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The Image of Bruce Lee was originally released in Hong Kong as 猛男大賊脂虎 Meng nan da zei yan zhi hu (International English title: Storming Attacks), although the Bruceploitation title was added for its American release.

The Image of Bruce Lee
Mandarin	猛男大賊脂虎
Directed by	Yueng Kuen
Written by	Zhaoquan Weng
Produced by	Alex Guow
Starring	Bruce Li Leih Chang Danna Bolo Yeung John Cheung
Music by	Frankie Chan
Distributed by	20th Century Distribution (North America)
Release date	31 August 1978 (1978-08-31) (Hong Kong)
Running time	91 minutes
Country	Hong Kong
Language	Cantonese

It is a contemporary (1970s) action film about Bruce Li as a special agent who teams with a Hong Kong police officer to crack a smuggling ring (among the smugglers: Bolo Yeung). Apart from the title, the only thing this film has to do with Bruce Lee is when someone tells the Bruce Li character that he resembles Lee.

Reaction

On the website Bruceploitation, 'Keith' more or less sums up the appeal of the film by writing:

"Oh yeah kung fu carnage and gratuitous full frontal nudity, with a formula that like that you can't go wrong! I liked this movie it was cool. Every five minutes somebody was getting in a fight except one time, but that was a part with the nudity, so that makes up for it. Watch this movie if you can cuz it's good."

In the fanzine Exit the Dragon, Enter the Tiger, Carl Jones writes:

"Image of Bruce Lee has been likened to an episode of The Sweeney with martial arts thrown in. It certainly has the look of a gritty 70's cop show...The fights are good and realistic and Li gets to show some handy moves with a Bokken (wooden Japanese sword) during one particular scrap with the boss's goons."

The film is admired by Quentin Tarantino who wrote "While it maybe lacking in the script department, and the fights, though good, are usually unprovoked and undramatic, the cast is good. "[1]

See also

• List of films in the public domain in the United States

References

External links

• The Image of Bruce Lee at IMDb
• The Image of Bruce Lee is available for free download at the Internet Archive

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