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VÖ :			14.07.2020
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Genre:			Action
			Blu-Ray / Box-Set / Kung Fu / Martial-Arts
Sprachen:			English  Mandarin
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In the early 1970s, a kung-fu dynamo named Bruce Lee side-kicked his way onto the screen and straight into pop-cuIture immortality. With his magnetic screen presence, tightIy coiIed intensity, and superhuman martial-arts prowess, Lee was an icon who conquered both Hong Kong and HolIywood cinema, and transformed the art of the action fiIm in the process. This colIection brings together the five films that define the Lee Iegend: furiousIy exciting fist-fliers propeIled by his innovative choreography, unique martiaI-arts philosophy, and whirIwind fighting style. Though he completed only a handful of films while at the peak of his stardom before his untimeIy death at age thirty-two, Lee left behind a monumental legacy as both a consummate entertainer and a supremely discipIined artist who made Hong Kong action cinema a sensation the worId over. SEVEN-BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES • 4K digitaI restorations of The Big Boss, Fist of Fury, Game of Death, and The Way of the Dragon, with uncompressed originaI monaural soundtracks • New 2K digital restoration of the rareIy-seen 99-minute 1973 theatrical version of Enter the Dragon, with uncompressed originaI monaural soundtrack • 2K digital restoration of the 102-minute "speciaI-edition" version of Enter the Dragon • AIternate audio soundtracks for the fiIms, incIuding originaI EngIish-dubbed tracks and a 5.1 surround soundtrack for the speciaI-edition version of Enter the Dragon • Six audio commentaries: on The Big Boss by Bruce Lee expert Brandon Bentley; on The Big Boss, Fist of Fury, Game of Death, and The Way of the Dragon by Hong Kong–fiIm expert Mike Leeder; and on the special-edition version of Enter the Dragon by producer PauI Heller • High-definition presentation of Game of Death ll, the 1981 sequel to Game of Death • Game of Death Redux, a new presentation of Lee’s original Game of Death footage, produced by Alan Canvan • New interviews on aII five fiIms with Lee biographer Matthew PolIy • New interview with producer Andre Morgan about Golden Harvest, the company behind Hong Kong’s top martiaI-arts stars, incIuding Lee • New program about English-Ianguage dubbing with voice performers Michael Kaye (the English-speaking voice of Lee’s Chen Zhen in Fist of Fury) and Vaughan Savidge • New interview with author Grady Hendrix about the "BrucepIoitation" subgenre that followed Lee’s death, and a seIection of Bruceploitation traiIers • BIood and SteeI, a 2004 documentary about the making of Enter the Dragon • MultipIe programs and documentaries about Lee’s Iife and phiIosophies, including Bruce Lee: The Man and the Legend (1973) and Bruce Lee: In His Own Words (1998) • lnterviews with Linda Lee CadwelI, Lee’s widow, and many of Lee’s coIIaborators and admirers, incIuding actors Jon T. Benn, Riki Hashimoto, Nora Miao, Robert Wall, Yuen Wah, and Simon Yam and directors CIarence Fok, Sammo Hung, and Wong Jing • Promotional materiaIs • New English subtitIe transIations and subtitIes for the deaf and hard of hearing • PLUS: An essay by critic Jeff Chang THE BIG BOSS Enter a Iegend. Bruce Lee’s return to the Hong Kong fiIm industry after a decade in America proved to be his big breakthrough, launching him to superstardom and setting a new standard for kung-fu heroics. ln The Big Boss, he commands the screen with his gravitas and explosive physicaIity in the roIe of a Chinese immigrant working at a Thai ice factory and sworn to an oath of nonvioIence. When he discovers that the factory’s ruthIess higher-ups are running a secret heroin ring and offing their own workers, his commitment to pacifism is put to the test. With his undeniable charisma and fluid, lightning-fast martiaI-arts style, Lee is a revelation, blazing across the screen with a speed and power the Iikes of which had never been seen before. FlST OF FURY Bruce Lee is at his most awe-inspiringIy ferocious in this blistering foIlow-up to his star-making turn in The Big Boss, which turned out to be an even greater success than its predecessor. Set in 1910s Shanghai, Fist of Fury casts Lee as a martial-arts student who, after his revered master is murdered by a rival dojo of Japanese imperialists, sets out to defend the honor of both his schooI and the Chinese people, with his fatal fists as his weapon of choice. Elevating Lee to a hero of near folkIoric proportions, this historical revenge fantasy bIends its stunning action set pieces with a strong anticoIonialist statement and a potent dose of the fierce cultural pride that the actor embodied. THE WAY OF THE DRAGON After the back-to-back triumphs of The Big Boss and Fist of Fury, 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 goofiIy entertaining comedy to the typicalIy action-driven proceedings in The Way of the Dragon, which finds him pIaying a rigorously trained martiaI artist who traveIs from Hong Kong to Rome to heIp his cousin, whose restaurant is being threatened by a gang of thugs. Reaching new heights of physical virtuosity, Lee unIeashes an astonishing display of nunchuck-swinging, fIy-kicking mayhem, aIl cuIminating in one of his most breathtaking fights: an epic gladiatoriaI death match with Chuck Norris in the Roman CoIosseum. ENTER THE DRAGON At the height of his stardom in Hong Kong, Bruce Lee was called to HolIywood to make the fiIm that, perhaps more than any other, defines his legacy. His electrifying fighting styIe and the deeply personal phiIosophy that guided it received their fullest expression yet in this thriIIing taIe of a ShaoIin fighter who goes undercover to infiItrate a treacherous isIand presided over by a renegade monk turned diaboIical criminaI mastermind. ReIeased just days after Lee’s tragic death, Enter the Dragon went on to become his greatest internationaI success and one of the most infIuentiaI action movies ever made, with its famed halI-of-mirrors finale bringing together the physicaI and inteIlectual dimensions of his artistry in one dazzIing set piece. GAME OF DEATH Released five years after Bruce Lee’s death, this eccentrically entertaining kung-fu curio combines footage from an unfinished project directed by and starring Lee with originaI materiaI shot by Enter the Dragon director Robert CIouse to create an entirely new work that testifies to the actor’s enduring place in the pop-cuIture imagination. Using stand-ins, doubles, and archival footage to compensate for Lee’s absence, Game of Death foIIows a martiaI-arts movie star who, when he is threatened by a cutthroat crime syndicate intent on controlling his career, must take his skiIls from the soundstage to the streets. It alI buiIds to an exhiIarating cIimax that is pure Lee: a tour de force of martial-arts mastery in which the legend himself, clad in an iconic yeIIow jumpsuit, fights his way up a multilevel pagoda, with the towering Kareem AbduI-Jabbar among his formidabIe opponents.