The death of Bruce Lee left an impossibly large void in martial arts cinema that, as expected, studios immediately tried to fill in as hackneyed and predictable a way as possible. Of course there were the clones of Bruce Lee – most notably Bruce Li, Bruce Le and Dragon Lee – and the other various imitators and rip-offs, as well as the numerous “sequels”, remakes and – most distressing – attempts to use old footage of Bruce (including footage of his funeral) in various wrongheaded ways. But even the opportunistic studios at the time knew that what they really needed
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