Bruce Lee

Ang Lee casts son Mason to play Bruce Lee in biopic

The Oscar-winning director’s 32-year-old son has been training for three years for the role

Benjamin Lee

30, Nov, 2022 @7:10 PM

Bruce Lee was the unlikely hero of 70s Noongar kids. Now he's helping us share our language | Barry McGuire

We recognised ourselves in that non-white superhero on the big screen. We knew there was a fight in him – and knew there was a fight in us

Barry McGuire

01, Feb, 2021 @1:31 AM

My favourite film aged 12: Enter the Dragon

The 1973 Bruce Lee classic was a genuine education for a white suburban boy growing up in the north of England. Nothing was the same again

Keith Stuart

29, Jun, 2020 @8:54 AM

Will the Kung Fu remake right the wrongs suffered by Bruce Lee?

After Lee was passed over for David Carradine to star in the 70s TV series, Universal must cast an Asian actor for its forthcoming film

Ben Child

22, Jan, 2020 @1:34 PM

Bruce Lee's daughter on resurrecting his lost TV epic: 'We righted the wrong'

Shannon Lee has finally made the martial arts saga her father dreamed up. She remembers ‘the inner energy’ of the kung fu superstar Hollywood – and Tarantino – made a mockery of

Sarah Hughes

05, Aug, 2019 @7:00 AM

Bruce Lee's daughter hits out at father's portrayal in Tarantino film

Shannon Lee says that actor depicting Lee was ‘directed to be a caricature’ in Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

Andrew Pulver

30, Jul, 2019 @10:41 AM

'A race against time': urban explorers record vanishing Hong Kong

From Bruce Lee’s mansion to Bauhaus-style Central Market, HK Urbex are documenting the fast-changing city’s fading heritage

Matthew Keegan in Hong Kong

06, Mar, 2019 @6:00 AM

Birth of the Dragon review – Bruce Lee takes a hit

This soulless biopic portrays the young kung fu master as insufferably smug

Wendy Ide

25, Feb, 2018 @7:45 AM

Birth of the Dragon review – unconvincing Bruce Lee origin myth

The romanticised touches don’t help this account of a private bout involving the martial arts star, pre-fame, in San Francisco

Peter Bradshaw

23, Feb, 2018 @6:00 AM

From Bruce Lee to Paul Walker: how Hollywood pulled off its biggest resurrection acts

Paul Newman is only the latest star to return to the big screen after death. From Philip Seymour Hoffman to Peter Sellers, here are some of the most celebrated performances from beyond the grave

Ben Child

14, Jun, 2017 @5:00 AM

Van Williams obituary

Actor who played the Green Hornet in the US television series of the 1960s

Anthony Hayward

11, Dec, 2016 @4:49 PM

Birth of the Dragon: makers of film about Bruce Lee respond to 'yellowface' row

Producer and director contest complaints that their drama sidelines Lee in favour of an invented white character, and other cultural insensitivities