In the early 1970s, a kung-fu dynamo named Bruce Lee side-kicked
his way onto the screen and straight into pop-culture
immortality. With his magnetic screen presence, tightly coiled
intensity, and superhuman martial-arts prowess, Lee was an icon
who conquered both Hong Kong and Hollywood cinema, and
transformed the art of the action film in the process. This
collection brings together the five films that define the Lee
legend: furiously exciting fist-fliers propelled by his
innovative choreography, unique martial-arts philosophy, and
whirlwind fighting style. Though he completed only a handful of
films while at the peak of his stardom before his untimely death
at age thirty-two, Lee left behind a monumental legacy as both a
consummate entertainer and a supremely disciplined artist who
made Hong Kong action cinema a sensation the world over.
SEVEN-BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES • 4K digital restorations
of The Big Boss, Fist of Fury, Game of Death, and The Way of the
Dragon, with uncompressed original monaural soundtracks • New 2K
digital restoration of the rarely-seen 99-minute 1973 theatrical
version of Enter the Dragon, with uncompressed original monaural
soundtrack • 2K digital restoration of the 102-minute
“special-edition” version of Enter the Dragon • Alternate audio
soundtracks for the films, including original English-dubbed
tracks and a 5.1 surround soundtrack for the special-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–film expert Mike Leeder; and on the special-edition version
of Enter the Dragon by producer Paul Heller • High-definition
presentation of Game of Death II, 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 all five films with Lee biographer Matthew Polly • New
interview with producer Andre Morgan about Golden Harvest, the
company behind Hong Kong’s top martial-arts stars, including Lee
• New program about English-language 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 “Bruceploitation” subgenre that
followed Lee’s death, and a selection of Bruceploitation trailers
• Blood and Steel, a 2004 documentary about the making of Enter
the Dragon • Multiple programs and documentaries about Lee’s life
and philosophies, including Bruce Lee: The Man and the Legend
(1973) and Bruce Lee: In His Own Words (1998) • Interviews with
Linda Lee Cadwell, Lee’s widow, and many of Lee’s collaborators
and admirers, including actors Jon T. Benn, Riki Hashimoto, Nora
Miao, Robert Wall, Yuen Wah, and Simon Yam and directors Clarence
Fok, Sammo Hung, and Wong Jing • Promotional materials • New
English subtitle translations and subtitles for the deaf and hard
of hearing • PLUS: An essay by critic Jeff Chang THE BIG BOSS
Enter a legend. Bruce Lee’s return to the Hong Kong film 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. In The Big Boss, he commands the screen with his
gravitas and explosive physicality in the role of a Chinese
immigrant working at a Thai ice factory and sworn to an oath of
nonviolence. When he discovers that the factory’s ruthless
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 martial-arts style,
Lee is a revelation, blazing across the screen with a speed and
power the likes of which had never been seen before. FIST OF FURY
Bruce Lee is at his most awe-inspiringly ferocious in this
blistering follow-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 school and the Chinese people, with his al
fists as his weapon of choice. Elevating Lee to a hero of near
folkloric proportions, this historical revenge fantasy blends its
stunning action set pieces with a strong anticolonialist
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 rtunity to add a touch of
goofily entertaining comedy to the typically action-driven
proceedings in The Way of the Dragon, which finds 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 physical 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. ENTER THE DRAGON At the height of
his stardom in Hong Kong, Bruce Lee was called to Hollywood to
make the film that, perhaps more than any other, defines his
legacy. His electrifying fighting style and the deeply personal
philosophy that guided it received their fullest expression yet
in this thrilling tale of a Shaolin fighter who goes undercover
to infiltrate a treacherous island presided over by a renegade
monk turned diabolical criminal mastermind. Released just days
after Lee’s tragic death, Enter the Dragon went on to become his
greatest international success and one of the most influential
action movies ever made, with its famed hall-of-mirrors finale
bringing together the physical and intellectual dimensions of his
artistry in one dazzling 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 original material by Enter
the Dragon director Robert Clouse to create an entirely new work
that testifies to the actor’s enduring place in the pop-culture
imagination. Using stand-ins, doubles, and archival footage to
compensate for Lee’s absence, Game of Death follows a
martial-arts movie star who, when he is threatened by a cutthroat
crime syndicate intent on controlling his career, must take his
skills from the soundstage to the streets. It all builds to an
exhilarating climax that is pure Lee: a tour de force of
martial-arts mastery in which the legend himself, clad in an
iconic yellow jumpsuit, fights his way up a multilevel pagoda,
with the towering Kareem Abdul-Jabbar among his formidable
nents.