Muscle of the Dragon a.k.a. Dragon Lee Fights Back is not the same movie as Dragon Bruce Lee, Part II a.k.a. Dragon Lee Fights Again. The have similar casts, and the alternate titles are very similar, but one is about Dragon Lee battling a moon cult in contemporary Korea and the other is about Dragon Lee joining Chinese partisans during WWII. I was looking to clean up these pages to clear up the confusion.

One of the entries was deleted years ago, so a new entry would have to be created. But only if these are really different movies, IMDB has only one entry for them and there isn't much info about these elsewhere.

Do you have proof that these are 2 different movies? There is generally a lot of misinformation circulating about Eastern from this period, so it is also possible that IMDB has it wrong.

EDIT: or are you talking about this one? - https://www.imdb.com/de/title/tt0165119/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_25

I have seen both and they are different movies. As for sources I have Stewart Home's Re-Enter the Dragon ( ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0994411273 ) which has separate entries for both movies and is probably the best English language source for this Bruceploitation stuff. hkmdb also has seperate entries for the two films. Dragon Bruce Lee, Part II https://hkmdb.com/db/movies/view.mhtml?id=9751&display_set=eng and Dragon Lee Fights Again https://hkmdb.com/db/movies/view.mhtml?id=12097&display_set=eng which I think provides enough proof that this was not a Duplicate entry. It sounds like I'll need to make a new entry for Muscle of the Dragon, but will wait until someone says that it's ok before I do.

Thanks, I think you're right. You can create a new entry.

I'm confused @amerrit , in the first answer you say Dragon Bruce Lee, Part II a.k.a. Dragon Lee Fights Again, and in the second you already say that they are different movies. it's true that the Korean database indicates that they are two movies, but all the other sites, indicate as only one movie, it's all very confusing.

1. https://www.comicbookandmoviereviews.com/2013/08/big-boss-ii-dragon-lee-fights-again.html
2. https://www.dvdcompare.net/comparisons/film.php?fid=34826
3. https://mydramalist.com/67251-dragon-lee-fights-again
4. https://thetvdb.com/movies/dragon-bruce-lee-part-ii

These 4 links indicate that they are the same and one of them even has the cover saying “Big Boss II AKA Dragon Lee Fights Again”.

@amerrit said:

I have seen both and they are different movies. As for sources I have Stewart Home's Re-Enter the Dragon ( ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0994411273 ) which has separate entries for both movies and is probably the best English language source for this Bruceploitation stuff.

Could you maybe provide scans or photos of these pages from the book? I believe you that these are two different movies, but without proper sources it's all very confusing.

Yeah the naming and data on these two are incredibly confusing just about everywhere, the Stewart Home book has the alternate titles swapped maybe? Here are the relevant entries in the Stewart Home book: https://imgur.com/a/dragon-lee-confusion-8nw5a4J

I think he even has some mis-info on Big Boss II though since he has the date as 1978 (the same year as the other movie Big Boss Part 2.) but the Hong Kong and Korean movie databases have it as 1981.

I'm inclined to take the Korean database as the best source of truth on release dates here and then use the Hong Kong movie database for the English titles, avoiding the confusing Dragon Lee Fights Again and using Muscle of the Dragon to make it more clear which is which.

https://www.kmdb.or.kr/eng/db/kor/detail/movie/K/03540/credit# (Dragon Bruce Lee, Part II) https://www.kmdb.or.kr/eng/db/kor/detail/movie/K/03539/credit# (Muscle of the Dragon)

It would be nice to have the untangled in English language databases.

I just realized we already have both movies in the database: https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/313310 and https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/350109-81 (or am I wrong here? This is all completely confusing if one doesn't understand Korean, sry...)

So maybe you could update this other entry.

The Korean entry is actually just the Korean title for Dragon Bruce Lee, Part II. I think there's more than enough to go on and I'll get started on clean separate entries for this tonight.

Okay but this title (정무문 '81) is also the original title of Muscle of the Dragon? See here: https://www.kmdb.or.kr/eng/db/kor/detail/movie/K/03539/credit#

I'm not seeing 정무문 '81 on that page at all. The original Korean title for Muscle of the Dragon is 월광쌍수

My mistake, sorry. You can create the new entry, I deleted the Korean dupe.