History Film / FistOfFury

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Chen sacrifices himself to the Japanese and face execution to spare his friends from being arrested.]]
%%* FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler: See Downer Ending.]]

* HeroicBSOD: Chen at first seems like he would pull through the funeral once arriving, but then utterly snaps when he sees his teacher being buried. Going as far as trying to dig him back, up while they were burying him. However once calmed, he spends most of the movie in this trope. [[NiceJobFixingItVillain That is until Suzuki's men come to the funeral]] and [[BerserkButton insult the Teacher along with the entire Chinese community.]]

* KickTheDog: The Japanese school gets a RIDICULOUS number of these. Here's a short count: crashing the funeral of Chen's master, poisoning Chen's master, trying to get Chen to bark like a dog to enter a park forbidden to Chinese, siccing the police on Chen, [[spoiler:plotting to MURDER the entire Kung Fu school]]. The list goes on and on.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: People keep being racist, abusive, or disrespectful to Chen.

''Fist of Fury'' (Chinese: 精武門; aka ''The Chinese Connection'' and The ''Iron Hand'' in the United States. It starred Bruce Lee in his second major film after ''Film/TheBigBoss''. BruceLee plays Chen Zhen, a student of Huo Yuanjia, who fights to defend the honor of the Chinese and to bring to justice those responsible for his master's death. The movie has themes of racism and the consequences of revenge.

''Fist of Fury'' (Chinese: 精武門; aka ''The Chinese Connection'' and The ''Iron Hand'' in the United States. It starred Bruce Lee in his second major film after The Big Boss. BruceLee plays Chen Zhen, a student of Huo Yuanjia, who fights to defend the honor of the Chinese and to bring to justice those responsible for his master's death. The movie has themes of racism and the consequences of revenge.

* BruceLee: Obviously.

* ActionHero: Chen. {{Deconstructed|Trope}}.
* {{Badass}}: Chen, obviously.
** The Russian expatriate as well.

* BullyingADragon: A semi-literal case since they're bullying BRUCE LEE.

* CombatPragmatist: Chen, unsurprisingly if you know anything about Jeet Kune Do. While he prefers to use his fists, he makes no attempt to continue fighting 'fair' once the Japanese start cheating.

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Chen sacrifices himself to the Japanese and certain execution to spare his friends from being arrested.]]
** [[spoiler: Not just certain execution. We see it happen outside of the dojo.]]
*** Some people, of course prefer to think [[spoiler: he's just hiding. This is complete {{Fanon}} though.]]

* IncorruptiblePurePureness: Virtually the entire kung fu school other than Chen. They react remarkably well to a pretty horrific series of events.
** Yuan Le-erh, especially.

* KatanasAreBetter: Played with. Wielding katanas are the only time the two heads of the karate school are ever threatening to Chen.
** Played with as the weapons aren't portrayed as inherently awesome, just... well... swords in a fist-fight.

* MightyWhitey: An interesting aversion. While Chen is the absolute biggest badass in the movie, the ONLY person who gives him a hard time is the Russian expatriate.
** Perhaps not coincidentally, the Russian is the only one who actually fights him alone and with pure martial arts.
*** Chen also has no grudge against Petrov. He's just a bystander visiting the karate school.

* PunchClockVillain: Petrov, the Russian friend of the Japanese dojo.

* TheQuisling: The Interpreter.

* TranquilFury: Played with. Chen absolutely SEETHES virtually every moment he's on screen but only shows it in small ways.
** Quite possibly the most epic example in all of fiction.
*** There's one exception, when Chen tries to throw himself on his master's coffin.

* DeathByRacism: Not quite death but Chen kicks the ass of numerous people who are racist towards him.
** [[spoiler: A more literal example occurs with Chen himself. While guilty of a ridiculous number of crimes, there is absolutely no justice in his arrest. The Japanese rule Shanghai and not even the massacre of the kung-fu school would have gotten the karate school punished.]]

* [[spoiler:DownerEnding: Chen sacrifices himself to the Japanese and certain execution to spare his friends from being arrested.]]

* [[spoiler: FaceDeathWithDignity: See Downer Ending.]]

* [[spoiler:SuicideByCop: Chen didn't really have a choice, though.]]

* IdiotBall: The first attack on the kung fu school, in retaliation for Chen's first attack. There's no reason for them to believe Chen - who just wiped the floor with the entire school - wouldn't be there. Only plot contrivance caused them to avoid fighting Chen and lots of back-up.

* HeroicBSOD: Chen at first seems like he would pull through the funeral once arriving, but then utterly snaps when he sees his teacher being buried. Going as far as trying to dig him back, up while they were burying him. However once calmed, he spends most of the movie in this trope. [[NiceJobFixingItVillain That is until Suzuki's men come to the funeral]] and [[BerserkButon insult the Teacher along with the entire Chinese community.]]

** Played with as the weapons aren't portrayed as inherently awesome, just...well...swords in a fist-fight.

** Perhaps not coincidentally, the Russian is the only one who actually fights him alone and with pure martial arts.

* [[spoiler: SuicideByCop: Chen didn't really have a choice, though.]]

* [[spoiler: DownerEnding: Chen sacrifices himself to the Japanese and certain execution to spare his friends from being arrested.]]

* KickTheDog: The Japanese school gets a RIDICULOUS number of these. Here's a short count: crashing the funeral of Chen's master, poisoning Chen's master, trying to get Chen to bark like a dog to enter a park forbidden to Chinese, siccing the police on Chen, [[spoiler: plotting to MURDER the entire Kung Fu school]]. The list goes on and on.

** [[WordOfGod Bruce Lee openly admitted]] that in RealLife, nunchaku versus the katana was actually an uneven match and [[DontTryThisAtHome should be avoided]].

* KickTheDog: The karate school has a lot of them.

* BerserkButton: Looking down on Chen for being Chinese.
** One for Bruce Lee as well and well, who could blame him?
*** Also, killing Chen's master.

* ShallowLoveInterest: While Yuan Le-erh is well-acted, it's fairly obvious she's only there to add pathos to Chen's plight.