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Way of the Dragon (The) AKA Meng long guo jiang AKA Return of the Dragon (Blu-ray) (1972)
A man visits his relatives at their restaurant in Italy and has to help them defend against brutal gangsters harassing them.Director: Bruce Lee
OVERALL: Draw-
OVERALL: Draw
- The UK Arrow "Bruce Lee at Golden Harvest" set features 2 cuts of the film, uncompressed audio, and the best set of extras.
- The 11-disc US/Canada Shout! Factory release also has a great set extras.
- The Japanese Ultimate Edition has both the original version and longer Japanese version of the film.
- The US Criterion release features uncompressed versions of the original mono tracks in Mandarin and English, with some exclusive extras.
- The UK Mediumrare release includes the Shout! Factory commentary by Mike Leeder along with the Hong Kong Legends Platinum Edition DVD extras.
- The Australian Umbrella Entertainment release has an exclusive documentary, though it is not directly related to "The Way of the Dragon".
For audio, the Hong Kong and Japanese releases have the Cantonese audio in lossless 7.1. Note the Hong Kong 4K restoration edition has a newer transfer.
This film is also known as:
- Revenge of the Dragon
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CUTS:
- Blu-ray A Bruce Lee: His Greatest Hits America- Criterion Collection - No cuts (99:38).
- Blu-ray A Bruce Lee: The Legacy Collection America- Shout! Factory - No cuts (98:12).
- Blu-ray A Collector's Edition America- Shout! Factory - No cuts (99:12).
- Blu-ray A The Bruce Lee Premiere Collection America- Shout! Factory - No cuts (98:12).
- Blu-ray A Bruce Lee: His Greatest Hits Canada- Criterion Collection - No cuts (99:38).
- Blu-ray A Bruce Lee: The Legacy Collection Canada- Shout! Factory - No cuts (98:12).
- Blu-ray A Collector's Edition Canada- Shout! Factory - No cuts (99:12).
- Blu-ray A The Bruce Lee Premiere Collection Canada- Shout! Factory - No cuts (98:12)
- Blu-ray A Hong Kong- Kam & Ronson Enterprises - No cuts (98:40).
- Blu-ray A 4K Restoration Hong Kong- Kam & Ronson Enterprises - No cuts (99:14).
- Blu-ray A Extreme Edition Japan- Paramount Home Entertainment - No cuts (98:40).
- Blu-ray A Ultimate Edition Japan- Universal Pictures - No cuts. Includes the Japanese Theatrical Version (100:11) and the International Version (98:40)
- Blu-ray ALL Films of Fury #3 Australia- Umbrella Entertainment - No cuts (99:12).
- Blu-ray B Australia- Beyond Home Entertainment - No cuts (98:12).
- Blu-ray B France- Metropolitan Film - No cuts (99:24).
- Blu-ray B 4K + Blu-ray France- Metropolitan Film - No cuts (99:29).
- Blu-ray B Bruce Lee Collection Scandinavia- Universal Pictures - No cuts (99:11).
- Blu-ray B United Kingdom- Arrow Films - No cuts. Includes the Hong Kong Cut with options to watch it with the Chinese credits (99:25) or the English ending Credits (99:47) and the Japanese Cut (100:17).
- Blu-ray B United Kingdom- Mediumrare - No cuts (99:12).
- Blu-ray B Bruce Lee at Golden Harvest (Limited Edition) United Kingdom- Arrow Films - No cuts. Includes the Hong Kong Cut with options to watch it with the Chinese credits (99:25) or the English ending Credits (99:47) and the Japanese Cut (100:17).
- Blu-ray B Bruce Lee: The Master Collection (4K reissue) United Kingdom- Mediumrare - No cuts (99:12).
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Comparison added by Oliver_Wicks on 29/01/11
Comparison last updated by James-Masaki_Ryan on 14/11/23UPDATE LOG:
29/01/11: Initial entry.
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16/04/11: Fixed typo in title.
10/10/13: Added US release.
01/12/14: Added 4 disc US release, reformatted 11 disc US release, fixed typo in the title.
14/02/16: Addition of Japan.
07/04/16: Addition of Australia.
16/02/17: Added the single disc version found in the Bruce Lee: The Master Collection which features a new 2016 4K transfer.
24/05/17: Added US CE.
07/11/18: Added Scandinavia.
09/12/19: Added Japan Ultimate.
21/06/20: Addition of the Criterion release.
22/06/20: Addition of the DVDBeaver link, capsaholic, France x2.
14/11/20: Added Hong Kong 4K.
16/07/21: Title update.
26/05/22: Added Australia Umbrella.
29/07/23: Addition of the Canadian and UK Arrow releases and updated Caps-A-Holic link.
14/11/23: Added UK single.
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