''Enter Three Dragons'' is 1978 Hong Kong martial art

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movie, directed by Joseph Kong and starring

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(Chang Yi-tao), Nick Cheung Lik and

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. This also happens to be Dragon Lee`s Hong Kong film debut.

Plot

Sammy is having a trouble with the gangsters after he had lost the diamonds that his boss had ordered to bring. Sammy`s friend Dragon Hong (Chang Yi-tao) and Min Young (Nick Cheung) decides to help Sammy to defeat the gangster boss.

Cast

as Dragon Hong *Nick Cheung Lik as Min Young *Samuel Walls as Sammy *

as Kao Fei * Dragon Lee as Bruce Hong (Dragon Hong`s brother) *To Siu-ming as Ah Ming *Chiang Tao as Sammy`s boss *Fong Yau as Kao Fei`s younger brother *Lam Hak-ming as George (Sammy`s friend) *Yeung Chak-lam as Bruce Hong`s teacher *Chang Chung-yee as Dragon Young (Fake Dragon Hong) *Shirley Kam as Katy (Min Young`s sister) *San Kuai as Kao Fei`s man *

Bolo Yeung Yang Sze (; born 3 July 1946), better known as Bolo Yeung, is a Hong Kong former competitive bodybuilder, martial artist and a martial arts film actor. Globally known for his performances as Bolo in ''Enter the Dragon'' (starring Bruce Lee), an ...

as Bolo *

Lee Hoi-sang Lee Hoi-sang (born April 15, 1941) is a Hong Kong martial arts film actor and martial artist, known for his roles in '' The 36th Chamber of Shaolin'' (as Abbot Li Hai Sheng) (1978), '' Shaolin Challenges Ninja'' (1978), ''The Incredible Kung Fu ...

as Iron Head

Reception

According to website ''Cityonfire'' "Enter Three Dragons isn't as wacky as "Clones," but there's definitely enough unintentional entertainment that makes it just as fun." and gave the rate 6 out of 10. The movie however gave confusion to people due to the random additional fight scenes and cuts of the film. Screen Mayhem says, Enter Three Dragons might be considered the ugly step-sister of The Clones of Bruce Lee. Once again packed with too many dragons.

Production and media release

The movie was released in alternate name which gave some people a confusion with the titles. The Korean release of the movie was released the title after ''Three Avengers''. But the thing that makes even more confuse is the movie was released in U.S after the title called ''Dragon on Fire'' which also happens to be an alternate title of ''

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'' (featuring John Liu and Dragon Lee.) which made people confused with the movie titles between ''Enter Three Dragons'' and ''Dragon on Fire''. The U.S production was done Samuel Wall (who appeared as Sammy in the movie) however it was later credited as Joseph Lai and Tomas Tang.

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was co-director of this movie.

References

External links

* 1978 films Bruceploitation films Hong Kong martial arts films 1978 martial arts films 1970s Hong Kong films 1980s Hong Kong films {{martialart-film-stub