Biography:
his career improved dramatically. Some Taiwanese and Hong Kong producers decided to directly credit him as "Bruce Lee", even going so far as to use the real Bruce Lee's picture on posters. Li even appeared in Bruce Lee vs Supermen where he stars as Kato, assistant of the Green Hornet, just like the real Bruce. The producers really wanted to show Li as the "official" successor of Bruce Lee. In the 1976 movie Exit the Dragon Enter the Tiger, Li meets Lee who points to him as the one who shall repl...
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his career improved dramatically. Some Taiwanese and Hong Kong producers decided to directly credit him as "Bruce Lee", even going so far as to use the real Bruce Lee's picture on posters. Li even appeared in Bruce Lee vs Supermen where he stars as Kato, assistant of the Green Hornet, just like the real Bruce. The producers really wanted to show Li as the "official" successor of Bruce Lee. In the 1976 movie Exit the Dragon Enter the Tiger, Li meets Lee who points to him as the one who shall replace him. Li was dubbed the "Tiger" to Lee's "Dragon". This movie is considered to be one of Li's best. Li returns in Return of the Tiger, starring Angela Mao. In it, Bruce Li fights Paul Smith. Bruce carried on by playing in two unofficial sequels to Bruce Lee's classic Fist of Fury. His Fist of Fury Part II was acknowledge by director Quentin Tarantino as being a personal favorite, yet Li's Fist of Fury III is not recognized as particularly noteworthy. In 1978, Li reprised his role as Bruce Lee in Bruce Lee the True Story (also known as Bruce Lee: The Man & Myth), a biography film. Li choreographed the combat sequences himself. Being very successful, fans recognize it as one of the best biopics of Bruce Lee. Li kept shooting martial arts movies until the 1980s. He also directed movies, including The Chinese Stuntman (1981). Bruceploitation was jumping the shark and Li knew it. He had trouble separating himself from his Bruce Lee roles and had many rivals in the genre. In 1985, Ho ended his career after his wife's death. He returned to Taiwan to become a physical education instructor (his first dream) at Taipei's Ping Chung University. He also has taught martial arts for comedian apprentices. Since then he has appeared only very briefly in martial arts cinema or Bruce Lee documentaries. Li is considered one of the best Bruce Lee imitators, along with Bruce Le of Hong Kong and Dragon Lee of South Korea.
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