The Story of the Dragon

1976
The Story of the Dragon
5.3| 1h31m| en| More Info
Released: 11 June 1976 Released
Producted By: Golden Sun Films
Country: Taiwan
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Bruce Li plays a young kung fu expert (and waiter) who is trying to live peacefully in San Francisco with his marital arts-challenged friend. But they run afoul of some American thugs, and the fight is on...right!

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Leofwine_draca BRUCE LEE'S SECRET is a straight Bruceploitation film starring Bruce Li. The setting is San Francisco and Li plays a restaurant worker who runs afoul of the usual gangs of thugs determined to test out their kung fu skills on our hero. There's a mix of training footage, some comedy involving kids and neighbours, and a whole array of fight scenes shot in typically 'street' locations such as parks, car parks, and alleyways. The action is plentiful and quite fun, although overly staged and a little slow by modern standards; Li has always been my favourite Bruceploitation actor so I was quite pleased to see him here. The supporting cast includes cameoing stars Hwang Jang Lee, Carter Wong, and Roy Horan.
Louise Allen This film should be examined in the context of its time and the cinematic genre to which it belongs. Whether or not it adds to or detracts from the name of Bruce Lee (an irrelevant consideration), it is a fine example of 1970s Taiwan produced martial arts entertainment. Ho Chung-Tao, who actually hated the appellation "Bruce Li" was a superb athlete and accomplished martial artist in his own right. The western members of the cast were all highly trained martial artists themselves: Phil Cohen was a student of Bruce Lee in the US, Roy Horan qualified in Shorinji Kempo, Alan Ellerton expert in White Crane, Xingyi and Tai Chi, Greg Talovic a Taekwondo instructor. Thus the fight scenes were perfectly acceptable and not as unrealistic as in some films. For martial arts movie aficionados, this film is a real classic.
gtbeast The man martial-arts filmmakers could never let go! How many Bruce Lee "wannabes" have there been? This time around Bruce LI explodes onto the screen portraying, who else, BRUCE (not Lee, nor Li, just Bruce)! Sure there have been many to copy the frenetic and amazing Bruce Lee - few have succeeded, many have failed. In "Bruce Lee's Secret" (as it was titled when I saw it), at least the director(s) had the sense to make it about the fighting; the more involved, the better! Bruce Li is a waiter in San Francisco, minding his own business, when, out of nowhere, American kung fu thugs want to make trouble for Li and friends. Who cares - watch this one for the plentiful martial arts action. If you are a fan of the bad dubbing found in most of these films, you will get a 'kick' out of the insanely poor vocal choices. Lots of action, lots of fun - just enjoy!
capnbobbert i saw Bruce lee: a dragon story [1974} and i started to cry because it disgusted me. I just read Bruce Li's mini biography on here and he stated that he won't play Bruce Lee's part because he knows he could never be him, yet i still ponder why he took the part of Bruce Lee in this film. In this movie Bruce Lee apparently is having an affair with a lady named Betty Ping who was supposedly his friend in real life. In the real world, she claimed to have never had any relationship other than a friendship with Bruce Lee so this movie is incorrect on so many levels. I hate these cheesy directors and producers who try to bring Bruce Lee back and trying to gain some money off of his death. It hurts even more because they're telling a false story about him. I mean...how do you think his wife Linda feels? She's watching a false movie about her husband having a love affair with a lady who claimed she never had a love affair with Bruce!!