Modern Brucesploitation(?)

[DrNgor]

A question @One Armed Boxer posed made me think about the progression of Brucesploitation as a (sub)genre. We can say that its original run lasted from 1974 (Bruce Lee, A Dragon Story) to 1988 (Bruce' Last Battle).

There was something of a neo-Brucesploitation revival thanks to Dragon Shek, whose filmography features (I openly admit I've never seen *any* of his films):

Return of Dragon (1998)          
Trinity Goes East (1998) 
Dragon the Master (2001)     
Dragon the Master 2 (2002) 
Iron Lion (2003)          
Dragon in Fury (2004)          
Phoenix from Shaolin (2005)          
Hero the Great (2005)

In the past decade or so, we've had a number of Bruce-related projects:

Finishing the Game (2007)
The Legend of Bruce Lee (TV - 2008)
Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen (2010)
Bruce Lee, My Brother (2010)
The Ip Man series, especially parts 3 and 4 (2015 and 2019)
Birth of the Dragon (2016)
Kung Fu Big League (2018)
Warrior (TV - 2019)

Do you consider the above films to be a sort of "3rd Wave" of Brucesploitation films?

[DragonClaws]

 

Hi @DrNgor, you might find some more 21st century Bruceploitation titles for your list in the following thread.

 

 

[DrNgor]

23 minutes ago, DragonClaws said:

 

Hi @DrNgor, you might find some more 21st century Bruceploitation titles for your list in the following thread.

 

 

Thank you. I admittedly don't spend much time in the Bruce Lee section.

Which brings up the question: Do we treat Dragon Shek as his own separate wave, or do we place his films in what would be the beginning of a second Brucesploitation wave that continues to this day?

[D1 Ma]

I know, it's off-topic, but for me the best Brucexploitation movie is A Fistful of Yen: