History Trivia / WayOfTheDragon

* FakeNationality: Hwang In-shik, who played the Japanese Karate fighter, was really a Korean Hapkido master. Lee [[WhatCouldHaveBeen originally intended]] the role for Japanese action star [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasuaki_Kurata Yasuaki Kurata]], but he was busy on another project, so Lee cast Hwang, whom he was training with at the time.

* FakeNationality: Hwang In-shik, who played the Japanese Karate fighter, was really a Korean Hapkido master.

* DirectedByCastMember / WrittenByCastMember: Bruce Lee not only starred in the film, but he also directed, produced, and wrote it.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** Bruce Lee originally wanted karateka and kickboxer [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Lewis_(martial_artist) Joe Lewis]] to appear as Colt in the final fight, but the two had a falling out before filming, and the role ultimately went to Chuck Norris.
** The role of the Japanese karateka was originally intended for a young Yasuaki Kurata, but he was under contract to another studio at the time.
* WorkingTitle: ''Film/EnterTheDragon''. However, once Bruce had gotten wind that Hollywood had become interested in making a martial arts film with Bruce in the lead role based on the success of his two earlier films made in Hong Kong, Bruce decided to reserve the name and title 'Enter' for his first Hollywood breakout film, changing the name of this film to ''Way of the Dragon''.

* WorkingTitle: ''Film/EnterTheDragon''. However, once Bruce had gotten wind, that Hollywood had become interested in making a martial arts film with Bruce as the lead role based on the success of his two earlier films made in Hong Kong, Bruce decided to reserve the name and title 'Enter' for his first Hollywood breakout film and changed the name of this film to ''Way of the Dragon''.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Bruce Lee originally wanted karate kickboxer [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Lewis_(martial_artist) Joe Lewis]] to appear as Colt in the final fight, but the two had a falling out before filming, and the role ultimately went to Chuck Norris.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Bruce Lee originally wanted karate kickboxer [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Lewis_(martial_artist) Joe Lewis]] to appear in as Colt in the final fight, but the two had a falling out before filming, and the role ultimately went to Chuck Norris.

* DirectedByCastMember \ WrittenByCastMember: Bruce Lee not only starred in the film, but he also directed, produced, and wrote it.

* DirectedByCastMember

* FakeNationality: Ing-Sik Whang who played the Japanese Fighter, was really a Korean martial artist.

* WorkingTitle: ''Film/EnterTheDragon''. However, once Bruce had gotten wind, that Hollywood had become interested in making a martial arts film with Bruce as the lead role based on the success of his two earlier films made in Hong Kong, Bruce decided to reserve the name and title 'Enter' for his first Hollywood breakout film and changed the name of this film to ''Way of the Dragon''.
* WrittenByCastmember:

* WorkingTitle: ''Film/EnterTheDragon''. However, once Bruce had gotten wind, that Hollywood had become interested in making a martial arts film with Bruce as the lead role based on the success of his two earlier films made in Hong Kong, Bruce decided to reserve the name and title 'Enter' for his first Hollywood breakout film and changed the name of this film to 'Way of the Dragon'.

* PlayingAgainstType: Between his fish-out-of-waterness and his very weak bowels, Tang Lung was certainly a more comedic character than Creator/BruceLee's usual stoic badasses.

* RecycledSoundtrack: Part of the soundtrack is taken from Music/EnnioMorricone's score for ''Film/OnceUponATimeInTheWest'', particularly during the Colosseum scenes.
** Additionally, a snipped of Music/JohnBarry's score for ''Film/DiamondsAreForever'' was used in the scene where [[spoiler:Uncle Wang, showing his true colors, wickedly stabs Tony and Jimmy in their backs with a knife]].

* CompletelyDifferentTitle: In America, the film was released as ''Return of the Dragon'' and was sold as a sequel to ''Film/EnterTheDragon''.

* LoopedLines: Creator/BruceLee dubbed almost all of the English speaking characters in this film including one line for the boss. That line is: "Take him out, but be careful with that gun in public".

* RecycledSoundtrack: Part of the soundtrack is taken from Music/EnninioMorricone's score for ''Film/OnceUponATimeInTheWest'', particularly during the Colosseum scenes.

* CompletelyDifferentTitle: In America, the film was released as ''Return of the Dragon'' and was sold as a sequel to ''Film/EnterTheDragon''.

** Additionally, a snipped of Music/JohnBarry's score for ''Film/DiamondsAreForever'' was used in the scene where [[spoiler@Uncle Wang, showing his true colors, wickedly stabs Tony and Jimmy in their backs with a knife]].

* CompletelyDifferentTitle: In America, the film was released as ''Return of the Dragon'' and was sold as a sequel to ''Film/EnterTheDragon''.

* Playing Against Type: Between his fish-out-of-waterness and his very weak bowels, Tong Lung was certainly a more comedic character than Lee's usual stoic badasses.
This is also one of the few times Chuck Norris plays a villain.
* RecycledSoundtrack: Part of the soundtrack is taken from Music/EnninoMorricone's score for ''Film/OnceUponATimeInTheWest'', particularly during the Colosseum scenes.