The Dragon Lives Again (Deadly Hands of Kung Fu)
Well, it’s another surprise film! A surprise to me at least. I was unaware of this film’s existence. This played last week after the conclusion of For Your Height Only, and so I looked at some reviews. Stellar reviews! I promised I would go in blind on this with you all, but I had to peek. A peek turned into watching over half of it, and it is freakin’ hilarious. This time, I am going to let TUBI tell you about this film:
Bruce Lee is sent to Hell where he enlists Popeye the Sailor Man to battle James Bond, the Man With No Name, Emmanuelle, and Dracula.
There it is. Succinct and to the point. The only thing it doesn’t mention is random female nudity. Another thing, everyone except James Bond is Chinese, which makes the famous character impersonations even better. Popeye is wearing an absurd Ruby’s Costume Popeye outfit with the hat glued to his bald head. James Bond is an actual European, but he has massive mutton chops. And there’s Chinese Clint Eastwood. I would not be surprised if Swissy added this to the lineup of Narrowed Gaze pictures:
You would think Godfrey Ho had something to do with this. Surprisingly he did not, at least not formally. This was written and directed by one Chi Lo, who I am going to have to research at some point. For now, enjoy his filmography. Looks like an excellent set of B movies!
I really don’t know that is is fair to spoil any of this B movie masterpiece. This has more jokes and physical gags than you can shake a stick at. And it is done much better than you would expect. This does fall into the category of “Bruceploitation” which was films that came after Bruce Lee’s death which capitalized on his fame. I would go so far as to say this is THE Bruceploitation film.
So watch! Or don’t! Everything is voluntary, until you die and go the underworld to fight Dracula, James Bond and Clint Eastwood! Next week, I am torn. Just too many choices. I have a juggernaut (Richard Keil!) gone wild in The Humanoid, More supernatural kung fu (from Taiwan this time) with War of the Wizards, and Spaced Out, a low-level softcore Skinemax special. You decide!
Bonus Content!
Where was this a few weeks ago when I played For Your Height Only?
*Hits play*
It’s in glorious “Scratch-o-vision!”
Bruce Lee is sent to Hell where he enlists Popeye the Sailor Man to battle James Bond, the Man With No Name, Emmanuelle, and Dracula.
YES!
Diving in
So far, Bruce Lee adjacent sound FX good. Fight choreography tight. Clearly, clearly I say, this movie has had a very heavy influence on the John Wick franchise as well as Guy Ritchies Sherlock Holmes movies.
This movie is a hoot.
Popeye has experienced shrinkage of the forearms. He needs to eat his spinach.
The water was cold.
He’s got two squinty eyes, too!
Woah
This Snoop Dog™ is said it was 39%
For once I don’t think it’s lying. Was I watching a movie. Yeah, the fights are OK.
Who was the blind guy? Sorry, me no Chinese.
Kato vs. The Man With No Name?
It’s The Blind Swordsman, Zatoichi.
I’m wondering if the old blind guy is a take on Rutger Hauer’s Blind Fury character. Probably not. But it would be nice to see old Rutger get some love.
https://wiki.froth.zone/wiki/Zatoichi?lang=en
Yes, Blind Fury was a take on Zatoichi
I have an overwhelming desire to buy a hot tub.
Put in some dry ice, and they will come.
https://youtu.be/yAJnpaFRrlw
This has been fun. I need to drop off for the night. I’ll finish sometime tomorrow. Thanks RJ!
Welcome! May your workday be short tomorrow.
Chinese Clint for the fucking win!
Richard if you are out there send 2 puns, MLW wants one.
Thank you for you attention in this matter
Pins of puns?
I sincerely hope Richard sends you two puns.
Richard doesn’t show up Thursdays. I grabbed the Forum link to his post, he has his email there:
https://www.glibertarians.us/community/meetups/glib-pins/
I may have to watch this one.
Insane a surreal.
Im just about through Shlichter’s
latest and he predicted the Sydney Sweeney blow up, by name, before he published his book.
He has a few other predictions but Ill leave to the glibbies.
Do read, much payback, some very ugly, Dont give the writer any real power
Shlichter?
