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BruceploitationBruceploitation is a cultural phenomenon mostly seen in the 1970s. After the untimely death of Bruce Lee, movie makers in Hong Kong and Taiwan hired a great number of Bruce Lee-like action actors to star in many cheap knock-off martial arts movies. Actors Bruce Lee's name in Mandarin Chinese is Lǐ Xiǎolng (李小龍). After his death, many actors by the names such as Bronson Lee, Bruce Chen, Bruce Lai, Bruce Le (呂(Lǔ)小龍 or Wong Kin Lung (黃建龍)), Bruce Lei, Bruce Li (黎(L)小龍 or Ho Chung Tao (何宗道)), Bruce Liang, Bruce Thai and Dragon Lee were hired by studios to play Lee-styled roles. Jackie Chan, who started his film career as an extra in some of Bruce Lee's movies, was also given roles where he was promoted as the next Bruce Lee. It was only when he made some comedically themed movies for another studio that he was able to gain box-office success. One of Lee's fight choreographers, actor/director Sammo Hung, famously satirized the phenomenon of Bruceploitation in his 1978 film, Enter the Fat Dragon. See also External links
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