The Way of the Dragon
“The Colosseum . . the battleground of Bruce Lee and Chuck Norris.”
After a Chinese restaurant in Rome is threatened by the mafia, who will stop at nothing to acquire the property, the owner recruits a family friend in Hong Kong, kung fu expert Tang Lung, to help them defend their business.
Genres
Action, Crime
Studio
Orange Sky Golden Harvest
Language
cn
Status
Released
How The Way of the Dragon performed
Budget
$130,000
Worldwide Gross
$27.0M
Gross Profit
$26.9M
Return
207.7× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$4M
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~35/65, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (38% of the domestic run, typical for Action) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
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Cast
Tang Lung
Bruce Lee
Tang Lung
Chen Ching Hua
Nora Miao
Chen Ching Hua
Colt
Chuck Norris
Colt
Ho
Wei Ping-Ao
Ho
'Uncle' Wang
Huang Tsung-Hsun
'Uncle' Wang
Fred
Robert Wall
Fred
Japanese Fighter
Hwang In-shik
Japanese Fighter
Ah Quen
Chin Ti
Ah Quen
Tony
Tony Liu Tian-jue
Tony
Jimmy
Little Unicorn
Jimmy
Italian Beauty
Malisa Longo
Italian Beauty
Waiter
Wu Ngan
Waiter
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