The Fighting Fist of Shanghai Joe (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 as Shanghai Joe. It was released under alternate titles in the United States, including To Kill or to Die and The Dragon Strikes Back.
Plot A Chinese immigrant named Chin Hao who skilled in martial arts arrives in 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. Earning a nickname "Shanghai Joe", Chin Hao uses his martial arts expertise to free the Mexican slaves from their cruel master. Spencer and his friends then hire the four most terrifying bounty hunters of the West, among them a cannibal, a scalp hunter, a killer who skins his victims, and another martial arts champion, his old friend Mikuja.
Cast (Myoshin Hayakawa) - Chin Hao/Shanghai Joe Carla Romanelli - Cristina Gordon Mitchell - Buryin' Sam Klaus Kinski - Scalper Jack Katsutoshi Mikuriya - Mikuja Robert Hundar - Pedro, the Cannibal Giacomo Rossi-Stuart - Triky, the gamber Piero Lulli - Spencer Carla Mancini - Conchita George Wang - Yang Rick Boyd - Slim Umberto D'Orsi - Poker player Dante Maggio - Doctor Francisco Sanz - Cristina's Father
DVD release On May 26, 2009, a Region 0 DVD of the movie was released by Alpha Video.Euro-Western Double Feature: The Fighting Fists of Shanghai Joe (1972) / Any Gun Can Play (1967) DVD info, Oldies.com
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