History Film / FistOfFury

** The first is a CrowningMomentOfAwesome where Chen heads to the karate school after they interrupt his master's funeral and proceeds to kick the entire school's ass by himself.

* ThugDojo: The Hon Kyu school. Surprisingly, despite being honorless jerks, their actual techniques aren't much different than Jing Wu.

* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: In the fact that there ''was'' a martial arts master in China named Huo Yuanjia, who was beloved and died under mysterious circumstances. A note at the beginning of the film (that says that otherwise ThisIsAWorkOfFiction) mentions that the writers created the story using one of the various theories that were flung around at the time (that he was assassinated).

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: A RealLife Example. After this movie was filmed, Bruce Quit Lo Wei's production, because of the unnecessary violence and racism. To make it even more awesome he practically took Golden Harvest and the cast with him as seen in WayOfTheDragon.

* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: Chen does this twice, once on the two men that killed his teacher. It didn't work because [[DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength Chen got too emotional and beat them to death.]] The second time, he does this with the Interpreter by throwing him and his rickshaw, demanding information on Suzuki. He succeeds, but ends up killing him anyway, because the Interpreter tries to sneak attack him with a brick once let go.

* BolivianArmyEnding: [[spoiler:The film very famously ends with Chen walking outside to be met with a line of Japanese policemen armed with rifles and pistols, trained on him. Realising he's going to die, he lets out a final cry and performs a running jump kick at them, the final frame catching him in mid-air as a crescendo of rifle fire sounds. Though being Bruce Lee, it's entirely possible that instead of him dying for the ending, it was instead he horribly slaughtered all of the policemen and the whole scene was cut out for being just too violent for television]].

* DefiantToTheEnd: [[spoiler:The film ends with Chen, the villains defeated and his master avenged, agreeing to take all the blame for the deaths of the karate school, saving his friends. He walks outside to find a row of Japanese policemen with their rifles and pistols trained on him. Realising he's going to be publically executed, he lets out a final cry and performs a running jump kick at them, the final freeze frame catching him in mid-air as a crescendo of rifle fire sounds. Though naturally, being Bruce Lee, it's entirely possible that instead of him dying for the ending, he instead horribly slaughtered all of the policemen and the whole scene was cut out for being just too violent for television...]]

%%* TheQuisling: The Interpreter.

''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''. Set during the UsefulNotes/SecondSinoJapaneseWar, Creator/BruceLee plays Chen Zhen, a student of Huo Yuanjia, who fights to defend the honor of the Chinese in Japanese-occupied Shanghai 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 ''Film/TheBigBoss''. Creator/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.

* VeryLooseLyBasedOnATrueStory: In the fact that there ''was'' a martial arts master in China named Huo Yuanjia, who was beloved and died under mysterious circumstances. A note at the beginning of the film (that says that otherwise ThisIsAWorkOfFiction) mentions that the writers created the story using one of the various theories that were flung around at the time (that he was assassinated).

** One which might easily be missed. [[spoiler: The Jingwu school is massacred but didn't go down without a fight. The karate school is annihilated killing them.]]

* DuelToTheDeath:

* FightingWithChucks: The most triumphant example in cinema.

* ImprobableHairstyle: The story is ''supposed'' to take place around the early 20th century, but most of the haircuts (or rather lack thereof) are clearly from the time period the film was shot, very evident on Petrov the Russian. And the hair isn't the only improbability...

* BigBad: Hiroshi Suzuki, he's a main villain of the movie.

* 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 ("No dogs and Chinese allowed"), siccing the police on Chen, [[spoiler:plotting to MURDER the entire Kung Fu school]]. The list goes on and on.

* RivalDojos: Combines with YouKilledMyMaster to be the premise of the movie. It's a fairly one-sided rivalry as well with the kung-fu school seemingly unaware of the seething hatred the karate school bears them at the start of the movie.

* RivalDojos: More or less the premise of the movie. It's a fairly one-sided rivalry as well with the kung-fu school seemingly unaware of the seething hatred the karate school bears them at the start of the movie.

* [[YouKilledMyFather You Killed My Master]]: The plot of the movie.

* ImprobableHairstyle: The story is ''supposed'' to take place around the early 20th century, but most of the haircuts (or rather lack thereof) are clearly from the time period the film was shot, very evident on Petrov the Russian.

** Also, killing Chen's master.

* IdiotBall: The Japanese's 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 karate school - wouldn't be there. Only plot contrivance caused them to avoid fighting Chen and lots of back-up.

%%* {{Badass}}:
%%** Chen, obviously.
%%** The Russian expatriate as well.

* LeftHanging: What was the motive for Huo Yuanjia's murder?