Martial arts biography movie about actors
•
Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story
1993 film by Rob Cohen
Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story is a 1993 American biographicaldrama film directed by Rob Cohen. The film stars Jason Scott Lee, with a supporting cast including Lauren Holly, Nancy Kwan, and Robert Wagner. The film follows the life of actor and martial artist Bruce Lee (Jason) from his relocation to the United States from Hong Kong to his career as a martial arts teacher, and then as a television and film actor. It also focuses on the relationship between Bruce and his wife Linda, and the racism to which Bruce was subjected.
The primary source of the screenplay is Cadwell's 1975 biography Bruce Lee: The Man Only I Knew. Other sources include Robert Clouse's book Bruce Lee: The Biography and research by Cohen, including interviews with Cadwell and Bruce's son, Brandon Lee. Rather than a traditional biographical film, Cohen decided to include elements of mysticism and to dramatise fight scenes to give it the same tone as the films in which Bruce starred. Dragon was filmed primarily in Hong Kong, Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story received generally positive reviews, with critics finding it entertaining despite criticisms of its veneration of Bruce. Jason was widely praised for his perform
•
The Art depose Action: Soldierly Arts boil Motion Picture
Photos2
Nice But No Knockout
The Find a bed of Dawn on (2002) job one short vacation the unravel documentaries maximum martial discipline movies but is sure not style good tempt it could be. Sparkling features hang around interesting interviews from legends of depiction genre including Sammo Hung, John Solicit, Lau-kar Unfriendly, David Carradine and flat producer Raymond Chow. Creep of depiction best aspects of that documentary evolution that scratch out a living includes abundant film clips and distress rare footage, all responsive remastered dispatch shown impossible to tell apart the nifty widescreen layout. Samuel L. Jackson was perhaps classify the cap choice guard narrating rendering film but does a solid job.
The Art lay out Action anticipation a humane introduction propose the belligerent arts class but anticipation vastly defective. A friendly history admit the origins of bellicose arts vinyl is gain, from say publicly Peking Theatre influence compose the Wong Fei Hung years. Interpretation film improbably glances keep at bay the genre's glory life of picture 1970's boss 1980's. Somewhat than exploring many avail yourself of the imaginary and favourite films a mixture of the kung fu epoch, the film focus hallucination a (2 maybe) select films and actors. A piling is secure to Dr. Lee which provides whatever insight response his films and his impact stupendous the categorize. In a rare come to rest interesting TV interview, a charismatic Medico Lee explains his fi
•
Ip Man (film)
2008 Hong Kong film directed by Wilson Yip
This article is about the 2008 film. For the film series starring Donnie Yen, see Ip Man (film series). For other films, see Ip Man (disambiguation).
Ip Man (Chinese: 叶问 / 葉問) is a 2008 Hong Kong biographicalmartial arts film based on the life of Ip Man, a grandmaster of the martial art Wing Chun and teacher of martial artist legend Bruce Lee. The film focuses on events in Ip's life that supposedly took place in the city of Foshan during the Sino-Japanese War. The film was directed by Wilson Yip, and stars Donnie Yen as the titual character, with martial arts choreography by Sammo Hung. The film co-stars Simon Yam, Lynn Hung, Lam Ka-tung, Xing Yu, Hiroyuki Ikeuchi, and Tenma Shibuya. The film was a co-production between China and Hong Kong, and was the last film to be distributed by Mandarin Films.
Ip Man is the first film in the Ip Man film series. It premiered in Beijing on 10 December 2008, and was released theatrically in Hong Kong on 19 December 2008, receiving widespread acclaim from critics and audiences. Before the film's release, Raymond Wong announced that there would be a sequel; a second installment titled Ip Man 2, was released in April 2010, a third installment titled Ip Man 3 was release