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Enter the Dragon and Bruce Lee

A huge hit, making US$350 million worldwide, Enter the Dragon mixed martial arts with a spy story and blaxploitation, inspiring manga, television shows, animation and comics.

Jeet Kune Do, the martial arts philosophy founded by Bruce Lee has influenced the creation of modern mixed martial arts. He started as a child actor in the Hong Kong film industry and his five feature-length 1970s films helped change the way Asian performers were portrayed. Matthew Sweet and guests look at his career, focusing on the film Enter the Dragon, which is one of the most influential action films made.
With Lee's biographer Matthew Polly, film historian Luke White, philosopher William Sin, and New Generation Thinker Xine Yao.

Producer: Luke Mulhall

You can now find a playlist on the Free Thinking website, Film on Radio 3: music, history, classics of world cinema.

From Matthew Sweet on sound tracks to star performers through films which have created an impact to old favourites, including programmes on Marlene Dietrich, Asta Neilsen, Jacques Tati, Cary Grant, Bette Davis, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Satyajit Ray, The Tin Drum, Touki Bouki, Kurosawa, Dziga Vertov, 2001 A Space Odyssey, Penny Woolcock, Mike Leigh, Spike Lee. Plus Radio 3's regular exploration of The Sound of Cinema and classic soundtracks

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44 minutes

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Tue 29 Mar 2022 22:00

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  • Tue 29 Mar 2022 22:00

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