Ho Tsung-Tao

Ho Tsung-Tao

Born: June 5, 1950
in Taiwan
Bruce Li (Ho Tsung-Tao) began his career as a stuntman in Taiwan and Hong Kong under the name of James Ho. After the death of Bruce Lee, Ho was employed by producer actor Jimmy Shaw who gave him the name of Bruce Li. While Ho was finishing his military service, he appeared in Good Bye Bruce Lee. He would star in other documentaries in 1976 with The Young Bruce Lee and Bruce Lee: The Man, The Myth.

As Li, 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, a role originally played by the real Bruce Lee. He appeared in many Bruceploitation movies.

In 1985, Ho ended his career after his wife's death. He returned to Taiwan to become a physical education instructor 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.

Movies for Ho Tsung-Tao...

Enter the Clones of Bruce
Title: Enter the Clones of Bruce
Character: Self
Released: December 22, 2023
Type: Movie
Get ready to play a game of death … and another … and another. The wild documentary Enter the Clones of Bruce dives into the Bruce Lee exploitation craze.
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The Real Bruce Lee  2
Title: The Real Bruce Lee 2
Character: (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 2002
Type: Movie
Mostly a re-cut of the movie Dragon the Master 2 with 30 extra minutes of footage added from various Bruce Lee, Bruce Li, Dragon Lee, and Bruce Le movies.
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Jackie Chan - From Stuntman to Superstar
Title: Jackie Chan - From Stuntman to Superstar
Character: Himself (archive footage)
Released: August 30, 1996
Type: Movie
Jackie Chan - From Stuntman to Superstar is a documentary on Jackie Chan.
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Top Fighter
Title: Top Fighter
Character: Himself
Released: June 15, 1995
Type: Movie
Welcome to the world of the martial arts. A voyage for the times of the martial arts cinema, from the beginning in China in the 6th Century A.C. by a Buddhist monk, Bodhidharma, until the actual time and the influence in the world, with interviews to actors and historians, and a review to the most important movies of all times and to the most famous action movies actors. A magnificent jewel of this genre what nobody wouldn't lose.
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Cinema of Vengeance
Title: Cinema of Vengeance
Character: Himself (uncredited)
Released: January 1, 1994
Type: Movie
A documentary study of martial arts films and their leading protagonists. Included are profiles of such artists as Bruce Lee, Cynthia Rothrock, Jackie Chan, Jean-Claude Van Damme and John Woo favourite Chow Yun Fat.
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Death by Misadventure: The Mysterious Life of Bruce Lee
Title: Death by Misadventure: The Mysterious Life of Bruce Lee
Character: Himself
Released: December 31, 1993
Type: Movie
Death by Misadventure: The Mysterious Life of Bruce Lee exposes the truth behind Lee's death and the cover-up that ensued.
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Bruce Lee and Kung Fu Mania
Title: Bruce Lee and Kung Fu Mania
Character: Himself (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1992
Type: Movie
BRUCE LEE AND KUNG FU MANIA With action highlights from more than thirty of the greatest martial arts movies, this kung fu-fighting, karate-kicking compilation features the real Bruce Lee and his many clones plus Chuck Norris, Jim Kelly, and more. Here’s Bruce backing up The Green Hornet as Kato, battling Norris in Return of the Dragon, and making his last complete film, Enter the Dragon, plus the secrets of his mysterious death in Bruce Lee...His Last Days. You’ll also see Lo Lieh challenge Lee Van Cleef in The Stranger and the Gunfighter, Bruce Li carrying on the tradition with The Three Avengers, and Tae Kwon Do Grand Master Jhoon Ree in The Tattooed Dragon.
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Pink Trap
Title: Pink Trap
Released: April 1, 1985
Type: Movie
Two beautiful young girls who were raised in an orphanage join hands, arms and everything else to fight the bureaucracy's intent to close down their beloved orphanage.
