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When superstar Bruce Lee vanished from the cinema world, a vacuum was created for an energetic star to replace him. A replacement almost exactly like him. For the next decade, a category of martial arts films from the east would sell fast and furious to the world, a genre that we today affectionately call "Bruceploitation." A bevy of sunglasses-wearing, bell-bottoms-kicking and nose-thumbing pugilists with names like Bruce Li, Bruce Le and Dragon Lee took over the cinemas through the 1970s and 1980s before settling into the bottom of Kung Fu history. Until now.

Actor and director Michael Worth has spent over a decade shining a light on this dirty little secret in action cinema history. Throughout his movie-going youth, he collected posters, lobby cards and everything else he could find illustrating the genre that helped fill the gap for him that was left by a legend gone too soon.

Over 150 posters from his life-long collection are within, demonstrating the contribution of one man that helped forge action cinema as we know it today, and the art that links that cinema to its humble but wild beginnings.

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