THE CLONES OF BRUCE LEE
dir. Joseph Kong Hung & Nam Gi-nam, 1980
81 min. Philippines/South Korea/Hong Kong.
In English (dubbed).

SATURDAY, MAY 6 – MIDNIGHT
FRIDAY, MAY 12 – MIDNIGHT
TUESDAY, MAY 23 – 10 PM

The Mount Rushmore of Bruceploitation movies featuring not one, not two, not three, but FOUR of our foremost “Lee-alikes”.

Following Bruce Lee’s death, the Hong Kong Branch of Special Investigations hatches a scheme to obtain samples of his brain tissue and use them to create three crimefighting clones of the late master. “Bruce Lee 1” (Dragon Lee) is sent undercover as an actor to take down a gold smuggler, while “Bruce Lee 2” (Bruce Le) and “Bruce Lee 3” (Bruce Lai) are dispatched to Southeast Asia where they rendezvous with Chuck (Bruce Thai), a BSI agent who inexplicably also resembles Bruce Lee, to defeat an evil scientist intent on taking over the world with his army of bronze cyborgs. Little do our three Bruces know, though, that their biggest challenge yet still lies in wait.

Produced across Hong Kong, Philippines, and South Korea, the film is considered by many to be the ultimate Bruceploitation movie, not only due to the sheer quantity of Bruces featured, but also thanks to the involvement of many of the real Bruce’s former colleagues and co-stars, including Bolo Yeung—who appeared opposite Lee as the massive enforcer in ENTER THE DRAGON— and Jon T. Benn— the mob boss from Lee’s sole directorial feature, THE WAY OF THE DRAGON.