Kurt the writer, hes well known and an American asshole, which I admire
This guy
https://www.google.com/search?q=kurt+schlichter+x&oq=kurt+schl&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUqDQgBEAAYgwEYsQMYgAQyBggAEEUYOTINCAEQABiDARixAxiABDIHCAIQABiABDINCAMQABiDARixAxiABDIHCAQQLhiABDIHCAUQABiABDIHCAYQABiABDIHCAcQLhiABDIHCAgQLhiABDIHCAkQABiABDIHCAoQABiABDIHCAsQABiABDIHCAwQABiABDIHCA0QABiABDINCA4QLhivARjHARiABNIBCDg0ODFqMGo3qAIUsAIB8QVlrx5X6MdUAg&client=ms-android-charter-us-rvc3&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#ebo=0
I will look him up
BTW
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/american-eagle-rides-high-sydney-sweeney-ad-buzz-2025-09-04/
“random female nudity”
👈
I want to feed AI an endless stream of inane ’80’s B-movies and then unleash it upon the world.
I can help with that.
Well, chop to it. A predictable lack of hustle from Mr. Firsty, here.
Ooh, sick, preach it,
They are already getting fed Reddit. Isn’t that enough?
The third leg of Bruce? Okay, that’s funny.
AI-generated? 😉
Clint Eastwood is up next!
You mean you’ve got puns for Swiss?
The real Clint Eastwood or that short imposter from 1990?
The Man with the Narrowed Gaze. Needz Tuco.
“Blondieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! You’re a real sonofa – “
“Dig”
20 minutes in. I want my 20 minutes back. 😒
I am enjoying it for the second time. It is all kung fu fights at the end.
I’ll try again later. The commonwealth needs saving.
You have to be in the right mood for this kind of riotous comedy.
Bolo Yeung would have been fantastic in this.
Absolutely.
I always confuse Bolo Yeung and Sammo Hung, which aggravates me. It’s not that they look anything alike.
I love Sammo, he did some incredible films we just have no access to. Maybe I can find them on Archive.com.
In a minute Popeye is going to eat spinach and the music is going to play.
I bet you all thought I was kidding.
Trump is officially renaming the Department of Defense to Department of War.
Yay.
The resistance to it is that it’s going to be costly. Unlike renaming like 50 military installations.
“Lets have a war!”
Jackup the dow jones,
“Lets have a war!”
The enemy within
https://youtu.be/iUxkFCBPgx4?si=JHRvrMZfKWQ1i9wS
Give guns to the queers!
Sell the rights to the networks!
I refuse to believe this isn’t him punk’ing the world.
The idea is just so stupid.
just marketing
5-D Chess thought: He’s again using the Orwellianism against the party that’s changed “woman” or “mother” to mean all sorts of “birthing people.”
Kinda like the Natl Guard in DC or talk in Chicago, he forces them to defend the ‘safe, crime-free and pleasantness’ those Dem strongholds obviously don’t have. Change to Dept of War… angel optimist -in-me who never voted for Trump, is that doing so would make defending it more palatable to the masses.
What I *do* think it will do and already has, I s’pose, is throw another Distraction Dust grenade to Dems so they fret and froth, focusing on this while something far more important is going on. Possible it’s a good mix of both. Equally strong is neither being at all relevant.
This game is fun! I checkmate you, with the battleship, by Prof Plum on Park Place.
*defunding
Good.
That one has bothered me since I learned they changed the name long before I was born.
The War Department wasn’t renamed Department of Defense. The War Department was only the Army from 1798 to 1947. The Navy was a separate department. The War Department was split into the Departments of the Army and Air Force which were combined with the Navy into the new Department of Defense.
Those cats are fast as lightning.
I like general so over kung fu, less dog,
Tall Cans!
That was fun. Thanks, RJ. (needed more Chinese wimminz)
Lacist!!!
“Where are all the White wimmen?”
O’Keefe caught a deputy chief of the DOJ saying that Republicans would be redacted from all Epstein files leaving only lefties.
While I firmly believe at this stage that Trump is embarrassed personally by what is in those files, the reality is that neither side really wants them released because it was a bipartisan affair. Scumbags on both sides of the spectrum. And then you have the fact that it was likely an Israeli operation despite some people being so vehemently opposed to admitting the obvious. And even then, you have the fact that blackmail material on powerful people is just far more valuable when those people are free and still in power.
