| Details | Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lNDLaSWmhY
Join us for an outdoor Made in Hong Kong Film Festival kick-off celebrating perhaps the most iconic Hong Kong film icon of them all: Bruce Lee, whose most famous film turns fifty this year. After the back-to-back triumphs of The Big Boss and Fist of Fury (screening in the Meyer on July 10), Bruce Lee was given the chance to write, produce, and direct his third outing as a martial arts superstar. He used the opportunity to add a touch of goofily entertaining comedy to his typically action-driven proceedings, which here find him playing a rigorously trained martial artist who travels from Hong Kong to Rome to help his cousin, whose restaurant is being threatened by a gang of thugs. Reaching new heights of virtuosity, Lee unleashes an astonishing display of nunchuck-swinging, fly-kicking mayhem, all culminating in one of his most breathtaking fights: an epic gladiatorial death match with Chuck Norris in the Roman Colosseum. Description adapted from Janus Films. (Dir.: Bruce Lee, Hong Kong, 1972, 99 min., Blu-Ray, Mandarin with English subtitles) Images courtesy of Janus Films |
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