Lee's greatest performance.

I can't believe this. We're talking about showing nipples and what Lee is eating in the cemetery, and everything but what's most importance.

This was Lee's greatest performance. Not as a martial artist, but as an actor. It was not his fault Golden Harvest was cheap and production values were poor. He and Nora Miao shared tremendous onscreen chemistry and he was able to display great emotion without saying a word. His death scene was heroic and exemplified the triumph of a free man over his oppressors. He had to die, but it was on his terms, not theirs. I sincerely believe that even after the kung fu craze passed, Lee would have become a true leading man in a variety of roles, in the tradition of the great American actor James Shigeta, who is of Japanese ancestry.

Yes, the film is dated. However, it is an honest representation of the politics and racial animosities between the Japanese and Chinese at that time. Jet Li's modern remake is well-intentioned, but it's a lie. It reflects the attitudes of today, not 1908 China.



"Kung fu is Chinese boxing, not an Italian curse."