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      • ‘Birth of the Dragon’ is partly based on a true story. The film is inspired by the legendary battle between Bruce Lee and Wong Jack Man that took place in 1964.
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  2. Aug 23, 2019 · Birth Of The Dragon from 2016 purports to tell the story of Bruce Lee's real-life fight with Wong Jack Man - but the movie takes many liberties with the truth. Bruce Lee was already considered an icon before he died at the tragically young age of 32.

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  3. Based on Michael Dorgan's article "Bruce Lee's Toughest Fight", the film is a fictional account on the supposedly true story revolving around Bruce Lee who, as a young martial artist, challenged kung fu master Wong Jack-man in 1964 in San Francisco.

  4. Sep 17, 2021 · All of which is to say that, while the film is based loosely on an actual event, most of the characters and moments depicted in it are fictional (via THR). Lee's widow, Linda Lee...

  5. This is the period of Bruce Lee's life that is chronicled (and fictionalized) in the 2017 martial arts action movie "Birth of the Dragon" (PG-13, 1:43). In 1964, Bruce Lee (Philip Ng) is a skilled and cocky master teacher running his own Bay Area martial arts studio.

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    • 2017-08-25
  6. Dec 16, 2015 · “Dragon, according to QED and Groundswell, is inspired by the true-life duel between Lee and Wong Jack Man, who was China’s most famous kung fu Master. The no-rules fight took place in San Francisco in 1965, when the city’s Chinatown was controlled by Hong Kong triads,” the site reported, referring to the famed battle that led Lee to ...

  7. Aug 24, 2017 · This much is true: long before he was famous, Bruce Lee fought Wong Jack Man in Oakland, California, and the fight had a profound effect on how Lee approached martial arts from that day forward....

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