Release dates : December 30, 1972
Tang Lung is sent from Hong Kong to Rome to help his friend's niece Chen Ching Hua, and some family friends, whose restaurant is being targeted by the local Mafia, which has been trying to force them to sign a contract handing over ownership of the restaurant to the Mafia boss. After their offers to purchase the restaurant are repeatedly turned down, the gangsters resort to intimidation. Tang fends off the local gangsters and wins Chen's admiration, who had initially looked down on him for his naïvety. Tang had earlier been reluctant in putting all his savings into a bank and had even unknowingly gone home with a prostitute while touring Rome with Chen; he had further frustrated her by not being able to understand the Italian and English languages.
The Mafia boss sends a gunman to kill Tang, but Tang defeats him by throwing wooden darts and fracturing his neck. The angry boss then takes a personal trip to the restaurant with his thugs to force Chen to sign the contract. Although they are armed with guns, Tang manages to defeat them after the boss forbids them to use the guns. Tang uses a Bo Staff and a pair of Nunchakus during the fight. He warns the boss that he will take firm action against him if he continues to harass his friends. The boss later responds by warning Chen he will have Tang killed if he stays in Rome, but Tang refuses to leave even after being told of the mafia's intentions by Chen and Uncle Wang. The boss then sends a sniper (the gunman who now wears a neck brace) to kill Tang at Chen's apartment but he fails again. Chen is kidnapped by the boss and compelled to sign the contract at his headquarters, but Tang and his friends appear and rescue her once more.
The Mafia boss hires foreign martial artists, two of whom have trouble communicating with each other, to challenge Tang Lung. Tang defeats two of them with help from his friends in the countryside near the Colosseum. However when two of his friends (the only fighters on both sides still conscious) sit down for a rest Uncle Wang kills them both, revealing that he would receive a large sum of money if he persuaded Miss Chen to sell the restaurant. Meanwhile Tang has an iconic final showdown inside the Colosseum with the Karate fighter Colt, the best of the hired fighters, and the only one able to fully communicate with him despite the language barrier. Colt is winning at first, But Tang eventually gets the upper hand since he's faster and more fluid and Colt is too slow, stiff and rigid. Tang wins the fight and, because it is a battle to the death (and after he's reminded of this), he reluctantly kills Colt, but he covers the body with Colt's white Gi to show his respect and admiration after the fight. As he's still overwhelmed with guilt he hears the mafia boss's assistant, Tang angrily chases him down to the countryside only to find everyone there (other then himself, Wang and the assistant) has been killed (Wang stabbing the others as they lay unconscious). There the assistant tries to stall Tang whilst Wang is going to stab and kill him. The mafia boss arrives and shoots his assistant and Wang, but he fails to shoot Tang as he takes cover behind the tree. The police arrive with Chen and the mafia boss is arrested. The final scene takes place in the graveyard, where Tang and Chen pay respects to the fallen. Tang bids farewell to Chen and leaves Rome alone as the credits begin to roll.
Reference : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Way_of_the_Dragon#Production
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