The Fighting Fist of Shanghai Joe

{{short description|1973 film}} {{Infobox film | name = The Fighting Fist of Shanghai Joe | image = Mio_nome_Shanghai_Joe_(poster).jpg | director = [[Mario Caiano]] | producer = [[Renato Angiolini]] Roberto Bessi | story = Carlo Alberto Alfieri Mario Caiano Fabrizio Trifone Trecca {{small|(as T.F. Karter)}} | screenplay = Mario Caiano Fabrizio Trifone Trecca | starring = Chen Lee Carla Romanelli [[Gordon Mitchell]] [[Piero Lulli]] Katsutoshi Mikuriya [[Giacomo Rossi-Stuart]] [[Claudio Undari|Robert Hundar]] [[Klaus Kinski]] | music = [[Bruno Nicolai]] | cinematography = [[Guglielmo Mancori]] | editing = Amedeo Giomini | studio = C.B.A. Produttori e Distributori Associati Compagnia Cinematografica Champion | distributor = Jumbo Cinematografica | released = {{Film date|1973|12|28|df=yes}} | runtime = 98 minutes | country = Italy | language = Italian }}

'''''The Fighting Fist of Shanghai Joe''''' ([[Italian language|Italian]]: ''Il mio nome è Shanghai Joe'', lit. "My name is Shanghai Joe") is a 1973 [[spaghetti Western]] [[kung fu film]] directed by [[Mario Caiano]] and starring Chen Lee as Shanghai Joe. It was released under alternate titles in the [[United States]], including ''To Kill or to Die'' and ''The Dragon Strikes Back''.<ref name="NY Times">{{cite web |url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/113965/Il-Mio-nome-e-Shanghai-Joe/overview |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110521005317/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/113965/Il-Mio-nome-e-Shanghai-Joe/overview |url-status=dead |archive-date=2011-05-21 |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=[[The New York Times]] |author=Robert Firsching |date=2011 |title=New York Times: My Name Is Shanghai Joe |accessdate=2008-10-25}}</ref>

==Plot== A [[Chinese people|Chinese]] immigrant skilled in martial arts arrives in [[United States|America]] and travels to [[Texas]] looking for honest work. Wherever he goes he encounters [[racism]]. He soon impinges on the interests of a slave trader called Spencer, which results in a price being put on his head. "Shanghai Joe" uses his [[martial arts]] expertise to free the [[Mexican people|Mexican]] [[slave]]s from their cruel master. Spencer and his friends then hire the four most terrifying bounty hunters of the West, among them a [[Human cannibalism|cannibal]], a scalp hunter, a killer who skins his victims, and another martial arts champion, his old friend Mikuja.

==Cast== * Chen Lee (Myoshin Hayakawa)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.spaghetti-western.net/index.php/The_Fighting_Fists_of_Shanghai_Joe_Review_(Scherpschutter)|title=The Fighting Fists of Shanghai Joe Review (Scherpschutter) - the Spaghetti Western Database}}</ref> - Shanghai Joe * [[Carla Romanelli]] - Cristina * [[Gordon Mitchell]] - Buryin' Sam * [[Klaus Kinski]] - Scalper Jack * Katsutoshi Mikuriya - Mikuja * [[Claudio Undari|Robert Hundar]] - Pedro, the Cannibal * [[Giacomo Rossi-Stuart]] - Triky, the gamber * [[Piero Lulli]] - Spencer * [[Carla Mancini]] - Conchita * [[George Wang (actor)|George Wang]] - Yang * [[Federico Boido|Rick Boyd]] - Slim * [[Umberto D'Orsi]] - Poker player * [[Dante Maggio]] - Doctor * [[Francisco Sanz (actor)|Francisco Sanz]] - Cristina's Father

==DVD release== On May 26, 2009, a [[Region 0]] [[DVD]] of the movie was released by [[Alpha Video]].<ref>[http://www.oldies.com/product-view/5828D.html ''Euro-Western Double Feature: The Fighting Fists of Shanghai Joe (1972) / Any Gun Can Play (1967)'' DVD info, Oldies.com]</ref>

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==External links== *{{IMDb title|id=0068954|title=The Fighting Fist of Shanghai Joe}}

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