The Chinese Connection

Starring:Jun Arimura, Robert Baker, Tom Chan, Fu Ching Chen, San Chin, Yin-Chieh Han, Riki Hashimoto, Chung-Hsin Huang, Bruce Lee, Quin Lee, Yin Chi Lee, Tony Liu, Wei Lo, Nora Miao, Feng Tien, James Tien, Ping-Ao Wei, Fung Yi, Maria Yi, Wah Yuen
Director: Wei Lo
Studio: PASSPORT VIDEO
Product Type: DVD

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Description
Show #1 THE CHINESE CONNECTION Bruce Lee stars in his second Kung Fu movie. He plays a martial arts student mourning the death of his teacher. But after he learns jealous enemies from a rival Japanese martial arts school murdered his teacher, Lee goes on the path of vengeance. Watch Lee cut a swath through his enemies until he faces off against the mightiest practitioners of the deadly arts! It's flying fists and feet, nunchuks against swords! Karate champion Bob Wall appears as a Russian boxer. Can Bruce defeat him? Martial arts mayhem at its finest starring the one and only Bruce Lee!

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Bruce shines in this, his best the lot.......2007-05-22

I love this movie and still think its Lee at his best. Between the scene of him as a very awkward phone repairman, and the scene where he takes on a horde of bad guys with Nunchucks, this is his most complete performance on screen to me and showed his talent at its best. This transfer is of a much better quality than most of the releases out there of this movie. If you ever wanted to see just how good and talented Bruce was, just watch this one and find out.
The story is standard for these movies but Lee bumps the action and the acting up to give this one it's true classic reputation.

This is a review of the Laugh Track version.......2006-07-12

I wanted to like this but in the behind the scenes interviews they show little respect for Bruce Lee and that got me started off on the wrong foot. Then I watch it and it just isn't that clever. I did laugh once or twice but i expected something more along the lines of What's Up Tiger Lilly. At least they could have had the actors play orientals. Too bad because this concept could have been funny.

Sound is bad but the movie is good.......2006-06-12

The voices are dubed in and it is in a deep voice but there a some great fight seens but if you want to see a really good Bruce Lee movie get Enter the Dragon.The Chinese Connection is still a good movie

Authentic Bruce Lee.......2006-03-04

such a low rating for this movie! thats why i put my 5 stars here. this is the most authentic bruce lee you can ever watch. absurd soundtrack , fat guy ... really does not matter. its a purely raw kung fu classic, tenfold the sum of its parts!

one of the best, just so happens it was one of the first.......2006-03-02

Chinese connection will always hold a special place in my heart. I loved everything in this movie. If they didn't have that fat guy fighting bruce with a sword, this would be my favorite movie ever. The acting job by everybody was superb, also the soundtrack was really well applied to the different scenes. The action isn't up there with Fist of Legend, but it was the best for it's time, and I mean a long time. The kick at the end where the Japanese guy flies like 20 ft, that is actually Jackie Chan, so you are actually checking out the beginning of Jackie's career also.

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Sinewy, sleek, and oozing charisma, Bruce Lee brought sex appeal to the martial arts genre, dominating even the most cliché-riddled adventures with his mix of good-humored geniality and focused intensity. His first film, the low-budget Hong Kong adventure Fists of Fury (as it was titled in the U.S.), is exactly that: a raw, rough-edged revenge drama of a country boy who uncovers a heroin-smuggling ring. Yet the film comes alive when Lee pounces into action, his wiry, well-muscled frame erupting in lightning moves. His follow-up, The Chinese Connection, keeps the revenge theme going for a tale of a kung fu student who avenges his teacher's death at the hands of a Japanese rival. The international success of both films enabled the increasingly ambitious Lee to write and direct his own feature, Return of the Dragon, a more-comic tale of a Chinese country boy who travels to Rome to help out cousins under the thumb of local mobsters. Though filled with excellent martial arts bouts, all choreographed by Lee, the highlight is a death match between Lee and karate champion Chuck Norris in the Roman Colosseum. Lee died before completing his last feature, Game of Death, and a rather unconvincing double runs around much of the film between footage of the real Lee, but the climax features an impressive bout with basketball star and Lee student Kareem Abdul-Jabar. Though a cut above most martial arts movies of the period, these are no masterpieces, but then who watches a Bruce Lee film for the story? In these films, plot is simply there for the scenes between Lee's amazing fight sequences. The documentary Bruce Lee: The Legend completes the collection. --Sean Axmaker

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