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Ang Lee’s upcoming Bruce Lee biopic starring his son, Mason Lee, has been generating buzz, but the latter Lee is only the most recent in a long line of actors to portray the martial arts legend. Since his premature death in 1973, Bruce Lee’s life, work, and persona have been the subject of a plethora of different movies and biopics. Each movie and actor that has portrayed Bruce Lee has approached the lofty task from a different angle, providing a surprising amount of variety to the subject.

Despite having a relatively short life, the depiction of Bruce Lee in cinema varies widely from fact-based to lighthearted to quasi-exploitative. No matter how Bruce Lee appears in movies, however, his portrayals never fail to entertain. Here is every actor who has portrayed Bruce Lee (or a version of him) in movies.

Related: Why Jackie Chan Refused To Use Bruce Lee’s...

Jackie Chan refused to use Bruce Lee’s fighting style while making kung fu movies in the 1970s. After Lee’s death in 1973, the Hong Kong movie industry tried tirelessly to find a new actor who could fill the void left by the martial arts legend. During that time, Jackie Chan was among the many actors identified as candidates to become the next Bruce Lee.

Efforts to turn Chan into a Bruce Lee replacement called for him to do more than just act like Lee in his movies. Chan was also supposed to fight like the late actor. In his autobiography, Never Grow Up, Chan said that he was instructed by filmmakers to emulate Lee through his movements and expressions. Not only did Chan feel that Lee was someone “no one could ever surpass,” but he also felt that Lee’s fighting style as a whole didn’t work for him.

Like millions of you around the world, i love Kung Fu movies. It is the only real genre that keeps me going back for more and that is why i will always love Kung Fu movies.

I know many of you have probably seen many of the movies i will post about, but this is also for anyone new to the genre of Kung Fu and even Swordplay and looking for other movies to enjoy. I hope you enjoy the movies i have listed and please feel free to comment about any of the movies.

36th Chamber Of Shaolin (1978)

Studio: Shaw Brothers

Director: Lau Kar Leung

Cast: Gordon Liu, Lau Kar Wing, Lo Lieh, Wilson Tong, Lee Hoi San

Action Director(s): Lau Kar Leung

Invincible Armour (1977)

Studio: Lai Wah Film Company

Director: Ng See Yuen

Cast:John Liu, Hwang Jang Lee, Philip Ko, Tino Wong, Yuen Biao

Action Director(s): Corey Yuen,...

Deal will see an additional 50 screens equipped with RealD 3D technology across Ume’s Northern China locations.

RealD and Ume International Cineplex have agreed a new deal that will see an additional 50 screens across Ume’s Northern China locations equipped with RealD 3D technology.

The new deal will see a total of 100 RealD 3D equipped screens across Ume’s circuit, when combined with the 50 current RealD 3D installations at Ume’s Southern China locations. In addition to the expanded agreement, RealD has become the exclusive circuit wide 3D technology provider for Ume.

Installations across the Northern China locations have already begun.

See-Yuen Ng [pictured], founder and chairman of Ume International Cineplex, commented: “Currently, the world’s brightest 3D projection technology is provided by RealD. Ume International Cineplex Group will exclusively use the latest 3D technology of RealD. Among Chinese moviegoers, there is a tremendous demand for 3D movies, and there are more and more 3D movies being made and...

New Dragon Gate Inn is a 1992 Hong Kong wuxia film directed by Raymond Lee and produced by Tsui Hark, starring Tony Leung Ka-fai, Brigitte Lin, Maggie Cheung and Donnie Yen. It was released as Dragon Inn in North America.

The film is a remake of Dragon Gate Inn (1966). New Dragon Gate Inn was shot as a standard wuxia action thriller, with fast-paced action including martial arts, sword fighting and black comedy set in ancient China.

Now 20 years later, the movie as been brought back to life with its own high-tech enhancement. But it wasn’t Tsui Harks idea to bring this movie back, but old school producer Ng See Yuen (Drunken Master, Snake In The Eagle’s Shadow), he had this to say about the release, “There have been hundreds of Kung fu movies over the past twenty years. But few have managed to remain in people’s hearts. This...

In the mid-eighties Ng See Yuen’s ‘Seasonal Films’ company decided it might be a good idea to try their hand at making films with more international appeal, initially inspired by the success of a certain Hollywood martial arts movie.

But unlike previous attempts at international productions by the likes of Golden Harvest and other studios, where the main goal was to introduce a home grown star to the west, Seasonal’s aim was to make movies with a combination of American actors in front of the camera, with a mostly Asian crew working behind the scenes, putting together the kind of action that Hong Kong does so well.

Their first attempt, ‘No Retreat, No Surrender‘ was released in 1986...A film which would eventually spawn two sequels.

“Tonight, he either fights for his life, or he’ll be running for the rest of it.”

The original ‘No Retreat, No Surrender...