20/12/2023
🚨 The Important Cinema Club Masterpiece Classics returns to Fox Theatre on January 23! 🚨
We are presenting a very rare screening of one of our fave movies: THE DRAGON LIVES AGAIN, a wild 'n' wacky 1976 kung-fu comedy. Bruce Lee goes to hell, where he fights bevy of pop-culture icons: James Bond, Dracula, The Godfather, The Exorcist, “Clint Eastwood,” Zatoichi, Emmanuelle, and more! This is a lot to handle even for the king of kung-fu, but he has a two-fisted ally in the form of… Popeye the Sailor.
Action-packed and shamelessly funny, this notorious kung-fu comedy will put a permanent cigarette-burn in your brain. Long available only in shoddy bootlegs, it’s been preserved from the only known surviving 35mm print by AGFA, finally revealing the this landmark of Hong Kong exploitation cinema in all its glory.
In the years following Bruce Lee’s untimely death in 1973, countless film companies across southeast Asia tried to cash in on his fame… and no “Brucesploitation” film was more outrageous than this one In a purgatorial underworld, Bruce Lee (played by future Kung Fu Hustle co-star Bruce Leung...