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Amazing Masters of Martial Arts
Title: Amazing Masters of Martial Arts
Character: Archival Footage
Released: March 14, 1985
Type: Movie
This collection of archive footage from martial arts films offers an array of power-packed kicks, chops, leaps, and other dramatic fighting moves from expert martial artists Sonny Chiba, Carter Wong, Bruce Lei, and others.
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Dragon Force
Title: Dragon Force
Character: Dai Lung
Released: December 16, 1982
Type: Movie
Government agent Jack Sargeant teams up with an international crime-fighting organization to rescue a kidnapped princess.
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The Chinese Stuntman
Title: The Chinese Stuntman
Character: Tang Wei
Released: July 15, 1982
Type: Movie
The Chinese Stuntman was a Bruceploitation film released in 1981. Bruce Li (who also directs) plays an insurance salesman who ends up working as a stuntman on a Hong Kong movie.
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Blind Fist of Bruce
Title: Blind Fist of Bruce
Character: Yeh Chen Lung
Released: July 13, 1979
Type: Movie
The incomparable martial arts expert, Bruce Li, stars as a wealthy hero who defends his village from the assaults of ill-wishers.
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Bruce and the Iron Finger
Title: Bruce and the Iron Finger
Character: Bruce Li
Released: June 11, 1979
Type: Movie
After the murder of two kung fu experts, Bruce, a Police Inspector from New Zealand, decides to get involved in the case despite only being on vacation in Hong Kong. At the scene of the most recent murder, the victim managed to tear off a Buddha pendant from the killer. The link between the two murders is the strange markings on the victims neck. Bruce retraces the victims final footsteps and the search leads him to tracking down experts in Iron Finger Kung Fu.
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The Gold Connection
Title: The Gold Connection
Character: Ah Wai
Released: May 28, 1979
Type: Movie
Martial arts teacher Ah Wei (Bruce Li) discovers a hidden stash of Vietnamese gold while scuba diving with his friends and divides it up between them. The gang who stole and stashed the gold track Wei and his friends down one by one, in order to get back what they believe to be their property. Wei must use his Kung Fu skills to defend himself, and the people he cares about, in this brutal and thrilling martial arts noir.
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Fist of Fury 3
Title: Fist of Fury 3
Character: Chen Shen
Released: May 4, 1979
Type: Movie
After avenging the death of his brother, Chen Shen (Bruce Li) returns home from Shanghai. He tells his mother (who went blind from crying over her son's death) that he will no longer fight. However, being a movie with the words "fist" and "fury" in the title, Chen doesn't keep his promise for very long. Japanese occupiers who are aware of Chen's history terrorize his family by, among other things, vandalizing his mother's store and beating up his brother. Later, they frame Chen for a murder. After the Japanese boss arrives in town and causes a ruckus, Chen breaks out of jail for a final confrontation.
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Fists Of Bruce Lee
Title: Fists Of Bruce Lee
Character: Lee Min-Chin
Released: April 17, 1979
Type: Movie
Bruce Lee (Bruce Li) is assigned to go undercover as Lee Min-Chin to investigate a drug ring. The mob hires an assassin to kill him. They are both great at what they do; as they fight to the death only one will come out alive.
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The Lama Avenger
Title: The Lama Avenger
Character: Hong Tian-De
Released: March 15, 1979
Type: Movie
When two acrobats are fired for fighting with punks in the audience, they go to live with an aunt who's being pressured to sell her house for a real estate development. The developer's nasty son, Lee Fu, decides to muscle the sale, and soon he's at war with the acrobats, plus their unlikely ally, an American named John who used to be Lee Fu's friend. The acrobats open a kung fu school, the scene of several battles with Lee Fu's thugs. A fight to the death, jail time, auntie's surprise decision, a budding acting career, a possessive girlfriend, a debilitating injury, a friendship that needs recalibrating, and Lee Fu's avenger are all in the mix before the end.
