The Way Of The Dragon Limited Edition 4K Ultra HD

Having established himself as the biggest box office draw in Hong Kong, Bruce Lee leveraged his success into a new deal with Golden Harvest that allowed him to write, direct and star. He completed only one film under this deal: The Way of the Dragon. Tang Lung (Lee) is a naïve country boy from Hong Kong who is shipped off to Rome to assist a family friend whose Chinese restaurant is under threat from a local gangster. Training the waiters in self-defence while taking on Italian thugs single-handedly, Tang prepares for a bigger fight.

When the gangster retaliates by flying in fighters from America and Japan, Tang faces increasingly deadly opponents, culminating in an iconic showdown in the Colosseum. Lee's only completed directorial effort blends thrilling action, international locations and humour, and this edition is accompanied by The Final Game of Death, a new 223-minute video essay exploring Lee's unfinished second film.

Edition Contents

• Illustrated collector's booklet featuring writing on the film by Walter Chaw
• Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Tony Stella

Format

• 4K (2160p) UHD Blu-ray presentations in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible), restored by Arrow Films from original film elements, of the Hong Kong Theatrical Cut and the Japanese Cut via seamless branching
• Original newly restored lossless Mandarin, English and Cantonese mono audio on the Hong Kong Theatrical Cut
• Alternate lossless English mono audio on the Japanese Cut
• Optional English subtitles
• English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing on both English audio options
• Run Time 99 mins approx
• Certificate 18
• Aspect Ratio 2:35.1
• Subtitle Languages English, English SDH
• Theatrical Release Year 1972
• Main Language Mandarin
• Number of Discs 2
• Region Free

Special Features

• Illustrated collector's booklet featuring writing on the film by Walter Chaw
• Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Tony Stella
• 4K (2160p) UHD Blu-ray presentations in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible), restored by Arrow Films from original film elements, of the Hong Kong Theatrical Cut and the Japanese Cut via seamless branching
• Original newly restored lossless Mandarin, English and Cantonese mono audio on the Hong Kong Theatrical Cut
• Alternate lossless English mono audio on the Japanese Cut
• Optional English subtitles
• English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing on both English audio options
• Two feature commentaries, one by Frank Djeng & Michael Worth and one by Brandon Bentley
• The Way of the Camera, a documentary looking at Lee's filmmaking and fighting method in his directorial debut, featuring interviews with Golden Harvest producer Andre Morgan, martial arts experts Michael Worth, Jon Kreng, Andy Cheng, Frank Djeng, David Yeung, film historian Courtney Joyner and actors Piet (Peter) Schweer, Jon Benn and John Saxon
• Meet the Italian Beauty, a newly filmed interview with star Malisa Longo
• The Scottish Soldier Meets the Dragon, a newly filmed interview with on-set observer John Young
• Newly recorded select scene commentary by 'thug' actor Piet Schweer
• Archive interviews with co-stars Jon Benn, Bob Wall and Hwang In-shik and production managers Chaplin Chang and Louis Sit
• Trailer gallery, including a Bruceploitation trailer reel
• Image gallery
• The Final Game of Death, a brand new 223-minute video essay by Arrow Films that incorporates a new 2K restoration of all two hours of Lee's original dailies from a recently-discovered interpositive
• English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
• Game of Death: Revisited, an earlier attempt to reconstruct Lee's original vision from 2001
• Super 8 footage from 1974 of Dan Inosanto demonstrating the nunchaku
• Brief archival interview with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar from 1976