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Li Xiao Long zhuan qi (1976)
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I think this is the filck I first saw during a stormy night in San Francisco's Chinatown - terribly dubbed, choppily edited and I have been looking for this movie ever since. It was more fun that I remember having had watching a fake Bruce Lee movie -- ever!
There are several heavily symbolic montages with sappy lounge-style romantic musical themes, my personal favorite involved cross-cutting between the usual "romping at the beach" footage with what I think was a dachshund running down a hill ... an obvious tribute to "Battleship Potemkin" -- foreshadowing a life out of control.
I was so certain that this grindhouse goodie would disappear forever that I saw it 5 times in the course of the week it played at that Chinatown Cinema
(THIS IS NOT A SPOILER, BUT SCROLL DOWN ANYWAY> I NEED TO REMARK ON THE FINAL FOOTAGE
There is a wonderfully unintentionally hilarious tribute in song to Bruce Lee --- as Bruce Li, that is... which ends with the repeated cry of "Bruuuuuce! -- Bruuuuuce!", with mondo echo effects.
It just doesn't get better.