Enter The Dragon Theme
燃えよドラゴンのテーマ
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moeyod (Moeyo Dragon - JP movie title)Taiko no Tatsujin Pop Tap Beat sure is home to some of the most out-there properties to garner worldwide fame in some form or fashion, almost as if the Western-friendly Taiko Drum Master branch never died off with the eponymous PS2 release. The latest update, in particular, brought up two interesting specimen from such radically-different grounds that to do them both the same day here would be an injustice to either part... but don't you worry- the other one's time is coming the same!
Known in Japan as Moeyo Dragon, Enter The Dragon is arguably one of the most influencial kung-fu action flicks ever made, inspiring many a party in the succeeding years from household fighting game franchises (Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter, among others) and even mangakas in the likes of Akira Toriyama, with his magnum Opus Dragon Ball taking huge inspiration from this America-Hong Koing joint venue from the early 70ies. In the movie, martial artist Lee gets tasked to attend a martial arts tournament in order to shed light on the whereabouts of its host Han, a prostetic-hand-donning crime lord who's allegedly involved into a deep network of drug trafficking and prostitution.
A joint production of the HK-British-rooted Concord Pictures and Warner Bros, the movie had a trio of late and late stars to its beck and call: John Saxon, martial artist Jim Kelly and -of course- Lee Jun-fan, known worldwide as Bruce Lee, the acting and creative force behind his own movies' action scenes. Unfortunately, Enter The Dragon happened to become Bruce Lee's final complete movie release on his lifetime, as it was released roughly a week (in Hong Kong) and a month (in America) after his death, on July 20th in 1973. The movie's entire score was penned by Argentinian musician Lalo Schifrin, ultimately netting a gold record acknowlegement for its sales surpassing the 500.000 copies.
Among the Enter The Dragon silverscreen influences across the years and the globe is also the ...rather dubious one of being often credited as the father of several "*-sploitation" genre branches where a movie's identity lies on the overt reliance on certain tropes and characters... even not with just the movie alone. EDD already was credited as the far father of "blaxploitation", but Bruce Lee himself was a posthumous victim of a bona-fide "Lee-sploitation" due to many different companies trying to capitalize on the deceased actor's fame by making "new Bruce Lee movies" out of scenes collages from many other of the actor's flicks, between unreleased footage or actually-released movies, while redubbing the whole final product. I could go on in greater lengths on how this strated an off-shoot branch of parody movies with martial-arts action footage on top, but I have to stop- the rules of some place in the Internet state that one shall stream online a particular movie of this kind from the early '00s at its mere mention and/or quoting, and my Internet connection as of late isn't exactly up to snuff...
The Enter The Dragon theme is an interesting take on licensed, percussion-based songs to Taiko-chart for, considering the initial Don note dash and latter-half handswitching at play pursued in order to adehere to BGM charting. Still, no matter the difficulty you're playing this one on, there are a couple of really scary-looking fast drumrolls to match a couple of battle shouts, so don't let the sudden yellow sprint distract you from whatever pattern follows!
