Media about Bruce Lee explained

Martial artist and actor Bruce Lee has been subject to extensive media coverage.

Media portrayals

See main article: Bruce Lee filmography. Films and television series that cover the life of Bruce Lee include:

(1976), a largely fictional biopic starring a Lee lookalike, Ho Chung Tao, billed under the name Bruce Li.
Spirit of the Dragon (1992), a Cantonese drama series produced by ATV Home based loosely on Lee's life. The series starred Chinese American actor David Wu as Bruce Lee.
(1993), a biopic in which Lee was portrayed by Jason Scott Lee.
The Legend of Bruce Lee, a Chinese 50-episode series that aired on CCTV, beginning in October 2008; it was intended to promote Chinese culture alongside the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics.^[1] The series starred Hong Kong actor Danny Chan as Lee. It has been watched by over 400 million viewers in China, making it the most-watched Chinese television drama series of all time.
Bruce Lee, My Brother (2010), a biopic directed by Raymond Yip and Manfred Wong, and co-produced by Bruce Lee's younger brother Robert Lee Jun-fai. Aarif Lee starred as Bruce Lee, with Tony Leung Ka Fai, Michelle Ye, MC Jin and Christy Chung also appearing. The film was released to the general audience on November 25, 2010, several days before what would have been Bruce Lee's 70th birthday.^[2]
Ip Man 3 (2015), a film loosely based on Bruce Lee's mentor Ip Man, features Danny Chan Kwok-kwan again portraying Lee after previously starring as Lee in the 2008 television series The Legend of Bruce Lee. Chan played Lee again in (2019).
Quentin Tarantino's 2019 film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is set during the late 1960s when actress Sharon Tate worked with Bruce Lee during the making of the 1968 film The Wrecking Crew, for which Lee was the fight choreographer. Lee is portrayed by Mike Moh.^[3]
Ang Lee announced that he's directing a Bruce Lee bio movie for Sony Pictures with his son Mason as Lee.^[4]

Various other filmmakers have previously announced plans to make films about Lee, including Fruit Chan and Terence Chang, Stanley Kwan,^[5] and Stephen Rivele and Christopher Wilkinson.^[6]

Books about Bruce Lee, Jeet Kune Do or both

See main article: Bruce Lee Library.

– written by his widow Linda Lee Cadwell. This book served as the basis for the movie about his life, .
Bruce Lee: Words of the Dragon: Interviews 1958-1973 – written by John Little.
Bruce Lee: The Art of Expressing the Human Body – also written by John Little.
The Dragon and the Tiger: The Birth of Bruce Lee's Jeet Kune Do, the Oakland Years, by Sid Campbell.
Bruce Lee Between Wing Chun and JKD – written by Jesse Glover.
Bruce Lee: Dynamic Becoming – a book about Bruce Lee's philosophy.
Bruce Lee: Fighting Spirit – a biography by Bruce Thomas.
Striking Thoughts – thoughts and quotes of Bruce Lee.
The Tao of Jeet Kune Do – a book assembled posthumously that expresses Bruce Lee's notes on martial arts and philosophy.
"On the Warrior's Path" by Daniele Bolelli (2003). The longest chapter of this book about martial arts philosophy is on Bruce Lee's philosophical legacy.
Unsettled Matters: The Life & Death of Bruce Lee, Tom Bleecker (former husband of Lee widow Linda Lee Cadwell), 1996, Gilderoy Publications, .
Be Water, My Friend: The Early Years of Bruce Lee – a picture book for children, written by Ken Mochizuki and illustrated by Dom Lee, featuring an account of Bruce Lee's childhood and early manhood, which the author says is basically factual.^[7]
King Dragon: The World of Bruce Lee – written by Norman Borine.

Bruce Lee documentaries

See main article: Bruce Lee filmography.

Be Water (2020)
Bruce Lee Lives (2011)
How Bruce Lee Changed the World (2009)
The Intercepting Fist (2001)
The Unbeatable Bruce Lee (2001)
(2000)
Bruce Lee: The Path of the Dragon (1998)
The Immortal Dragon (1996)
(1993)
Death by Misadventure (1993)
Martial Arts Master (1993)
Bruce Lee, the Legend (1977)
Bruce Lee: The Man and the Legend aka Life and Legend of Bruce Lee (1973)

Video games

See main article: Bruce Lee filmography.

See main article: Bruceploitation.

Bruce Lee, a video game published by Datasoft Inc under license in 1984.
Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story, a video game published by Acclaim Entertainment in 1993.
In Super Mario RPG, when Mario is about to fight a boss, his comrade Mallow stops him and says "Who do you think you are, Bruce Lee. You can't go in there with your fists flying". This was removed in the 2023 remake.
, a video game published by Universal Interactive in 2002.
, a Game Boy Advance video game published by Universal Interactive in 2002.

Comic books

See main article: Bruce Lee (comics).

Marvel Comics published, in the black and white magazine line under their Curtis Magazines imprint, a 35-page comic story-style biography of Bruce Lee in Deadly Hands of Kung Fu #28, September 1976. It was written by Martin Sands, with art by Joe Staton and Tony DeZuniga.
Malibu Comics published a 6-issue comic book miniseries, Bruce Lee, in 1995, although the story was a purely fictional adventure and the titular character had little in common with the real-life Bruce Lee. It was written by Mike Baron (who had previously written three comic stories for NOW Comics' range of Green Hornet comic books about the version of Kato played by Lee on the 1966 television series) and drawn by Val Mayerik (who had drawn the second Kato miniseries).

Characters based on Bruce Lee