The Clones of Bruce Lee (1981)

Original title

神威三猛龍

Directed by

Joseph Velasco

Genre

Bruceploitation, kung fu film

Country

South Korea

Runtime

1h 31m

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 28 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Three Bruce Lee impersonators play cloned versions of the martial arts star who are brought together for a mission. They fight enemies using Lee's signature moves in a film built around his legacy.

campyenergeticnostalgiccheesyaction-packedlow-budgetlivelyexploitation

What happens

The Clones of Bruce Lee (Chinese: 神威三猛龍; lit. 'Godly Powerful Three Furious Dragons'; Korean: 사형삼걸; Hanja: 蛇形三傑; lit. 'Snake Shaped Three Elites'; Taiwanese: 複製人李小龍：三龍怒火; also known in English as Death Penalty on Three Robots) is a 1980 Bruceploitation martial arts film capitalizing on the death of actor and martial arts star Bruce Lee in 1973. The film gathers together several of the many Lee imitators who sprang up after the icon's death (including Dragon Lee, Bruce Le and Bruce Lai), alongside performers from the real Lee's films and other veterans of the Hong Kong movie industry. It has been called "The Mount Rushmore of Bruceploitation films". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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