New Fist of Fury DVDrip {BALA}

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Presents
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Xin jing wu men
AKA
Fists to Fight/
New Fist of Fury
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Movie Information


Release year.........: 1976
Genre................: Action/Drama
IMDb rating..........: 5.2/10
IMDB Link............: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075439/
HKMDB Link...........: http://hkmdb.com/db/movies/view.mhtml?id=5710&display_set=eng
Language.............: English Dub
Subtitles............: None

Duration.............: 1h 59mn
Source...............: DVD R0 Bootleg
Format...............: MPEG-4
Format/Info..........: Base Media
File size............: 910 MB
Overall bit rate.....: 1 069 Kbps
Writing application..: HandBrake 0.9.8


Video/Audio Attributes


Format................: AVC
Format profile........: High@L3.0
Codec ID..............: avc1
Bit rate..............: 1 000 Kbps
Width.................: 710 pixels
Height................: 476 pixels
Display aspect ratio..: 4:3
Frame rate............: 24.363 fps
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)....: 0.121
Writing library.......: x264 core 120

Format/Info...........: Advanced Audio Codec
Bit rate mode.........: Variable
Bit rate..............: 64.2 Kbps
Channel(s)............: 2 channels
Channel positions.....: Front: L R
Sampling rate.........: 48.0 KHz
Compression mode......: Lossy



Plot summary


This movie is made by a company called Lo Wei Motion Picture Company Limited. Lo Wei is the director who directed the original "Fist of Fury". A director who purportedly did not get along so well with Bruce Lee, because he was listening to horse races while he was directing. He is the director in this movie as well.

After co-starring in Hand of Death, Jackie Chan was forced into an early retirement because of the shift in consumer tastes in movies. The Hong Kong audience was dissatisfied with the action films after the death of Bruce Lee, leaving an ever-widening amount of unemployed stuntmen and bit-players. Since Jackie was one of these casualties he retired to Australia to be with his family. There he did construction in the day and worked in a Chinese restaurant at night. Then he received a telegram from Willie Chan wanting him to work in a new film called New Fist of Fury, a sequel to the beloved Bruce Lee film Fist of Fury. He told him that the movie would be for the newly formed Lo Wei Productions and that the film would be directed by Lo Wei himself. Jackie would receive 3000 Dollars (HK) per month for acting(he would later receive 9000 for being the stunt coordinator.) Little did anyone know that this unknown actor would become a big boon to the industry; though, this would not happen for a while and would not happen(directly)because of this film.

New Fist of Fury is typical of a Lo Wei film, it lacks cohesion and character with an overuse of plot elements. The film starts after the destruction of the Ching Wu School in Shanghai. The remnants of the school, led by the delightful Miss Lee(Nora Miao), are forced to flee to Taiwan to avoid persecution from the Japanese. She will stay with her grandfather Su Onli who is the head of a martial arts school. Unfortunately, the Japanese are ubiquitous in Taiwan too. When her group arrives, they are the target of a thief Ah Lung(Jackie Chan) and his companion Old Chin(Hon Siu). Ah Lung steals a wooden box containing the prize weapon of the late Brother Chen(Bruce Lee in the superior Fist of Fury), nun-chucks. Later, after Helong is found in a ditch beaten half-to-death by the students of Chin Ching Kai, he is found by Miss Lees group and is nursed back to health. For all of this help and their forgiveness of him stealing their property, he refuses to learn Kung Fu so he can continuously be beaten up. Miss Lee has bigger problems than trying to get Helong to learn Kung Fu, the Japanese occupancy.

Akumora(Chan Sing) is the Japanese provincial leader who wants to combine the Chinese martial art schools under his Di Wah school. There is a great scene with him catching a knife in his teeth and then throwing it from his mouth killing an attacker. It is so hard to take this scene seriously, but it reminded me what Ed Wood might have done if he directed a Kung Fu film. Akumora is an interesting character that starts off semi-decent and then ends up completely anti-Chinese("I kill Chinese, just like I kill dogs.") This is another annoyance with the film; it is completely ethnocentric with one-dimensional Japanese characters. This annoyance is especially evident when Akumora challenges a staged Kwong Gung, stating that the Japanese heros are much better than Chineses heros. This infuriates Master Su during his 80th birthday celebration and leads to his death With the death of Master Su, Miss Lee decides to revive the Ching Wu School. This leads to an obvious clash with the Di Wah School.