Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey
2000 1h 40m movie Film Hong Kong

Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey

“You know the legend. Now meet the man.”

Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey sits in the top 6% of Hong Kong films on this catalog — ranked #49 of 836 by TMDB audience score.

Synopsis

“You know the legend. Now meet the man.”

Legendary martial artist Bruce Lee is the subject of this thoughtful documentary by Lee aficionado John Little. Using interviews, behind-the-scenes footage and action sequences from Lee's last (unfinished) film, Game of Death, Little paints a textured, complex portrait of the world's most famous action hero

Reception Benchmarks

7.4
TMDB Rating
93
Audience Reviews
Highly Rated
Critical Tier

Ranked #49 of 836 Hong Kong films indexed here (94th percentile by TMDB audience score).

Rating is +1.1 points above the Hong Kong average of 6.3/10.

Among Hong Kong Documentary productions specifically: #5 of 14 (top 36%).

Titles With Overlapping Themes

Films and series that share thematic tags with Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey. Number on each card indicates how many keywords overlap.

Other Titles From Media Asia Films Ltd.

The 1999–2001 Hong Kong Window

Among 42 Hong Kong films we catalog from this window, Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey places #3 — near the top of its class.

  1. A Step Into The Past
    #1

    A Step Into The Past

    ★ 7.9 · 2001
  2. The Mission
    #2

    The Mission

    ★ 7.4 · 1999
  3. Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey
    #3

    Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey

    ★ 7.4 · 2000
  4. Running Out of Time
    #4

    Running Out of Time

    ★ 7.3 · 1999
  5. Jackie Chan: My Stunts
    #5

    Jackie Chan: My Stunts

    ★ 7.3 · 1999
  6. King of Comedy
    #6

    King of Comedy

    ★ 7.2 · 1999
  7. Fly Me to Polaris
    #7

    Fly Me to Polaris

    ★ 7.2 · 1999
  8. Victim
    #8

    Victim

    ★ 7.2 · 1999

The 2000s Hong Kong Landscape

Catalog density by release year across the 2000s in Hong Kong, 146 titles in total. Highlighted year (yellow) is when Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey premiered alongside 14 others.

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Position in Catalog

Released alongside 14 other Hong Kong films in 2000.

The 510th Hong Kong title from Hong Kong we index (earliest catalogued entry: 1955).

Our Hong Kong catalog contains 836 titles in total (828 films).

Audience Engagement

93
Reviews
80th
Review-volume percentile
81st
Popularity percentile

93 audience reviews — more than 80% of Hong Kong films in our index.

Popularity sits at the 81th percentile among Hong Kong films.

Thematic Fingerprint

Tags on Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey, grouped by how common each theme is across the full Asian catalog. Rare tags are more distinctive signals.

Distinctive themes · rare across catalog
  • behind the scenes · 3
  • retrospective · 1
  • reconstruction · 1
  • outtakes · 1
  • raw footage · 1
  • bruce lee · 1
  • jeet kune do · 1
Recurring themes · common across catalog
  • philosophy · 11
  • east asian lead · 10
  • interview · 7
Mainstream tags · widely used across catalog
  • martial arts · 369

Production Details

Primary CountryHong Kong
All Production CountriesHong Kong, United Kingdom, United States of America
Original LanguageEn
Spoken LanguagesCantonese, English
Production CompaniesMedia Asia Films Ltd., Warner Bros. Pictures, Concord Productions
Runtime1h 40m
Release DateOctober 22, 2000
IMDbtt0297814