| The Fighting Fist of Shanghai Joe | |
| Director: | Mario Caiano |
| Producer: | Renato Angiolini Roberto Bessi |
| Story: | Carlo Alberto Alfieri Mario Caiano Fabrizio Trifone Trecca |
| Screenplay: | Mario Caiano Fabrizio Trifone Trecca |
| Starring: | Chen Lee Carla Romanelli Gordon Mitchell Piero Lulli Katsutoshi Mikuriya Giacomo Rossi-Stuart 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 |
| Runtime: | 98 minutes |
| Country: | Italy |
| Language: | Italian |
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 Chen Lee as Shanghai Joe. The film was released in a number of alternate titles in the United States, including To Kill or to Die and The Dragon Strikes Back.[1]
A Chinese immigrant 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. "Shanghai Joe" 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.
On May 26, 2009, a Region 0 DVD of the movie was released by Alpha Video.[3]