Fist of Fury is a 1972 Hong Kong martial arts film directed by Lo Wei and produced by Raymond Chow for Golden Harvest. The film stars Bruce Lee in his second major role after The Big Boss (1971), along with Nora Miao and Chikara Hashimoto. Lee also worked as the film's action choreographer. He portrays the character Chen Zhen, a student of Huo Yuanjia, fights to defend the honor of the Chinese in the face of foreign aggression and also exact vengeance responsible for Huo's death.

Plot

In 1908 Shanghai, Chen Zhen returns to Jingwu School to marry his fiancée Yuan Li'er, but learns that his master Huo Yuanjia has died, apparently from illness, which devastates him. During the funeral, members of a Japanese dojo in Hongkou District arrive to taunt the Jingwu students. Wu En, translator and advisor for the Japanese dojo's grandmaster Hiroshi Suzuki, taunts Chen by slapping him on the cheek several times and dares him to fight one of Suzuki's protégés.