Fist of Fury (Chinese: 精武門) is a 1972 Hong Kong martial arts film directed by Lo Wei and produced by Raymond Chow.

It also featured fairly realistic fight choreography for its time and also differs from other films in the genre for its historical and social references, especially to Japanese imperialism.

They present a sign to Jingwu School, bearing the words "Sick Man of East Asia", seemingly to insult Huo Yuanjia, describing the Chinese as "weaklings" in comparison to the Japanese.

Chen Zhen wants to retaliate, but is prevented by Fan Junxia, the most senior student in the school.

The guard blows his whistle to alert the police, but the citizens who watched the whole fight help Chen to escape the park.

While Suzuki is entertaining his visiting friend Petrov, Chen kills Wu and hangs his body from the lamp post.

The angry Suzuki heads to the Japanese Consulate and reports Chen, then on Tian's brother's advice sends his men to Jingwu School to kill everyone inside.

That same night, Chen barges into the dojo to take his revenge, killing the students' master, Yoshida, Petrov and Suzuki.

As they exit the school, Chen faces a line of armed Japanese soldiers and Western policemen at the outer gate, all pointing their guns at him.

Jackie Chan appeared in Fist of Fury, both as an extra and as a stunt double for the Japanese villain Hiroshi Suzuki (portrayed by Riki Hashimoto), particularly during the final fight scene where Lee kicks him and he flies through the air.

[3] That title was a means of tapping the popularity of another film, The French Connection (starring Gene Hackman), released in the U.S. in 1971.

[3] That title was intended to be used for the U.S. release of another Bruce Lee film, The Big Boss, which also involved drug smuggling.

[10] Fist of Fury became the year's seventh highest-grossing film in Japan, with ¥600,000,000 (equivalent to ¥1,300,000,000 in 2019) in distributor rental earnings.

Upon release in Asia, a review for Variety magazine in November 1972 called it a "Naive Hong Kong-made meller, of little U.S. commercial appeal" despite the "charm of Lee's invincible heroics."

[25] Gillett commented on Bruce Lee stating that he had "somewhat rudimentary and charmless acting style (all curled lips, sinister glances and clenched fists), but he performs his main function—that of keeping the action going through a series of furious karate fights—with considerable aplomb and proves as adept with his feet as with his fists.

"[25] While finding the story "extremely naive" and that the "anti-Japanese bias is more rather more pronounced" while the fight sequences "are staged with tremendous vigour (and a judicious use of slow-motion)" concluding that "the production values are only moderate, with a rather uneasy fusion of studio interiors and real street locations, and the English dubbing is unusually inept.

[26] On Metacritic, the film holds a weighted average score of 68 out of 100 based on four critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".

A year after, the film spawned the television series Fist of Fury (1995) starring Donnie Yen as Chen Zhen.