The Beginning
The Hong Kong action cinema scene was shocked when Bruce Lee died in a Hong Kong hospital on July 20, 1973. At the time of Lee’s death, he was Hong Kong’s most famous martial arts actor. When Enter the Dragon became a box office success worldwide, many Hong Kong studios feared that a movie without their most famous star in it would not be financially successful, so some studios decided to play on Lee’s sudden international fame by making movies that vaguely sounded like Bruce Lee starring vehicles, with actors who looked like Lee changing their stage names to sound similar to “Bruce Lee,” such as Bruce Li and Bruce Le.
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