Bruceploitation
Sign in to saveBruceploitation (a portmanteau of "Bruce Lee" and "exploitation") is an exploitation film subgenre that emerged after the death of martial arts film star Bruce Lee in 1973, during which time filmmakers from Hong Kong, Taiwan and South Korea cast Bruce Lee look-alike actors ("Lee-alikes") to star in imitation martial arts films, in order to exploit Lee's sudden international popularity. Bruce Lee look-alike characters also commonly appear in other media, including anime, comic books, manga, and video games.
Key facts
- Art movement.name
- Bruceploitation
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- Bruce Lee A Dragon Story poster.jpg
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- Super Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (1974, starring Bruce Li) is often credited as being the first entry in Bruceploitation.
- Art movement.yearsactive
- 1974–1982
- Art movement.country
- China, Japan, South Korea, United States
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Encyclopedic overview
15 sectionsContents
- History
- Actors
- Film and television
- Partial list of films
- Bruce Lee's double (lookalike)
- End of a trend
- Documentary
- Rebirth
- Comics and animation
- Manga and anime
- Video games
- Advertising and merchandise
- See also
- References
- External links
Bruceploitation (a portmanteau of "Bruce Lee" and "exploitation") is an exploitation film subgenre that emerged after the death of martial arts film star Bruce Lee in 1973, during which time filmmakers from Hong Kong, Taiwan and South Korea cast Bruce Lee look-alike actors ("Lee-alikes") to star in imitation martial arts films, in order to exploit Lee's sudden international popularity. Bruce Lee look-alike characters also commonly appear in other media, including anime, comic books, manga, and video games.
==History== When martial arts film star Bruce Lee died on July 20, 1973, he was Hong Kong's most famous martial arts actor, known for his roles in six feature-length Hong Kong martial arts films in the early 1970s: Lo Wei's The Big Boss (1971) and Fist of Fury (1972); Golden Harvest's The Way of the Dragon (1972) and the incomplete film Game of Death (1972), both directed and written by Lee; and Golden Harvest / Warner Brothers' Enter the Dragon (1973) and Game of Death: The Clouse Cut (1978), both films directed by Robert Clouse.
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