FIST of FURY (dvd) *NEW* rare import, Bruce and 12 similar items

Region free import could be a slightly differant version than seen here domestically. Case has bi-lingual text, the cover touts " Exclusive unseen footage from the lost Bruce Lee classic 'Game of Death'!", or this could simply be a preview. That was the movie that he didn't finish because of his death (a double was used to finish it). The feature is letterboxed so newer TV owners will have to use one of your zoom modes for the widescreen effect. Optional English soundtrack though, means it could be the same version as seen in America. Set in the Shanghai of the late twenties, the film depicts a society in which the Chinese are all but spit upon by the Japanese rulers. The racism has become so manifest that a rival Japanese martial arts school has poisoned Lee's "sifu" (martial arts master). It appears that almost every waking moment of the Japanese rivals was used to persecute Lee's school and it's students. Lee, playing a fighter named Chen, has promised no one to hold back. Using a series of disguises, including that of a rickshaw puller and, in a delightful turn, of a grinning, mincing phone repairman, Lee discovers the murderers and takes them apart. The mood of the picture is set by Lee smashing a "No Dogs or Chinese" sign outside a Shanghai park with a 'Marlowe'-type kick. From there he wades through the Japanese school, taking out all the students, the sword master, a brawny Russian fighter (played by Jeet Kune Do student Robert Baker), and, finally, the head of the school. It is this series of bouts that make up the heart of the action. Lee is nothing short of masterful in each. When fighting the Russian, he is caught in a leg scissors but bites the man in order to escape. Then his arms swirl stroboscopically in front of the confused opponet. Finally he faces his main adversary with the infamous nunchakas--the small clubs joined by a short length of chain which Lee made famous. Supposedly Lee learned the particular nunchaka skill with his star student Daniel Inosanto. However he learned it, he had chosen a particularly impressive, esoteric weapon to dazzle viewers with. To see Lee swirl and spin the sticks with ridiculous ease was to experience pure enchantment. The moment of the character Chen's greatest triumph was the moment of Lee's ascension to superstardom. Watch closely for a young Jackie Chan as an extra and a stunt double for the main Chinese villain Hiroshi Suzuki. Especially when Bruce Lee kicks him and he flies through the air.