Sax Rohmer's legendary criminal mastermind Dr. Fu Manchu also employed Burmese dacoits as his henchmen.

Critics have referred to Enter the Dragon as " a low-rent James Bond thriller ", a " remake of Doctor No " with elements of Fu Manchu.

Film poster by Mitchell Hooks for 1965 film The Face of Fu Manchu

Dr. Fu Manchu is a fictional character introduced in a series of novels by British author Sax Rohmer during the first half of the 20th century.

The character was also featured extensively in cinema, television, radio, comic strips and comic books for over 90 years, and has become an archetype of the evil criminal genius while lending the name to the Fu Manchu moustache.

In the 1933 novel, The Bride of Fu Manchu, Fu Manchu claims to hold doctorates from four Western universities.

In the 1959 novel, Emperor Fu Manchu, he reveals he attended Heidelberg, the Sorbonne, and Edinburgh.

In the early books, Dr. Petrie, believed that Fu Manchu was around 70 years old in 1911 at the time of their first encounter.

This would have placed Fu Manchu in the West studying for his first doctorate in the 1870s.

According to Cay Van Ash, Rohmer's biographer and former assistant who became the first author to continue the series after Rohmer's death, " Fu Manchu " was a title of honour, which meant " the Warlike Manchu.

" Van Ash speculates that Fu Manchu had been a member of the Imperial family who backed the losing side in the Boxer Rebellion.

In the earliest books, Fu Manchu is an agent of the secret society, the Si-Fan and acts as the mastermind behind a wave of assassinations targeting Western imperialists.

Dr. Fu Manchu has extended his already considerable lifespan by use of the elixir vitae, a formula he spent decades trying to perfect.

Opposing Fu Manchu in the early stories are Denis Nayland Smith and Dr. Petrie.

They are in the Holmes and Watson tradition, with Dr. Petrie narrating the stories while Nayland Smith carries the fight, combating Fu Manchu more by dogged determination than intellectual brilliance ( except in extremis ).

Nayland Smith and Fu Manchu share a grudging respect for one another, as each believes a man must keep his word even to an enemy.

Heggie ( 52-53 ) in The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu ( 1929 ) and The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu ( 1930 )

* Lewis Stone ( 53 ) in The Mask of Fu Manchu ( 1932 )

At least one fictional moustache has been so notable that a whole style has been named after it: the Fu Manchu moustache.

* The fictional character Kwai Chang Caine used elements of Snake Kung Fu in the television series Kung Fu

The tales in the Pontine canon ( as the collected works are known ) can be broadly divided into two classes, the straight and the humorous, the straight being more or less straightforward tales of detection in the classic Holmesian mode, while the others — a minority — have some gentle fun, most notably by involving fictional characters from outside either canon ( most notably Dr. Fu Manchu, who recurs ); perhaps the most outstanding example is " The Adventure of the Orient Express ", in which we encounter, among others, very thinly disguised versions of Ashenden, Hercule Poirot, and The Saint.

The Fu Manchu moustache, as worn by the eponymous fictional character.

The Fu Manchu moustache derives its name from Fu Manchu, the fictional character who wears such a moustache in film versions of the stories written by the British / Irish author Sax Rohmer.

Most often he teaches either generic Kung Fu, or an exotic style specific to the movie ( see List of fictional martial arts ).

Zhu Fu is a fictional character in the Water Margin, one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature.

Han Fu ( died 200 ) is a fictional character in Luo Guanzhong's historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

Cai Fu is a fictional character in the Water Margin, one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature.

She made a comedic appearance in the film Four Fingers of the Dragon ( 2003 ) playing herself auditioning for a role in a fictional Kung Fu film.

Laurette Luez played Karamaneh in 1956's The Adventures of Dr. Fu Manchu, but the character owed more to Fah lo Suee than Rohmer's depiction of Karamaneh.

Following the 1940 release of Republic Pictures ' serial adaptation of Drums of Fu Manchu, the U. S. State Department requested the studio make no further films with the character as China was an ally against Japan.

The character of Fu Manchu became a stereotype often associated with the Yellow Peril.

Shang-Chi () is a Marvel Comics character, often called the " Master of Kung Fu ".

The character was conceived in late 1972 when Marvel Comics acquired the comic book rights to Sax Rohmer's pulp novel villain Dr. Fu Manchu while they also held the rights to the Kung Fu television program.

Though an original character himself, many of Shang-Chi's supporting characters ( most notably Fu Manchu and Sir Denis Nayland Smith ) were Rohmer creations.

No characters from the Kung Fu television series carried over into the comic series, though the character Lu Sung, in an early issue, bears a strong resemblance to Kwai Chang Caine with the addition of a moustache.

* Fah Lo Suee is the daughter of Fu Manchu and is the final character from the novels to appear in the comic.

Fleming's inspiration for the Dr. No character was Sax Rohmer's villain Dr Fu Manchu, the books about who Fleming had read and enjoyed in earlier years.

* The character Kwai Chang Caine in the television series Kung Fu, is modeled after the character Cain.

The Fu Manchu character is believed to have been patterned on the antagonist of the 1898 Yellow Peril series by British writer M. P. Shiel.

After working on Captain Marvel, Starlin and writer Steve Englehart co-created the character Shang-Chi, Master of Kung Fu, though they only worked on the early issues of the series.

* Bou Keng Wan (" Cloud "), a Kung Fu character from the Hong Kong comic, Fung Wan

A prominent example occurs within the first volume of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, wherein a character who is clearly intended in appearance and description by other characters to be Dr. Fu Manchu appears as a significant villain ; however, as this character was not in the public domain at the time of writing and the rights still held by the estate of his creator Sax Rohmer, he is not directly named as such in the work and is only referred to as ' the Devil Doctor '.

In his complex schemes for world-domination, he is also reminiscent of Sax Rohmer's character, Fu Manchu.

Ming is portrayed as a military dictator in this serial, rather than as a Fu Manchu or Devil-like character as in the two previous Flash Gordon serials.

* Oolong, a main character from Yie-Ar Kung Fu.

Although the character was designed deliberately to mimic pulp magazine-style villains such as Dr. Fu Manchu and Fantômas, the latter of which was a direct inspiration, Jacques ' goal was both commercial success and to make political comments, in much the same way that the silent movie The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari ( 1920 ) had done just a few years previously.