Synopsis
New Fist of Fury (1976) is a Hong Kong martial-arts actioner you can watch online on iFILM, picking up the story right where Bruce Lee's Fist of Fury left off. Director Lo Wei hands the lead to a young Jackie Chan years before he became a comedy icon — here he's groomed as the next Lee, all grim stares and hard strikes.
A brother and sister flee Japanese-occupied Shanghai for Taiwan, taking shelter with their grandfather and his kung-fu school. The island offers no peace: a Japanese master is muscling every Chinese school under his control, and his scheme runs straight through the old man's death. What starts as survival turns into a fight neither sibling asked for, with Nora Miao at the center.
The real draw is the time capsule. This is Chan boxed into someone else's template, before he tore it up with his own slapstick style — so the film plays as both a straight revenge picture and a glimpse of a star still being shaped. Stream New Fist of Fury (1976) online on iFILM.
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