The Way Of The Dragon Limited Edition Blu-Ray

After establishing himself as the biggest box office draw in Hong Kong, Bruce Lee leveraged his success into a new deal with Golden Harvest that would allow him to write, direct, and star in his own projects. He only managed to complete one film under this contract before his untimely death, but it is undoubtedly his most personal and exciting: The Way of the Dragon.

Tang Lung (Lee) is a naive farm boy from Hong Kong who is sent to sunny Rome to help a family friend whose Chinese restaurant is threatened by a local gangster. He trains the waiters in self-defense while single-handedly taking on Italian thugs, but the gangster decides to take revenge by flying in some of the best fighters from America (including Colt, played by Chuck Norris) and Japan to take down Tang. Soon, the pillars of the Colosseum will rumble with the sound of Tang Lung's fury!

Lee's only completed film is unlike any previous kung fu film, mixing thrilling action, stunning international locations, and charming humor in a way that would prove to be highly influential on other filmmakers in Hong Kong in the years that followed. It is accompanied by The Final Game of Death, a brand new 223-minute video essay that takes you behind the scenes of Lee's second, and tragically unfinished, film as a screenwriter and director.LL FOR BLU-RAY IN LIMITED EDITION

Illustrated collector's booklet with texts about the film by Walter Chaw

Reversible slipcase with original illustrations and new commissioned illustrations by Tony Stella

DISC 1: THE WAY OF THE DRAGON

High-resolution Blu-ray presentations (1080p), restored by Arrow Films from the original film, of the Hong Kong Theatrical Cut and Japanese Cut via seamless branching

Newly restored lossless mono audio in Mandarin, English, and Cantonese in the Hong Kong Theatrical Cut

Alternate lossless English mono audio in the Japanese version

Optional English subtitles

English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing on both English audio options

Two feature-length commentaries, one by Frank Djeng & Michael Worth and one by Brandon Bentley

The Way of the Camera, a documentary about Lee's filmmaking and fighting methods 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 recorded interview with star Malisa Longo. The Scottish Soldier Meets the Dragon, a newly recorded interview with production observer John Young. Newly recorded commentary on selected scenes by "thug"-actor Piet Schweer

Archival interviews with co-stars Jon Benn, Bob Wall, and Hwang In-shik, as well as production managers Chaplin Chang and Louis Sit

Trailer gallery, including a Bruceploitation trailer reel

Photo gallery

DISC 2: THE FINAL GAME OF DEATH (BLU-RAY)p>

The Final Game of Death, a brand new 223-minute video essay from Arrow Films featuring 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

The Final Game of Death: Revisited, an earlier attempt to reconstruct Lee's original vision from 2001

Super 8 film from 1974 by Dan Inosanto demonstrating nunchaku

Short archive interview with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar from 1976

Image gallery