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Having established himself as the biggest box office draw in Hong Kong, Bruce Lee leveraged his success into a new deal with Golden Harvest that would allow him to write and direct as well as star in his own projects. He only got to complete one film under this deal before his untimely death, but it's arguably his most personal and exciting: The Way of the Dragon.
Tang Lung (Lee) is a naïve country boy from Hong Kong who is shipped off to sunny Rome in order to assist a family friend whose Chinese restaurant is under threat from a local gangster. Training the waiters in self-defence while taking on Italian thugs single-handedly, the gangster decides to retaliate by flying in some of the best fighters from America (including Colt, played by Chuck Norris) and Japan to take Tang down. Soon the columns of the Colosseum will rumble with the sound of Tang Lung's fury!
Lee's only completed directorial effort is unlike any kung fu film that came before it, mixing thrilling action, stunning international location filming and charming humour in a way that would prove heavily influential on other Hong Kong filmmakers in the years since. It is accompanied by The Final Game of Death, a brand new 223-minute video essay taking you inside the making of Lee's second, and tragically unfinished, film as writer-director.
Product Features
LIMITED EDITION BLU-RAY CONTENTS
- Illustrated collector's booklet featuring writing on the film by Walter Chaw
- Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Tony Stella
DISC 1: THE WAY OF THE DRAGON
- High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentations, restored by Arrow Films from original film elements, of the Hong Kong Theatrical Cut and the Japanese Cut via seamless branching
- Original newly restored lossless Mandarin, English and Cantonese mono audio on the Hong Kong Theatrical Cut
- Alternate lossless English mono audio on the Japanese Cut
- Optional English subtitles
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing on both English audio options
- Two feature commentaries, one by Frank Djeng & Michael Worth and one by Brandon Bentley
- The Way of the Camera, a documentary looking at Lee's filmmaking and fighting method in his directorial debut, featuring interviews with Golden Harvest producer Andre Morgan, martial arts experts Michael Worth, Jon Kreng, Andy Cheng, Frank Djeng, David Yeung, film historian Courtney Joyner and actors Piet (Peter) Schweer, Jon Benn and John Saxon
- Meet the Italian Beauty, a newly filmed interview with star Malisa Longo
- The Scottish Soldier Meets the Dragon, a newly filmed interview with on-set observer John Young
- Newly recorded select scene commentary by 'thug' actor Piet Schweer
- Archive interviews with co-stars Jon Benn, Bob Wall and Hwang In-shik and production managers Chaplin Chang and Louis Sit
- Trailer gallery, including a Bruceploitation trailer reel
- Image gallery
DISC 2: THE FINAL GAME OF DEATH (BLU-RAY)
- The Final Game of Death, a brand new 223-minute video essay by Arrow Films that incorporates a new 2K restoration of all two hours of Lee's original dailies from a recently-discovered interpositive
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
- Game of Death: Revisited, an earlier attempt to reconstruct Lee's original vision from 2001
- Super 8 footage from 1974 of Dan Inosanto demonstrating the nunchaku
- Brief archival interview with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar from 1976
- Image gallery
- Arrow Video
- 99 mins approx
- Bruce Lee
- Cantonese, English
- 18
- Bruce Lee
- Nora Miao
- Chuck Norris
- 2:35.1
- English, English SDH
- 1972
- Mandarin
- 2
- B
- Arrow Video
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Having established himself as the biggest box office draw in Hong Kong, Bruce Lee leveraged his success into a new deal with Golden Harvest that would allow him to write and direct as well as star in his own projects. He only got to complete one film under this deal before his untimely death, but it's arguably his most personal and exciting: The Way of the Dragon.
Tang Lung (Lee) is a naïve country boy from Hong Kong who is shipped off to sunny Rome in order to assist a family friend whose Chinese restaurant is under threat from a local gangster. Training the waiters in self-defence while taking on Italian thugs single-handedly, the gangster decides to retaliate by flying in some of the best fighters from America (including Colt, played by Chuck Norris) and Japan to take Tang down. Soon the columns of the Colosseum will rumble with the sound of Tang Lung's fury!
Lee's only completed directorial effort is unlike any kung fu film that came before it, mixing thrilling action, stunning international location filming and charming humour in a way that would prove heavily influential on other Hong Kong filmmakers in the years since. It is accompanied by The Final Game of Death, a brand new 223-minute video essay taking you inside the making of Lee's second, and tragically unfinished, film as writer-director.
Product Features
LIMITED EDITION BLU-RAY CONTENTS
- Illustrated collector's booklet featuring writing on the film by Walter Chaw
- Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Tony Stella
DISC 1: THE WAY OF THE DRAGON
- High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentations, restored by Arrow Films from original film elements, of the Hong Kong Theatrical Cut and the Japanese Cut via seamless branching
- Original newly restored lossless Mandarin, English and Cantonese mono audio on the Hong Kong Theatrical Cut
- Alternate lossless English mono audio on the Japanese Cut
- Optional English subtitles
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing on both English audio options
- Two feature commentaries, one by Frank Djeng & Michael Worth and one by Brandon Bentley
- The Way of the Camera, a documentary looking at Lee's filmmaking and fighting method in his directorial debut, featuring interviews with Golden Harvest producer Andre Morgan, martial arts experts Michael Worth, Jon Kreng, Andy Cheng, Frank Djeng, David Yeung, film historian Courtney Joyner and actors Piet (Peter) Schweer, Jon Benn and John Saxon
- Meet the Italian Beauty, a newly filmed interview with star Malisa Longo
- The Scottish Soldier Meets the Dragon, a newly filmed interview with on-set observer John Young
- Newly recorded select scene commentary by 'thug' actor Piet Schweer
- Archive interviews with co-stars Jon Benn, Bob Wall and Hwang In-shik and production managers Chaplin Chang and Louis Sit
- Trailer gallery, including a Bruceploitation trailer reel
- Image gallery
DISC 2: THE FINAL GAME OF DEATH (BLU-RAY)
- The Final Game of Death, a brand new 223-minute video essay by Arrow Films that incorporates a new 2K restoration of all two hours of Lee's original dailies from a recently-discovered interpositive
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
- Game of Death: Revisited, an earlier attempt to reconstruct Lee's original vision from 2001
- Super 8 footage from 1974 of Dan Inosanto demonstrating the nunchaku
- Brief archival interview with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar from 1976
- Image gallery
- Arrow Video
- 99 mins approx
- Bruce Lee
- Cantonese, English
- 18
- Bruce Lee
- Nora Miao
- Chuck Norris
- 2:35.1
- English, English SDH
- 1972
- Mandarin
- 2
- B
- Arrow Video
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The Colosseum... the battleground of Bruce Lee and Chuck Norris
From the thrilling fight choreography to the powerful themes of the film, this release is a reminder of just how influential The Way of the Dragon remains. The image is crisp and clean, with vibrant colors that pop, particularly during the iconic scenes set in Rome. The film’s lighting, which was often gritty and atmospheric in its original form, is given new life without sacrificing its vintage aesthetic. The clarity and detail in both the action sequences and quieter moments allow you to appreciate the choreography and camera work in ways you couldn’t before, and the fight scenes—especially the epic showdown in the Colosseum with Chuck Norris—are absolutely thrilling to watch in high definition.
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Get it for the extra disc !
The Way of The Dragon is fine, but with this edition you get a special treat : the 223-minute doc featuring all the footage shot by Lee for The Game of Death ! Fascinating stuff. Recommended
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