Enter The Dragon (DVD)

A long time ago, way back in 1988, I watched a film which changed my life forever. The previous night, using our recently purchased VHS machine, my father had recorded a Kung Fu film for us to watch. At five years old, I had not had much exposure to films, and I had no idea what Kung Fu was or meant. All the family sat together, as we used to back in the days when we were all young and living at home, and my father pressed 'Play'. Enter the Dragon started, and it was to teach me about Kung Fu. Enter the Dragon was my first introduction to Bruce Lee, who is arguably the greatest Martial Artist of all time, and it was one I was never going to forget. I became a ...

Way back in 1973, 35 years ago now, arguably the best martial artist the world has ever known filmed his final movie before his saddening and mysterious death in the same year. Bruce Lee starred in Enter the Dragon, a film that has made over $200 million worldwide to date and therefore is undoubtedly the most successful martial arts film to date, and a screening which helped propel the fighting style to fame. The charismatic Bruce Lee plays a martial arts teacher called Lee who travels and competes in tournaments around the world. An upcoming tournament is being ran by a man known as "Mr Han" who the British Government happen to have a keen interest ...

If you compare the covers of the US and UK video or DVD releases of 'Enter The Dragon', you'll immediately notice one difference. The weapon that Bruce Lee is carrying is very different – in the US edition, he wields a nunchaku (two sticks joined by a chain), whereas in the UK edition, he holds a rather plain looking staff. This is something that the British Board of Film Classification have long held an over-protective stance on – there's obviously no way that the British audience could see someone yielding a nunchaku, without wanting to try it ourselves, apparently. Well, the BBFC have recently seen the light, and under the new progressive ...