Doigts de Bruce Lee

source: Bruce's Fingers

Out of all of the Bruceploitation actors, Bruce Le was probably one the actual best fighters.Bruce Li and Dragon Lee are also really good, however, it seemed as if they got better extras to beat up on. And if you want to see how badly this can effect a fight, click this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=xsaTSIh32qE. There, see how bad that turned out? However, this film fixes that problem, and pits Bruce Le up against such greats as Lo Lieh,James Nam, Cheung Lik, Chan Wai Man, Kong Do, Chu Chi Ling, Nora Miao, Leung Siu Wa, as well as that old guy from the Magnificent butcher that got beat up for stealing a chess piece. We also get a brief cameo from Bolo Yeung. So as you expect, the fights are pretty good.This amazing cast really helps the film out, and it also doesn't hurt that the soundtrack is pretty funky, too. The last 20 minutes is just endless action. The plot isn't worth explaining. Basically, Le plays Bruce Wong (seriously, that's his name in the movie) who is looking for "The Kung Fu Finger-Book", which is a book written by Bruce Lee that teaches the finger kung fu style. Why Bruce Lee didn't write something about Jeet Kune Do, the style he actually used, I don't know. I'd be lying if said this film wasn't with out its oddities. First off, I watched this dubbed, and I was actually laughing at how many times they mentioned the kung fu finger-book. They said this so many times, it began to come across as if they were just seeing how many times they could force it into conversation. There's also a chase scene. A very slow chase scene. Pitiful actually, but its really short, so whatever. Plus, the ending on my copy cuts off early. Bruce is killing the main bad guy and then it cuts to a back screen with "The end" pasted over it. I guess they did this to cut out some gore to get a lower rating, but considering the fact that this was made in 1976 and Hong Kong didn't have a rating system at the time, that wouldn't make any sense. I guess they just ran out of film. Anyways, if you like cheesy Bruceploitation flicks give it a go, heck, even fans of kung fu in general should look in to it for it's all-star cast. The fights are good, the story is utter crap, and the tunes are groovy. I enjoyed it enough, and I would advise you to rent it if you casually view these types of films, but buy it if your a collector, its a solid waste of a Sunday afternoon.

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Out of all of the Bruceploitation actors, Bruce Le was probably one the actual best fighters.Bruce Li and Dragon Lee are also really good, however, it seemed as if they got better extras to beat up on. And if you want to see how badly this can effect a fight, click this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=xsaTSIh32qE. There, see how bad that turned out? However, this film fixes that problem, and pits Bruce Le up against such greats as Lo Lieh,James Nam, Cheung Lik, Chan Wai Man, Kong Do, Chu Chi Ling, Nora Miao, Leung Siu Wa, as well as that old guy from the Magnificent butcher that got beat up for stealing a chess piece. We also get a brief cameo from Bolo Yeung. So as you expect, the fights are pretty good.This amazing cast really helps the film out, and it also doesn't hurt that the soundtrack is pretty funky, too. The last 20 minutes is just endless action. The plot isn't worth explaining. Basically, Le plays Bruce Wong (seriously, that's his name in the movie) who is looking for "The Kung Fu Finger-Book", which is a book written by Bruce Lee that teaches the finger kung fu style. Why Bruce Lee didn't write something about Jeet Kune Do, the style he actually used, I don't know. I'd be lying if said this film wasn't with out its oddities. First off, I watched this dubbed, and I was actually laughing at how many times they mentioned the kung fu finger-book. They said this so many times, it began to come across as if they were just seeing how many times they could force it into conversation. There's also a chase scene. A very slow chase scene. Pitiful actually, but its really short, so whatever. Plus, the ending on my copy cuts off early. Bruce is killing the main bad guy and then it cuts to a back screen with "The end" pasted over it. I guess they did this to cut out some gore to get a lower rating, but considering the fact that this was made in 1976 and Hong Kong didn't have a rating system at the time, that wouldn't make any sense. I guess they just ran out of film. Anyways, if you like cheesy Bruceploitation flicks give it a go, heck, even fans of kung fu in general should look in to it for it's all-star cast. The fights are good, the story is utter crap, and the tunes are groovy. I enjoyed it enough, and I would advise you to rent it if you casually view these types of films, but buy it if your a collector, its a solid waste of a Sunday afternoon.

With his death in 1973 the world lost perhaps the most charismatic star of martial arts. His legend continues to grow and since that time while there have been numerous stars to take on the format none of achieved the status of Lee. After his passing there were tons of imitators attempting to take on the mantle of martial arts stars but they were pale comparisons. In fact most of them were down right terrible. But their movies coming out when they did do deserve a place in film history due to the decision to use his name in every way conceivable. The variations of Bruce Lee's name were steady at the time. Some "stars" simply went by "Bruce" something. Then there were the variations of his last name including "Li" "Le" and more. Each actor had his hair cut to resemble the original star and more often than not there was some small resemblance in their facial features. But still they were nowhere near the expert Lee was nor had the amount of charisma he had. Which brings us to this film. The star here is Bruce Le as Bruce. As for a plot well that gets kind of tricky. The film jumps from one item to the next and gets so convoluted that trying to understand what is happening when gets tricky. Making matters worse is when good guys fight each other because they aren't aware they're both good guys. Basic plotline then. A bad guy martial arts expert and mob boss wants the "kung fu finger book" written by Bruce Lee himself. Throughout the movie he sends thugs to various places to search for the book. Then we have another story going on where a loser has a gambling debt to pay off so he tells his girlfriend to become a hooker for the mobster he owes the money to. She refuses but the mobster tells her he's going to make her. Why she gets to the point of being placed in jeopardy because of this so called boyfriend is one of many things that don't make sense. Not enough story? Well the girl happens to be Bruce Le's sister and he comes looking for her. In his search he learns about the mobster seeking the book and gets involved with that as well. The movie is filled with some of the most drawn out passive and wasteful scenes put to film. Moments of people sitting and talking but saying nothing, especially anything that moves the story forward. Scenes jump from one group of characters to another with no introduction of who they are or what they're involvement is but they meet and fight or confront one another. Why some people are questioned while looking for the book is never explained either. It's as if they bad buys pulled out a phone book and stuck a finger in it and decided that's who they'd question. To say this is a bad movie is to insult bad movies. It doesn't even qualify as a movie so bad it's good. Perhaps given the MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER treatment it might be bearable. As it is I would suggest it only to die hard martial arts fans and even they will be disappointed. Or perhaps if you want to collect every movie with the various versions of Bruce Lee clones you'll want to add this to your collection. For everyone else I'd suggest something more tolerable like finger nail extraction.

Lung men bei chi

This was one of the first movie, that i watched on video in the early 80´s, What i remembered was a lot of Kung-fu action, and pretty good acting, in that time the over the top sound effects when they were fighting was very disappointing, but still i remember one scene that was pretty strong, that was the snake torture, a woman tied to a bed having a snake that rattles between her legs. I think this movie is hard to get your hands on, but i still think it´s worth to watch. My rating is 6 out of 10