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Released
1993 · FILM

Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story

A determined martial artist fights prejudice and personal doubt as he builds a groundbreaking kung‑fu school in America and rises to Hollywood fame, striving to prove that his philosophy can change the world.

“The mystery. The life. The love. The legend.”

Directed by
Rob Cohen
Written by
Linda Lee Cadwell, Edward Khmara
Runtime
119 min
ActionBiographyDrama

Synopsis

This film offers an insight into the life, relationships, and enduring determination of Bruce Lee. Beginning with his early years of intense martial arts training, the story follows Lee as he fulfills his dream of establishing his own kung-fu school in America. He soon attracts the attention of a Hollywood producer, launching a rapid ascent to stardom and a brief but influential tenure as one of cinema's most charismatic action heroes.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 22

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Peter AmundsonShot by David EggbyScored by Randy EdelmanDesigned by Bob Ziembicki

Box Office

1993 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 4.5× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$63.5M

Budget$14.0M
Worldwide gross$63.5M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $35.1M — 55% of worldwide · International: $28.4M (45%)

Also known as

  • Dragon - Die Bruce lee Storyde
  • Dragon – Die Bruce Lee Storyde
  • Dragón: La historia de Bruce Leees
  • Dragon, l'histoire de Bruce Leefr
  • Dragon - La storia di Bruce Leeit

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