Then, of course, there’s Bolo Yeung, credited as Yang Sze, who portrays the heavy of the film, Bolo. However, quite a few masters of martial arts got their start in “Enter the Dragon”, such as Angela Mao, who portrays Lee’s sister Su Lin, who would go on to make a name for herself as the definitive female action star of Hong Kong cinema in the 70’s and 80’s. Mortal Kombat, with the character Liu Kang being a clear analogue for Lee and the entire premise of the series being the story of “Enter the Dragon” with fantasy elements incorporated. His portrayal of the Shaolin Monk Lee is the stuff of legend, and would influence popular culture for years to come, in particular video games – i.e. Needless to say, this was the film that made Bruce Lee an international superstar, albeit posthumously so. He set the standard for the kind of strength and ideals of mind, body, and spirit that are the cornerstone virtues of the warrior arts, and both he and “Enter the Dragon” itself inspired and continue to inspire one generation after another, Lee as the ultimate embodiment of the martial arts and the movie as the ambitious vehicle that surely catapulted his vision and art onto the centre stage of the world – forever!
We simply cannot deny that martial arts practitioners in every corner of the globe idolize him as a god and bow down to him, regarding him as the pinnacle of what we hope to achieve in our training.
His legendary status transcends the bounds of even human mortality, and he’s respected and revered as the ubermensch of combat mastery and physical perfection. In 1973, “Enter the Dragon” debuted in movie theaters across the planet and its status as one of the definitive martial arts movies of all time had already been cemented by the legacy of the man whose name would forever change the destiny of the martial arts for all posterity -Bruce Lee.
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