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The Big Boss (Chinese: 唐山大兄; originally titled as Fists of Fury in the United States) is a 1971 Hong Kong martial arts film directed by Lo Wei (who also wrote the film) and Wu Chi-hsiang. Bruce Lee stars in his first major film in a lead role, and his first Hong Kong film since 1960.
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.
Ni Kuang, the prolific Hong Kong writer behind the Wisely series of sci-fi novels as well as over 300 film screenplays including the classic martial arts films One-Armed Swordsman and The 36th ...
Lo Wei ([2] 12 December 1918 – 20 January 1996) was a Hong Kong film director and actor best known for launching the martial arts film careers of both Bruce Lee, in The Big Boss [3] and Fist of Fury, [4] and Jackie Chan, in New Fist of Fury. [3]
Highest-grossing films of 1971 Rank Title Distributor Domestic gross 1 Billy Jack: Warner Bros. $98,000,000 2 Fiddler on the Roof: United Artists: $78,722,370 3 Diamonds Are Forever: United Artists $43,800,000 4 The French Connection: 20th Century Fox: $41,158,757 5 Summer of '42: Warner Bros. $32,063,634 6 Dirty Harry: Warner Bros. $28,153,434 ...
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The Big Boss, a German silent crime film; The Big Boss, a crime drama film with Gloria Dickson; The Big Boss, a 1971 Hong Kong martial arts-action film starring Bruce Lee; Big Boss, a 1995 Telugu film directed by Vijaya Bapineedu
When martial arts film star Bruce Lee died on July 20, 1973, he was Hong Kong's most famous martial arts actor, known for his roles in six feature-length Hong Kong martial arts films in the early 1970s: Lo Wei's The Big Boss (1971) and Fist of Fury (1972); Golden Harvest's The Way of the Dragon (1972) and the incomplete film Game of Death (1972), both directed and written by Lee; and Golden ...