The Fighting Fist of Shanghai Joe

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The Fighting Fist of Shanghai Joe (Italian: Il mio nome è Shanghai Joe) is a 1973 Italian spaghetti Western kung fu film directed by Mario Caiano, starring Chen Lee as Shanghai Joe. In the United States it was released under titles such as To Kill or to Die and The Dragon Strikes Back.

Plot
A Chinese immigrant skilled in martial arts arrives in America and travels to Texas hoping to find honest work. He faces racism wherever he goes. He crosses paths with a slave trader named Spencer, who puts a price on his head. Shanghai Joe uses his martial arts to free Mexican slaves from their cruel master. In response, Spencer hires four notorious bounty hunters — a cannibal, a scalp hunter, a killer who skins his victims, and Joe’s old friend Mikuja — to capture him.

Cast
- Chen Lee (Myoshin Hayakawa) as Shanghai Joe
- Carla Romanelli as Cristina
- Gordon Mitchell as Buryin' Sam
- Klaus Kinski as Scalper Jack
- Katsutoshi Mikuriya as Mikuja
- Robert Hundar as Pedro, the Cannibal
- Giacomo Rossi-Stuart as Triky, the gamber
- Piero Lulli as Spencer
- Carla Mancini as Conchita
- George Wang as Yang
- Rick Boyd as Slim
- Umberto D’Orsi as Poker Player
- Dante Maggio as Doctor
- Francisco Sanz as Cristina's Father

DVD release
A Region 0 DVD of the movie was released on May 26, 2009 by Alpha Video.

References
- New York Times overview by Robert Firsching
- The Fighting Fists of Shanghai Joe Review (Scherpschutter) on Spaghetti-Western.net
- Oldies.com listing for the Euro-Western double feature DVD

External links
- The Fighting Fist of Shanghai Joe on IMDb