Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey

Oct 22, 2000

1h 40m

★ 7.3

You know the legend. Now meet the man.

Overview

Documentary on the legendary martial artist Bruce Lee, with a focus on the production of his unfinished film Game of Death. Using interviews and behind-the-scenes footage, Lee aficionado John Little paints a portrait of the world's most famous action hero, concluding with a new cut of Game of Death's action finale, reconstructed from Lee's notes and recently-recovered footage.

Genres

Documentary

Action

Production Companies

Media Asia Films

Warner Bros. Pictures

Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey Trailers

Cast

Narrator (voice)

Doug Copsey

Self (archive footage)

Bruce Lee

Self

Linda Lee Cadwell

Self

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Self

Taky Kimura

Self

Ji Han-Jae

Self - Interviewer (archive footage)

Pierre Berton

Self (archive footage)

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Hai Tien ("The Story")

Kim Hak-kyu

Tien ("The Story")

Kim Byung-joo

Yuan ("The Story")

Park Sung-woo

Wong ("The Story")

Lee Kang-kook

Lau Leung-wah plays the titled character, a Chinese Robin Hood who robs the rich to help the poor. She is an early Republican Era Mulan, who switches effortlessly between charming gentility and agile ferocity, and Lau personifies her character's duality with a balance of grace and vigour. Chang Cheh, on the verge of fostering seismic changes in cinema with his martial-arts machismo, pens a script that captures the spirit of changing Chinese womanhood, underscored by a conflict between Black Butterfly and her father, a veteran detective.

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