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Storming Attacks
Title: Storming Attacks
Character: Dragon - Special Squad Leader
Released: August 31, 1978
Type: Movie
A band of counterfeiters wants to make Hong Kong their new territory. The disgraced leader of the Special Squad will have to team-up with a group of Hong Kong police officers in an attempt to stop the dirty business of crime lord Han Tin Lung, but Han's problem is not only the interference of the Police force, but his Japanese ally Kimura is not happy with his 'cut' in the counterfeit deal and will try to put Donna (a relative of Han) on his side to make Han's business his own property. Both policemen and criminals are highly trained Martial Arts fighters and they will have the chance to prove who has the best Kung Fu techniques.
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Bruce Lee in New Guinea
Title: Bruce Lee in New Guinea
Character: Wan Li
Released: June 29, 1978
Type: Movie
The tribe of a remote island worships the legendary Snake Pearl. Two masters of kung fu visit the isle and discover they must defend the daughter of the murdered chief against a evil wizard.
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Bruce Li's Magnum Fist
Title: Bruce Li's Magnum Fist
Released: June 11, 1978
Type: Movie
During World War II, Japanese soldiers invade a small Chinese town. Li immediately takes out four of the soldiers who want to steal some chickens. The story then follows the bumbling Japanese soldiers and their commander until Li shows up again for a big forest brawl in yet another classic foot and fist battle. The film finally ends when the mean spirited Japanese give up on the war!
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Deadly Strike
Title: Deadly Strike
Character: Captain Ling
Released: June 11, 1978
Type: Movie
The new police chief (Bruce Li) arrives in a small provincial town. He's been charged with bringing a dangerous gang to justice. But within seconds, the chief provokes a showdown with his lazy deputies. Realizing that they are not up to the job, he enlists the help of some of his prisoners, offering pardons to those who survive the encounter with the gang. These include a widower (Wang Yung Sheng), imprisoned for killing the men who murdered his wife, a knife-throwing expert (Lung Fei) also doing time for the murder of a corrupt magistrate, a pickpocket, and a young orphan girl out to avenge her parents' death. The chief reveals his coldblooded dedication to the mission when he hangs one prisoner for trying to escape. The group - both prisoners and police - ultimately bond together and track down the gang's headquarters to find the leader (Chen Hsing). After a long and bloody melee, everyone lies dead except the chief.
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Dynamo
Title: Dynamo
Character: Lee Ting Yee
Released: April 18, 1978
Type: Movie
Nobody would think that Bruce Li and Yuen Wo Ping has much in common but this epic film proves otherwise. After the death of Bruce Lee a new star is chosen and mayhem follows. The whole Yuen Clan contributes in what could be Li's greatest action scenes.
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Edge of Fury
Title: Edge of Fury
Character: Fong Pao
Released: February 23, 1978
Type: Movie
A chauffeur is pursued by drug dealers after his boss, a convicted drug kingpin, is sentenced to death.
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Bruce Lee The Invincible
Title: Bruce Lee The Invincible
Character: Yu Fong
Released: February 17, 1978
Type: Movie
After turning against friends of his Kung Fu teacher, Cheung Li Kung is banished to Malaysia, but instead of reforming, Cheung sets up a casino to steal wages back from the miners who work for him. When he also kidnaps the local store owner's daughter, and beats her after she refuses his advances, only those familiar with the invincible techniques of Bruce Lee can stop Cheung's evil use of Kung Fu. They must battle the menacing Malaysian bullwhip expert, and even berserk apes, in furious non-stop action that demonstrates the Shaolin Grand Master's deadly dragon fist, snake and tiger techniques.
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Soul Brothers of Kung Fu
Title: Soul Brothers of Kung Fu
Character: Wong Wei-lung
Released: October 19, 1977
Type: Movie
Two illegal immigrants meet a young kid and the three become best friends until one of them joins the Triads. Now the remaining two must fight the Triads in a battle to the death.
