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Released
1972 · FILM

The Way of the Dragon

A skilled kung fu master travels to Rome to protect a Chinese restaurant from a ruthless mafia syndicate, fighting to keep the family’s livelihood safe.

“The Colosseum . . the battleground of Bruce Lee and Chuck Norris.”

Directed by
Bruce Lee
Written by
Bruce Lee
Rated
FSK · FSK 18
Runtime
100 min
Language
CN
ActionAdventureComedy

Synopsis

When a Chinese restaurant in Rome faces threats from the mafia, which seeks to take over the property by any means necessary, the owner enlists the help of a family friend in Hong Kong, kung fu expert Tang Lung, to defend their business.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 43+ credited

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 Peter CheungShot by Tadashi NishimotoScored by Joseph Koo

Box Office

1972 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 208× 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

$27.0M

Budget$130K
Worldwide gross$27.0M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Bruce Lee - Die Todeskralle schlägt wieder zude
  • Die Todeskralle schlägt wieder zude
  • The Way of the Dragonen
  • Way of the Dragonen
  • Way of the Dragones
  • La Fureur du dragonfr
  • L'urlo di Chen terrorizza anche l'occidenteit

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