LEGEND OF BRUCE LEE: Volume One Comes to DVD

In a school with mainly British students, Bruce Lee (Danny Chan) is dealing with bullying. Trying to make his family proud, Bruce performs in a dance competition and wins. This doesn’t sit well with Blair Lewis, a classmate who goes out of his way to make Bruce’s life miserable.

The fighting becomes intense and when his parents are called into the administrator’s office, harsh words are spoken about Bruce. His father becomes angry with the problems Bruce is causing. Trying to put his pent up frustrations in a better place, Bruce joins the boxing team which irritates rival Blair even more.

Knowing he needs more training, Bruce asks his Uncle Shao to help him with techniques. Needing more training, Bruce is sent to Master Ye Yong Chun Chuan (Spring Shadowboxing). Everything finally comes together as a friendship happens between Bruce and Blair with a win against fighter David Koffer.

When Wang Li Chao comes into the neighborhood, he wants Bruce to fight for him. Instead Bruce wants to protect those that the gangs are hurting and an angry Chao orders a hit on Bruce that almost kills him. Needing to get away from being hurt again, Uncle Shao takes Bruce to America.

In Seattle, Washington, Uncle Shao and within a few weeks he strikes out on his own and after a time enrolls at the Edison Technical School. While there Bruce calls out the karate team which doesn’t make them happy at all. They decide it’s time to have a battle to put an end to Bruce’s talk.

Bruce wants to take up the challenge but wants press to cover the event. Now it is Bruce against Master Kimura and history is about to be made. What starts out as a battle ends in a friendship and a sharing of styles, techniques and a style that is uniquely Bruce Lee’s.

Later Bruce enrolls at the University of Washington where after some time he decides to study philosophy. Believing that he can apply what he learns to martial arts he takes up the belief of the Yin Yang and actually begins teaching students for free.

At the urging and help of Kimura, Bruce opens his own school. He also meets Linda Emery, a young woman who listens to Lee’s philosophy and wants to know more. This is also when a karate master names Yamamoto challenges Bruce because he believes the young man has disrespected karate.

It is time to bring the truth of his martial arts to the world!

Chan as Bruce Lee has the benefit of eerily looking like a very young Lee. Playing the role from a young man to his time of opening a school of his own, Chan has his moments of charm matched only by his moments of intensity. Interesting side trivia is that Chan reprised his role of Bruce Lee in the film Ip Man 3 which is pretty awesome.

Taking on issues of bullying, family loyalty and racism not only from other cultures but of other martial art forms. It seemed everyone wanted to prove that their form of fighting was the best

Other cast include Michelle Lang as Linda Lee, Bary Daniels as Elliott, Tim Storms as Wally Jay, Michael Jai White as Ali, Traci Ann Wolfe as Julianna and Ray Park as Chuck Norris.

The 3-disc LEGEND OF BRUCE LEE DVD includes 10 episodes with a total of 451 minutes of storytelling. Well Go USA Entertainment is an amazing company that brings the best of Action and Independent films from around the world. There format includes theatres, digital, cable and VOD along with Bluray. For more of what they have to offer go to www.wellgousa.com.

LEGEND OF BRUCE LEE is an in-depth look at the life of Bruce Lee taking it’s time to let the story unravel on its own. There is actually quite a bit in these first 10 episodes that I didn’t know about Bruce Lee, an example is his ball room dancing! His life in Hong Kong I have read about but also never knew he experienced bullying in school.

Bruce Lee experienced so much in his short life and much of it was so challenging physically for him. From his paralysis after an accident in Hong Kong to being wheel chair bound in the United States, Bruce Lee’s resilience is really inspiring.

Lee’s daughter Shannon is actually given credit as executive producer of THE LEGEND OF BRUCE LEE. She also had a cameo in DRAGON: The Bruce Lee Story that is a 1993 biopic of her father.

In the end – it is a life of an iconic martial artist!