Bruce Lee: A Warriors Journey
8.2 /10 1 Votes
Director Bruce Lee, John Little Initial DVD release March 5, 2002 Duration Language English
Cantonese | 8.2/10 IMDb Genre Documentary, Action, Biography Screenplay Bruce Lee Country United States
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Release date October 22, 2000 (2000-10-22) Writer Bruce Lee (material), John Little, Bey Logan (additional material) Cast Bruce Lee (Himself (Archival Footage)), Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Himself), Linda Lee Cadwell (Herself), Dan Inosanto (Himself), Ji Han-Jae (Himself), Bey Logan (Himself)Similar movies Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles , Blackhat , Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones , Kung Fu Panda , The Matrix Reloaded , Batman Begins Tagline You know the legend. Now meet the man. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey (Chinese: 李小龍：勇士的旅程) is a 2000 documentary on the martial artist Bruce Lee and Jeet Kune Do. The documentary includes never-before-seen behind-the-scenes footage of Bruce Lee's life, as well as parts of the original footage of his incomplete film Game of Death, which had been left out of the film.
Contents
Plot
The film has five parts, the first three of which present an overview of Bruce Lee's life, including interviews of his widow, Linda Lee Caldwell, Lee's best student Taky Kimura, Hapkido Grandmaster Ji Han Jae and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who co-stars in "Game of Death". The last two parts include 23 minutes of the original footage of "Game of Death".
Cast
Production
Five years after Bruce Lee's death in 1973, Golden Harvest used about 11 minutes of Lee's uncompleted original footage intended by him to become the film "Game of Death", completing the rest of their 1978 film using Lee look-a-likes. Twenty-three more minutes of Lee's original footage were considered lost for 28 years, until they were discovered by Bey Logan in 1999. John Little assembled these parts according to Lee's script notes, reflecting more accurately Lee's intentions.
Release
The documentary was released on VHS and DVD by Warner Home Video. It was also released as a bonus feature on the 2004 edition of Enter the Dragon on DVD. It was released with Lee's original English and Cantonese dubbing as part of the documentary.
Legacy
The dialogue of the song Be Like Water has been sampled into various Hip hop and Electronic Dance tracks and has been mentioned in academic works.
References
Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey WikipediaBruce Lee: A Warriors Journey IMDb Bruce Lee: A Warriors Journey themoviedb.org