In Popular Culture
Agents of the Black Dragon Society appeared in the 1938 French film The Shanghai Drama directed by the celebrated Georg Wilhelm Pabst.
Black Dragons appeared as villains in two Sam Katzman 1942 Monogram Pictures releases Black Dragons and Let's Get Tough! as well as a Republic Pictures film serial G-Men vs the Black Dragon that was turned into a Century 66 made for TV movie The Black Dragon of Manzanar. The Black Dragons also appeared as villains in 1942 American comic books published by DC Comics.
In Max Brooks' book The Zombie Survival Guide, the Black Dragons are portrayed as a unit of World War II Japanese military. He asserts that this group was responsible for attempting to create a zombie army by breeding and training the undead in an operation known as Project Cherry Blossom.
They also appear as henchmen to the villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld in the James Bond novel You Only Live Twice.
The Black Dragon Society appears in the Thomas Pynchon novel Against the Day.
In the fictional Battletech universe the Black Dragon Society comes out as a Draconis Combine extremist group.
The Black Dragon Society appeared in the movie Bloodsport, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme as the hosts of the illegal tournament in which Frank Dux fought.
The Black Dragon appeared as the antagonists in the 1995 televised version of Fist of Fury.
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