Enter The Clones of Bruce on SBS Viceland SBS on Demand – When Bruce Lee died in 1974, at the peak of his superstardom, he had completed only four feature films.
But within hours of his funeral, Hong Kong movie studios began to produce hundreds of unauthorised biopics, sequels, prequels, spin-offs, and rip-offs starring a competing series of Lee lookalikes. Over the next decade, fuelled by both deception and demand, ‘Bruceploitation’ would become a staple of global cinema.
Director David Gregory now examines this uniquely ‘70s phenomenon via interviews with Bruce Li,
Bruce Le, Bruce Liang and Dragon Lee; martial arts movie legends that include Angela Mao, David Chiang, Phillip Ko, Casanova Wong, Yasuaki Kurata and Sammo Hung; and the producers, directors, distributors and experts – along with clips from the films themselves – that for the first time reveal the history, controversy and legacy behind one of the most bizarre and successful genres in movie history.
Enter The Clones of Bruce on SBS Viceland SBS on Demand – Premiere / Saturday 12 October at 10.15pm
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