Finally, after all these years, Bruce has been given a stage and allowed to show his worldwide fans exactly what he had in mind for this film. In my opinion, Bruce Lee: A Warriors Journey sets the record straight.
-- Linda Lee Cadwell (Bruce Lees widow)
In 1972, the legendary Bruce Lee filmed three action sequences for the finale of a film that he would never live to complete. Lee had entitled the film The Game of Death and it was to have been the most important film of his budding career.
For over 28 years, the bulk of the footage that Lee had shot for this film were believed lost to the ravages of time. Then, in 1994, award-winning filmmaker John Little (Bruce Lee: In His Own Words) discovered Lees original script notes, choreography writings and storyline and, with the blessing of the Bruce Lee Estate, set out on a personal quest to locate the missing footage and to restore the film to the late superstars original vision. Bruce Lee: A Warriors Journey is the result of that quest.
Bruce Lee: A Warriors Journey reveals the very soul of Bruce Lee for the first time; his battles against cultural and professional bigotry, how he survived his near crippling back injury, and how he developed a radically new approach to martial art based upon total freedom for the individual practitioner and of his journey to bring this truth to the big screen.
This film has been crafted with complete fidelity to Lees beliefs and original intentions. Spending over ten years researching and over six months meticulously re-editing the missing footage into its proper sequence, Producer/Director John Little also sought out the very individuals who worked with Lee on the original production, such as NBA superstar Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Hapkido grandmaster Ji Han Jae.
This film includes the most spectacular martial art action sequences ever filmed, presented for the first time in the exact manner that Bruce Lee himself had intended.
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