Fist of Fury (1972) USA 4k Remaster RiffTrax triple audio 720p.10bit.BluRay.x265.HEVC-budgetbits

Fist of Fury (1972) USA 4k Remaster RiffTrax triple audio 720p.10bit.BluRay.x265.HEVC-budgetbits

also known as The Chinese Connection

RiffTrax commentary audio track will play with the movie by default. Change the track in your video software if you want to hear the normal movie track (dubbed English) or the official commentary track.

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GENERAL INFO

RiffTrax release date
April 10, 2014

Genre
Parody, Comedy, Action, Drama, Romance

Plot
Fist of Fury! The 1972 Bruce Lee classic! Not to be confused with Fists of Fury, or Jackie Chan’s New Fists of Fury, or Fist of Fury II starring Bruce Li (who himself is not to be confused with Bruce Lee). Oh and also, Fist of Fury is known by a couple other names, The Chinese Connection and The Iron Hand, don’t let that confuse you either! Here’s a good way to keep all these movies straight: this is the one where a guy named Bruce takes on a bunch of corrupt bad guys and kicks everyone’s butt real good. There, that clears it up, right?

It’s a good old-fashioned Hong Kong revenge story. Bruce’s martial arts teacher is killed by members of a rival martial arts school (spoiler: Bruce roars “TEACHERRRR!” at the thundering heavens quite a bit when he hears about this) and, wouldn’t you know it, decides to undertake a one-man mission of vengeance, pitting his Chinese school against their Japanese enemies. It’s kinda like the “slobs vs. snobs” setup of Caddyshack, except with a lot less gopher dancing and a lot more deep ethnic animosity. Fun!

So tense your whole body, make some strange bird sounds, punch a guy to death while you’re not even looking at him, and join Mike, Kevin and Bill for Fist of Fury!


Encoding info
Encoded by budgetbits from Blu-ray (Fist of Fury aka The Chinese Connection 1972 USA 4K Remaster Blu-ray 1080p AVC DTS-MA 5.1-Xorp) with HandBrake 1.3.1, slower preset, x265, 720p, 10 bit, crf 23, aq-mode 1, sao/strong-intra-smoothing/rect disabled.

Regular movie track and official commentary tracks encoded to mono, since the movie was orginally recorded in mono. This Blu-ray release includes 5.1 tracks with some artificial separation of noises, but it didn't seem worth downmixing that to stereo.

Subtitles are the actual spoken English, converted from PGS to SRT thanks to subtitletools.com. (Most subtitles files out there aren't of the actual English spoken in the dub. Perhaps they're translations of the original Mandarin spoken words.)

Riff originally synced by Riffling. The audio tracked needed minor editing to fit this video source.

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COVER


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SCREENSHOTS
(Click to enlarge)



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MEDIAINFO
General
Filename = Fist of Fury (1972) USA 4k Remaster RiffTrax triple audio 720p.10bit.BluRay.x265.HEVC-budgetbits.mkv
Duration = 1 h 46 min
Size = 822 MiB
Overall bit rate = 1 077 kb/s

Video #0
Format = HEVC x265 - 3.2.1+1-b5c86a64bbbe:[Linux][GCC 9.2.1][64 bit] 10bit
Resolution = 1280x548
Aspect ratio = 2.35:1 (2.345)
Bit rate = 909 kb/s
Frame rate = 23.976 FPS

Audio #0
Title = RiffTrax
Format = Opus
Channels = 2 channels
Bit rate = 67.4 kb/s
Sampling rate = 48.0 kHz
Language = English

Audio #1
Title = Unriffed feature, dubbed
Format = Opus
Channels = 1 channel
Bit rate = 45.9 kb/s
Sampling rate = 48.0 kHz
Language = English

Audio #2
Title = Commentary by Asian Film Expert Mike Leeder
Format = Opus
Channels = 1 channel
Bit rate = 45.5 kb/s
Sampling rate = 48.0 kHz
Language = English

Subtitles = UTF-8 English