The Fighting Fist of Shanghai Joe

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The Fighting Fist of Shanghai Joe
File:Mio nome Shanghai Joe (poster).jpg
Directed by Mario Caiano
Produced by Renato Angiolini
Roberto Bessi
Screenplay by Mario Caiano
Fabrizio Trifone Trecca
Story by Carlo Alberto Alfieri
Mario Caiano
Fabrizio Trifone Trecca
(as T.F. Karter)
Starring Chen Lee
Carla Romanelli
Gordon Mitchell
Piero Lulli
Katsutoshi Mikuriya
Giacomo Rossi-Stuart
Robert Hundar
Klaus Kinski
Music by Bruno Nicolai
Cinematography Guglielmo Mancori
Edited by Amedeo Giomini
Production
company
C.B.A. Produttori e Distributori Associati
Compagnia Cinematografica Champion
Distributed by Jumbo Cinematografica
Release dates
 28 December 1973
Running time
 98 minutes
Country Italy
Language Italian

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. The film was released in a number of 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

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  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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