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The Best Bruce Lee Copycat Movies (And Why Fans Still Watch Them)

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After Bruce Lee’s death in 1973, the world wanted more — and Hong Kong studios answered with one of the strangest subgenres ever created: Bruceploitation. 


Dozens of actors stepped into the tracksuit. Some crashed and burned. Some swung for the fences. A few actually delivered something worth remembering.


Here are the Bruce Lee copycat movies that stand above the chaos — not because they replace him (nobody can), but because they represent a wild moment in martial-arts cinema history.

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