Skip to main content
Filmarian
All films
Poster for The Last Dragon
Sign in to rateBe the first to rate
+ write a review
Released
1985 · FILM

The Last Dragon

A determined young martial artist sets out to find his legendary mentor and unlock the secret to ultimate power, but must first defeat a ruthless rival and rescue a captured singer from a dangerous music mogul.

“His family thinks he's crazy. His enemies think he's no challenge. But she knows he's THE LAST DRAGON.”

Directed by
Michael Schultz
Written by
Louis Venosta
Runtime
109 min
ActionComedyDrama

Synopsis

A young man embarks on a journey to find the "master" in order to achieve the highest level of martial arts mastery, known as the glow. During his quest, he must confront an evil martial arts expert and rescue a beautiful singer who is being held by an obsessed music promoter.

Credits

Actors
Editor
Production Designer
Director of Photography
Writers
Director

Related titles

No curated related titles yet. Use the edit affordance to add "More from this director", "Same franchise", or "Adaptation source material" entries — every change goes through the wiki review queue.

How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 19

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Christopher HolmesShot by James A ContnerScored by Misha SegalDesigned by Peter S Larkin

Box Office

1985 · Box office

✅ Made its money back — grossed 2.6× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$25.8M

Budget$10.0M
Worldwide gross$25.8M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $5.3M — 20% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $6.7M — 26% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,038 theaters

Also known as

  • Der Tanz des Drachende
  • El último dragónes
  • Le Dernier dragonfr
  • L'ultimo dragoit

Community tags

Be the first to tag this page — tags appear right away. Try a theme, capability, or subject (e.g. WWII, heist, slow burn, time travel, A24).

Help complete this page

We’re missing mpaa rating. Sign in to add what you know.