Doco: Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey

Legendary martial artist Bruce Lee is the subject of this thoughtful documentary by Lee aficionado John Little. Using interviews, behind-the-scenes footage and action sequences from Lee's last (unfinished) film, Game of Death, Little paints a textured, complex portrait of the world's most famous action hero.

Bruce Lee was a Hong Kong American martial artist, Hong Kong action movie star, martial arts coach, thinker, filmmaker, and also the owner of Jeet Kune Do. Lee was the child of Cantonese opera star Lee Hoi-Chuen. He is extensively taken into consideration by analysts, critics, media as well as other game martial musicians to be among the most prominent martial artists of perpetuity, and also a pop culture icon of the 20th century. He is commonly credited with assisting to alter the means Asians existed in American films.

Lee was born in Chinatown, San Francisco on Nov 27, 1940 to moms and dads from Hong Kong and was increased in Kowloon with his family members till his late adolescents. He was presented to the movie market by his daddy and also showed up in a number of movies as a kid actor. Lee moved to the Usa at the age of 18 to receive his college, at the College of Washington, at Seattle [8] and it was during this moment that he started educating fighting styles. His Hong Kong and also Hollywood-produced films elevated the traditional Hong Kong martial arts film to a brand-new degree of popularity as well as honor, triggering a rise of interest in Chinese fighting styles in the West in the 1970s. The instructions and also tone of his films altered and influenced martial arts as well as martial arts movies in the Usa, Hong Kong et cetera of the globe.

He is noted for his functions in five feature-length films: Lo Wei's The Large Manager (1971) and Hand of Fury (1972); Golden Produce's Means of the Dragon (1972), routed and written by Lee; Golden Produce and Warner Brothers' Enter the Dragon (1973) and also The Video game of Fatality (1978), both directed by Robert Clouse. Lee ended up being a well-known number understood throughout the world, specifically among the Chinese, as he represented Chinese nationalism in his movies. He trained in the art of Wing Chun and later on integrated his other game influences from numerous resources, in the spirit of his personal fighting styles ideology, which he dubbed Jeet Kune Do (The Way of the Obstructing Clenched fist). Lee held dual citizenship of Hong Kong as well as the United States. He died in Kowloon Tong on July 20, 1973 at the age of 32.