Nailed it bro.
Maybe, maybe not. I think he’s more concerned about it overshadowing his accomplishments and his ego is bruised.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/epstein-survivors-trump-not-implicated-220037039.html
What would overshadow his accomplishments exactly? If he just kept his promise and released the files like he said he would, this shit would have died down by now. Unless it was as I said above. A massive web of debauchery among our elites and our “ally” Israel.
Jeffrey was a blackmailer and not all of those used were underaged I’d presume: maybe he hooked Trump up with a couple Ukrainian supermodels or something and he’s embarrassed by that. He was also a money launderer and Trump could be implicated there as well.
Whatever’s the case, implicated in shenanigans or not, Trump and co. couldn’t have handled it worse.
I appreciate the insight Bret Weinstein brought to the Covid debacle.
Eric Weinstein is totally full of himself.
And the less said about Harvey…
What did Eric say?
He’s smart.
He’s not as smart as he thinks he is.
Meanwhile the CCP is smoking us in weapons and even if we engaged we wold end up a laughingstock, but hey, those steins are big newz
Just saw a prog meme that pointed out that the Nazis disarmed minorities before the Holocaust.
Oh the irony…
After 16 yrs I found on my myriad hard drives a slightly better quality version of my 2009 short film ‘I Was A Teenage Wolf-Man’ than the 2009 youtube compressed version and dubbed it with the final sound mix from that 2009 upload. Surely once I upload this I will have fame and fortune.
On Tres-sized duty nearly all day. CC, too, is roaming the aisles.
Be well, all.
Morning.
I’m confused at how I slept from 8pm-midnight then only managed short periods of laying in the dark in between bouts of cleaning around the house.
That sounds less than ideal.
Agreed.
I do need to get back on normal track, but waking up halfway through and not being able to fall back asleep doesn’t make a lot of sense.
Good morning, U, EfE, Sean, and Ted’S.!
U, it sounds as if maybe you’re ready to push bedtime a little later again so maybe you’ll get the needed number of hours sleeping without the bouts of wakefulness before it’s time to get up? 🤷♀️
I only got four hours last night.
Oh, yeah – you said you DIDN’T sleep in between the bouts of cleaning. Too much caffeine? I don’t know. I’d say just keep pushing back toward the final preferred bedtime. 😕
Other than that, how are you?
I suppose I’m all right. After work I plan to drop by the bank to get some rolls of quarters, because it’s right next door to the optomitrist, where I’ll set up an appointment for an eye exam because my eyes are getting tired in the early afternoon. Then I’ll continue on and do my laundry all before returning to the house where there’s more cleaning to be had.
Sounds like a plan! 🙂👍
Wake up, buttercups!
🤪🧈🥤
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXaxJHQBzWg
🎶🎶
Second day of no coffee. 🚫☕️
Christ what a bunch of assholes
More bunches of assholes: https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/jalen-carter-dak-prescott-give-their-sides-spitgate-after-former-uga-star-ejected/KOYECDPO7NFT7JDBF5PSJYHNIM/
Relevant
Also relevant.
Mornin’, reprobates!
Good morning, ‘patzie! How are you/yours?
Mornin’. Rained overnight, it should be bright and sunny today. Then a shitty weekend, yay!
The birds will be out in force looking to turd on your parades?
Starlings, hundreds of them. Annoying but they do eat a lot of bugs.
Mornin’ Glibs
Good morning, JI! How’s it going?
Well thanks, picked basil from the garden yesterday and made pesto. Hopefully the rain we got last night didn’t damage the tomatoes.
Good morning. May your workday feel short and your weekend feel long.
workday
Bwahahahahahahahahahahaha
I’m sorry to hear you’re unemployed. May you find gainful employment soon.
My parasitism transformed from collecting a taxpayer funded paycheck to a taxpayer funded SS benefits check.
Besides, I’m to busy enjoying life to work.
Mornin’ all!
I want my fall weather back.
Yeah. It hit 100 yesterday. And right after a cool down which I thought would last.
suh’ fam
yo whats goody
BD 🙂
I thought the Godfather was Elvis. Maybe the Colonel sued and they changed the name?