Bruce Lee Fights Back from the Grave (1976) on Netflix
A lightning bolt strikes Bruce Lee's grave, and he climbs out. Korean martial artist Wong Han arrives in Los Angeles to learn how his brother Han Ji-Hyeok died.
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Plot summary
Wong Han, a Korean martial artist, travels to Los Angeles to find out what happened to his brother, Han Ji-Hyeok, and there he joins forces with Suzanne, a woman wrestling with troubles much like his own. Small-time criminals and thugs hound him as he moves through the city asking questions. The American edit opens with a bolt of lightning striking the grave of Bruce Lee and Bruce Lee rising from it, a sequence filmed separately and added later, while the rest of the story follows Wong Han and his search. The original South Korean version is titled Visitor of America.
Cast
- Chong Junas Wong Han (as Bruce K.L. Lea)
- Bae Su-chun
- Anthony Bronson
- Kim Mun-ju
- Charlie Chow
- Jack Houston
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Bruce Lee Fights Back from the Grave (1976)
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- The film's opening sequence, showing an unknown Bruce Lee imitator leaping from his grave after a lightning strike, was filmed separately and added when the South Korean movie was dubbed into English.
- The English-language version's music score lifts music from the soundtracks to Rocky and Rollercoaster, two films not released until after the South Korean release date of this film.
- The English dub's script repeatedly calls the Asian characters Chinese even though the visual evidence indicates that they are Korean.
