The Fighting Fist of Shanghai Joe

The Fighting Fist of Shanghai Joe
Directed byMario Caiano
Screenplay byMario Caiano
Fabrizio Trifone Trecca
Story byCarlo Alberto Alfieri
Mario Caiano
Fabrizio Trifone Trecca
(as T.F. Karter)
Produced byRenato Angiolini
Roberto Bessi
StarringChen Lee
Carla Romanelli
Gordon Mitchell
Piero Lulli
Katsutoshi Mikuriya
Giacomo Rossi-Stuart
Robert Hundar
Klaus Kinski
CinematographyGuglielmo Mancori
Edited byAmedeo Giomini
Music byBruno Nicolai
Production
companies
C.B.A. Produttori e Distributori Associati
Compagnia Cinematografica Champion
Distributed byJumbo Cinematografica
Release date
  • 28 December 1973 (1973-12-28)
Running time
98 minutes
CountryItaly
LanguageItalian

The Fighting Fist of Shanghai Joe (Italian: Il mio nome è Shanghai Joe, lit. "My name is Shanghai Joe") is a 1973 spaghetti Western kung fu film directed by Mario Caiano and starring Chen Lee as Shanghai Joe. It was released under alternate titles in the United States, including To Kill or to Die and The Dragon Strikes Back.[1]

Plot

A Chinese immigrant skilled in martial arts arrives in America and travels to Texas looking for honest work. Wherever he goes he encounters racism. He soon impinges on the interests of a slave trader called Spencer, which results in a price being put on his head. "Shanghai Joe" uses his martial arts expertise to free the Mexican slaves from their cruel master. Spencer and his friends then hire the four most terrifying bounty hunters of the West, among them a cannibal, a scalp hunter, a killer who skins his victims, and another martial arts champion, his old friend Mikuja.

Cast

DVD release

On May 26, 2009, a Region 0 DVD of the movie was released by Alpha Video.[3]

References

  1. ^ Robert Firsching (2011). "New York Times: My Name Is Shanghai Joe". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2011-05-21. Retrieved 2008-10-25.
  2. ^ "The Fighting Fists of Shanghai Joe Review (Scherpschutter) - the Spaghetti Western Database".
  3. ^ Euro-Western Double Feature: The Fighting Fists of Shanghai Joe (1972) / Any Gun Can Play (1967) DVD info, Oldies.com


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