Synopsis
Lee, (Bruce Lee) a Shaolin master, is approached by law enforcement officers to infiltrate a fighting tournament on an island run by a gangster named Han (Kien Shih), who has a lucrative business in slave trade and opium dealing. Han was also a Shaolin monk, but had disgraced the temple with his actions. Lee has a personal score to settle too.
Did you know?
- With Enter The Dragon, Bruce Lee achieved the sort of cross over success he had longed for. Produced cooperatively by Hong Kong and Hollywood interests, this was Lee arriving at the peak, hailed by both the US and Hong Kong as a legitimate star on his own terms.
- The movie was eventually released in August of 1973 and shot Bruce Lee to international stardom, though he had actually already died in July 1973.
- This movie was the last of the 4 Bruce Lee movies
- Despite huge success, the film production was beset with problems, including Lee's initial stage fright, accidents involving glass bottles, de-poisoned snakes, rivalry and fights between extras on the sets. Production ended with a bigger disaster - Bruce Lee's death just a few days before the film's release. He was 32.
- Among the numerous anonymous goons Bruce Lee beats up is a young stuntman we would come to know as Jackie Chan.
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Bruce is squaring up to a long- haired Samo Hung Gam Bo with Roy Chiao officiating as the head monk. This is shot at the outskirts of the village of Ho Sheung Heung in Hong Kong. This initial fight with Samo Hung was the last scene of the movie to be shot and landed up being the last scene Bruce Lee...
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Bruce Lee talking to his Shaolin master in the surroundings of the Tsing Shan Monastery in Hong Kong...
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Bruce Lee at his mother's grave which is shot in the Muslim Cemetery in Happy Valley in Hong Kong...
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Bruce Lee going to Han's island in a ferry via the Floating City in Aberdeen Harbour, Hong Kong...
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The long shot of this fictional island was created using the topography of Kau Yi Chau, and superimposing the mansion King Yin Lei, 45 Stubbs Road, and the tennis courts of Palm Villa in Tai Tam....
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The outdoor shot of Han's palace is the King Yin Lei, Hong Kong...
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The tournament at Palm Villa tennis courts, Hong Kong...
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The tournament at Palm Villa tennis courts, Hong Kong The scene at the tiered tennis courts where Bruce knocks out 12 people from all 4 sides took 32 takes. ...
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The final fight scene was modelled on the then interior décor of King Yin Lei...
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The Mirror sequence was a set created and modelled after the interiors of the King Yin Lei. This fight in the Hall of Mirrors is one of the most famous fights in the movie. The Hong Kong Mandarin version of Enter The Dragon has six extra cuts in the mirror scene. ...
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