. The death claw strikes again , which premiered on December 30, 1972 in Hong Kong , became a worldwide success.

action

Tang Lung, a young man and fighter from Hong Kong, travels to Rome to help Chen Ching-hua, a relative, in the fight against a gang of gangsters who are trying by all means to take over their restaurant. After Tang Lung has beaten the first thugs easily to flight, the nameless gang boss gets reinforcements in the form of a European ( Robert Wall ) and a Japanese martial arts expert ( Hapkido master Hwang In-shik ). After they fail to neutralize Tang Lung, the American karate master Colt is waiting for him. In the Colosseum of Rome there is a final duel between the giants. Tang Lung kills his opponent after he refused to admit defeat. Two waiters at the restaurant, Jimmy and Tony, are stabbed to death by Uncle Wang, and it now becomes clear that Uncle Wang is a traitor and was planning to sell the restaurant in order not to have to go back to Hong Kong as an unsuccessful man. The gang boss appears and shoots his right hand and Uncle Wang, but Tang Lung is able to hide cleverly behind a tree. The police appear and arrest the gang boss. Quen and Chen Ching-hua say goodbye to Tang Lung at the end of the film, who is making his way back to Hong Kong.

criticism

“Artistic arranged fights with the participation of various martial arts artists from different countries. Lee's most famous and last film was shown in its entirety in 1991 as "Bruce Lee - The Dragon's Fist". "

useful information

  • Lee's role name Tang Long (Cantonese Tong Lung ) means "dragon from China". For the role of Colt, Lee originally wanted to hire the karate and kickboxing master Joe Lewis , who was also one of his students. However, this refused, and Chuck Norris took his place.
  • The Chinese title of the film is Meng long guo jiang , Maang lung goh kong in Cantonese and means "The wild dragon crosses the river". The opening credits of the film show a dragon boat sailing from China to Italy. A lot of filming took place in Rome . For further filming, the backdrop of the Colosseum was recreated in a film studio in Hong Kong.
  • In Hong Kong, the film grossed more than 5 million Hong Kong dollars . At the US box office, more than 11 million US dollars followed, although the film was only shown here in 1974.
  • In Germany, the movie was released in August 1975. The FSK cut several fight scenes, including "several particularly brutal kicks" from the final fight between Tang Lung and Colt. The scene in which Tang Lung "apparently breaks the spine" of his opponent lying below had to be completely removed.

Individual evidence

  1. The death claw strikes again. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed November 2, 2018 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  2. Tobias Hohmann: Norris, p. 37
  3. Tobias Hohmann: Norris, Hille 2013, p. 38
  4. Tobias Hohmann: Norris, p. 43
  5. Jürgen Kniep: “No youth release!” Film censorship in West Germany 1949 - 1990 , Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2010, p. 251

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