The Image of Bruce Lee

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 byYueng Kuen
Produced byAlex Guow
Written byZhaoquan Weng
StarringBruce Li
Leih Chang
Danna
Bolo Yeung
John Cheung
Music byFrankie Chan
Distributed by20th Century Distribution (North America)
Release date
Running time
91 minutes
CountryHong Kong
LanguageCantonese

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

References
  1. Tarantino, Quentin (22 December 2019). "The Image of Bruce Lee". New Beverly.


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