History YMMV / FistOfFury

* MexicansLoveSpeedyGonzales: Despite the film's... less than flattering depiction of the Japanese, it went on to become the 7th highest grossing film in Japan of that year.

* AcceptableEthnicTargets: The Japanese are portrayed as cowardly, depraved scumbags. This movie was released back when memories of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII (especially of Japanese war crimes) were still fresh in Chinese people's minds, but the whole thing was so unsubtle that Creator/BruceLee himself objected to the racism and quit working with the director after filming wrapped up. [[Film/FistOfLegend The 1994 remake]] thankfully does away with this, having noble and evil characters on both sides of the conflict.

* AcceptableEthnicTargets: The Japanese are portrayed as cowardly, depraved scumbags. This movie was released back when memories of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII (especially of Japanese war crimes) were still fresh in Chinese people's minds, but the whole thing was so unsubtle that Creator/BruceLee himself objected to the racism and quit working with the director after filming wrapped up. [[Film/FistOfLegend The 1994 remake]] thankfully [[OnceAcceptableTargets does away with this]], having noble and evil characters on both sides of the conflict.

* AcceptableEthnicTargets: The Japanese are portrayed as cowardly, depraved scumbags. This movie was released back when memories of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII (especially of Japanese war crimes) were still fresh in Chinese people's minds. [[Film/FistOfLegend The 1994 remake]] thankfully [[OnceAcceptableTargets does away with this]], having noble and evil characters on both sides of the conflict.
** Creator/BruceLee himself objected to the racism and quit working with the director after filming wrapped up.

* MexicansLoveSpeedyGonzales: Despite the film's...less than flattering depiction of the Japanese, it went on to become the 7th highest grossing film in Japan of that year.

** It's quite obvious that nearly all of the film's exterior scenes were shot indoors on a fairly small soundstage, rather than on location. This only becomes more blatant in the scene where Chen is pulling Wu around Shanghai on a rickshaw, because he starts on a set, goes down an obviously real street for a bit, then stops on another set.

* AcceptableTargets: The Japanese are portrayed as cowardly, depraved scumbags. This movie was released back when memories of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII (especially of Japanese war crimes) were still fresh in Chinese people's minds. [[Film/FistOfLegend The 1994 remake]] thankfully [[OnceAcceptableTargets does away with this]], having noble and evil characters on both sides of the conflict.

* MainstreamObscurity: Bruce Lee is generally known through PopCulturalOsmosis as ''the'' prototypical action movie hero who uses spectacular martial arts to beat up FacelessMooks in a CurbstompBattle. Although this movie does include him doing this, most people oversee how in this movie he plays an AntiHero and a CombatPragmatist, not to mention the movie's BolivianArmyEnding – all these tropes are generally not associated with Bruce Lee.

** Chen swinging two Japanese martial artists around with one arm each in an overhead view where it's hilariously obvious that he's swinging dummies around.

* SpecialEffectsFailure: it's quite obvious that nearly all of the film's exterior scenes were shot indoors on a fairly small soundstage, rather than on location. This only becomes more blatant in the scene where Chen is pulling Wu around Shanghai on a rickshaw, because he starts on a set, goes down an obviously real street for a bit, then stops on another set.

* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments: The "No Dogs and Chinese Allowed" sign. While racism itself isn't funny, there's no way to make something like this up. But really, it's the absurdly over-the-top way Chen destroys the sign that really sells the hilarity.

* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments: The "No Dogs and Chinese Allowed" sign. While racism itself isn't funny, there's no way to make something like this up.

* MexicansLoveSpeedyGonzales: Despite the film's...less than flattering depiction of the Japanese, it went on to become the 7th highest grossing film in Japan that year.

* {{Narm}}: Chen murdering one of his teacher's killers with repeated punches to the torso and saying "Why did you kill my teacher? Why, why, why, why, why...?"

* CrowningMomentOfFunny: The "No Dogs and Chinese Allowed" sign. While racism itself isn't funny, there's no way to make something like this up.

%%* RomanticPlotTumor: Chen and Yuan.

* HarsherInHindsight: Chen questions how a healthy man like Huo Yuanjia die. 1 year later many of Creator/BruceLee's fans ask the same question about him.

* HarsherInHindsight: Chen questions how a healthy man like Huo Yuanjia die. 1 year later many of Lee's fans ask the same question about him.

* {{Main/Narm}}: Chen murdering one of his teacher's killers with repeated punches to the torso and saying "Why did you kill my teacher? Why, why, why, why, why...?"

* 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.
* KickTheSonOfABitch: It's difficult to feel sorry for the Interpreter during his abuse scenes.

* {{Main/Narm}}: Chen murdering one of his teacher's killers with repeated punches to the torso and saying "Why did you kill my teacher? Why, why, why, why, why...?"
* PunchClockVillain: Petrov, the Russian friend of the Japanese dojo.
** Subverted with the Interpreter. He tries to plead for his life, invoking this trope. It does not work.

* Narm: Chen murdering one of his teacher's killers with repeated punches to the torso and saying "Why did you kill my teacher? Why, why, why, why, why...?"

* 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 Japanese, siccing the police on Chen, [[spoiler: plotting to MURDER the entire Kung Fu school]]. The list goes on and on.