Lee's life is a touching tale depicting the struggle against a family curse of their sons dying young. That film would be followed up in 1978-five years after Lee’s untimely death at age 32-by Game of Death, which utilized doubles for Lee’s character, transitioning to posthumous footage of Lee-shot between Way and Enter-in the film’s climactic fight scenes (including one against his real-life student, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar,) in ascending levels of a pagoda, wearing his now-iconic yellow-and-black track suit.A dramatic biography about martial arts legend Bruce Lee (played by Jason Scott Lee *no relation*) who trains in Hong Kong and goes to America overcoming every obstacle from racism to rejection from his own people, to opening his Kung-Fu school, getting married and having kids. The Chinese Connection), 1972’s Way of the Dragon (which featured his famous battle with Chuck Norris), culminating with 1973’s Enter the Dragon, perhaps the most important action film of all time. Indeed, 1971’s The Big Boss successfully kicked off a new-though sadly short-era of cinematic collaborations in Hong Kong with producer Raymond Chow, followed up with 1972’s Fist of Fury (a.k.a. The films themselves, of course, stand as defining chopsocky classics that turned Lee into a global household name after his recently-lampooned 1960s run in Hollywood. Of course, there’s also loads of bonus material (brand-new interviews, rare footage and documentaries,) to tide over even the most insatiable of fans. Indeed, Enter‘s presence here is two-fold, with one presented as a 2K digital restoration of 1973’s original 99-minute theatrical version, and the other as a new 102-minute 2K-restored “special edition.” Also included is a high-definition version of Game of Death II, the 1981 sequel film, which, in its opening, utilized archived footage of Lee before turning the film over to a new protagonist.Ĭheck out the trailer just below for Criterion Collection’s Bruce Lee: His Greatest Hits, and get properly pumped.Īudio for each of the five films will be presented in their original monaural soundtracks in addition to alternate audio options, notably their original English-dubbed tracks.
and Lee’s Concord Productions shingle-is typically left off the vast array of budget releases and box sets for Lee’s films. Additionally, Lee’s signature film and iconoclastic actioner, Enter the Dragon, will also be included in this set an eye-opening addition, since the film-as a co-production of Warner Bros. The 7-disc Blu-ray box set will showcase 4K digital restorations of fist-flying films, The Big Boss, Fist of Fury, Game of Death, and The Way of the Dragon. The Criterion Collection has officially announced Bruce Lee: His Greatest Hits, which will be released on July 14. Bruce Lee’s cinematic legacy may already be secure, but it’s about to be boosted by impressive Blu-ray releases, courtesy of The Criterion Collection, that will see his five legendary, genre-transformative Hong Kong action films in a way we’ve never before imagine, digitally restored in 4K resolution.
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