I saw this dodgy pseudo documentary under the title YOUNG BRUCE LEE: THE LITTLE DRAGON. I see that it's variously called THE REAL BRUCE LEE as well as about half a dozen repackaged titles. The year of release wasn't 1973 but rather the late '70s, either 1977 or 1979, although the finished product is so low budget and obscure that it's difficult to tell much about it.In any case, this is an ultimate 'Bruceploitation' movie; a look behind the scenes at Bruce Lee's life which basically consists of two elements: footage from movies that Lee made as a child actor, and clips from films featuring Bruce Lee imitators which pretend to be the real deal. Both elements are uninteresting; I've seen the clips of Bruce as a child actor in other, better documentaries (you know, ones that actually had narration and context) while the other bits simply consist of Bruce Li or Dragon Lee training in gardens and beating up random people. It's a pointless, plot less affair, and one I found that tested the patience to the ultimate.

The Real Bruce Lee? well, not unless you are really forgiving and decidedly myopic...More like the three not-quite-Bruce Lee's!: Bruce Li, Dragon Lee and some scratchy archival footage of the great one. Ardent fans of 'Enter the Dragon' may want to look elsewhere for their authentic Bruce kicks; but if, like me, you have a yen for crass, cash-in Brucesploitation you will certainly find much kinetic lunacy to enjoy here. Glorious old school Kung Fu, with nary a plot to impede all the relentlessly clunky, chop sock action. Personally, I can't get enough of this micro-genre, and spurious titles aside, Dragon & Li were always watchable pugilists, and this (Ham)-Fists of fury is no exception.

Clips from Bruce Lee's films he made as a child are followed by a knock off kung fu story without Lee that really isn't very good.I picked this up in the dollar bin and for a buck it was worth it. The opening stuff of Bruce Lee as a child is interesting since you see Lee's charisma even at an early age. Unfortunately the effort to stretch the film into something more falls flat since the non-archival stuff is really dreadful. I found myself scanning through the material hoping for something more that was good but it never came. I paid a buck. It was worth the buck to see the early films. It's not worth any more than that since after the early films is a good deal of really bad material.

This movie has all the looks of a quickie movie that was made to capitalize on the death of Bruce Lee in Hong Kong in 1973. I am sure there were many , many movies like this made back then. Luckily for us, this one survives and is dubbed in English. The high points of this 2 hour film which is really a half-hour documentary about Bruce, followed by a full-length Kung Fu feature supposedly called " The Ultimate Lee" and is claimed to be the next scheduled movie was to have done ( yeah, right...). The first half-hour is where this feature shines as we see selected clips from Bruce's first four films made while he was a youngster in China. We see clips from "The Little Dragon", "The Bad Boy", "Carnival" and "Orphan Sam". Included is the only scene Bruce ever did with his father. We see scenes of Bruce behind the camera and casual. We also see scenes of Bruce's funeral. This is all very good and the collector would love to get his hands on footage like this. I will offer a caveat though when seeking this documentary out. Beware of inferior dubs. There is a video copy of this being sold that has Bruce on the cover with no shirt and with the pattern of a rising sun Japanese flag behind him ( strangely enough...), this is an inferior copy that looks like it was copied by a handheld camera with the movie being shown on a flapping sheet. The picture is out of focus a lot of the time and is very frustrating to watch, especially the rarities when you would like to see clearly. But if you can find the clear version, it is worth seeing for the Bruce Lee fan.