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Fist of Fury 2
Title: Fist of Fury 2
Character: Chen Shen
Released: September 13, 1977
Type: Movie
After Chen Zhen's execution in Shanghai, the Japanese feared that his death would unite all Chinese kung fu schools against them. Fearing this, the Japanese gave orders to the head of the Hong Ku School, Miyamoto (Lo Lieh) to surpass all Chinese schools including the Ching Wu School. When they refuse, the Japanese beat up the students and destroys the school. Meanwhile, one Chinese learns about the destruction of the Ching Wu School when he goes to Shanghai to visit Chen Zhen's grave. This Chinese is the only one who has the guts to fight the Japanese, this Chinese is known as Chen Shen (Bruce Li) who is the brother of Chen Zhen and he vows to avenge his brother's death and end the terror of the Japanese once and for all.
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Return of the Tiger
Title: Return of the Tiger
Character: Chang Hung
Released: June 10, 1977
Type: Movie
Chang Hung, an agent who works for a rival organization, and his female partner devise an elaborate plan to take out a heroin ring led by the nefarious kingpin, Paul the Westerner.
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The Real Bruce Lee
Title: The Real Bruce Lee
Character: Himself (archive footage)
Released: January 13, 1977
Type: Movie
The Real Bruce Lee is a martial arts documentary. It begins with a brief biography of Bruce Lee, and shows scenes from four of his childhood films, Bad Boy, Orphan Sam, Kid Cheung, and The Carnival, each sepia-toned and dubbed to English. Next, there is a three-minute highlight reel of Lee imitator Bruce Li. Finally, there is a feature-length film starring Lee imitator Dragon Lee, which is obviously modeled after Bruce Lee's Fist of Fury.
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Bruce Lee: The Man, The Myth
Title: Bruce Lee: The Man, The Myth
Character: Bruce Lee
Released: October 28, 1976
Type: Movie
A highly fictionalized biography of the famous Bruce Lee, this movie traces his college life, his marriage to Linda Lee, his relationship with his master, and his untimely death.
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The Story of the Dragon
Title: The Story of the Dragon
Character: Bruce Lee
Released: June 11, 1976
Type: Movie
Bruce Li plays a young kung fu expert (and waiter) who is trying to live peacefully in San Francisco with his marital arts-challenged friend. But they run afoul of some American thugs, and the fight is on...right!
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The Dragon Lives
Title: The Dragon Lives
Character: Bruce Lee
Released: June 11, 1976
Type: Movie
Biopic of the life and death of the legendary Bruce Lee, played by Bruce Li.
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Exit the Dragon, Enter the Tiger
Title: Exit the Dragon, Enter the Tiger
Character: David Lee / The Tiger
Released: January 2, 1976
Type: Movie
This martial arts movie tries to explain the strange death of the international movie star and kung fu master Bruce Lee. Most of the story centers on a former disciple of Lee who launches a private investigation and ends up avenging the brutal death of his own girlfriend.
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The Ming Patriots
Title: The Ming Patriots
Character: Li Ti-lung
Released: January 1, 1976
Type: Movie
Bruce Li stars as a kung fu fighter who with a group friends defies the Ching Dynasty, using his martial arts and sense of honor he succeeds though not without some personal losses.
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Legend of Bruce Lee
Title: Legend of Bruce Lee
Character: Bruce
Released: January 1, 1976
Type: Movie
The young Bruce Lee (Ho Tsung-Tao AKA Bruce Li) has studied the philosophy and art of kung fu since boyhood, but his girlfriend says that he lives in a world of his own and all he thinks of is fighting. She begs him to change his ways, yet after a humiliating defeat Bruce vows that it will never happen again, and while witnessing street thugs preying on innocent people, he is driven to defend them. Things appear to be no better when Bruce comes to the United States to begin teaching, and is under constant attack by rival martial artists, but all the while his unorthodox style is beginning to catch on. Finally he becomes an international sensation as a movie star with a wife, kids, money, and everything he's always wanted - who then must fight for both his life and his reputation back home in Hong Kong.
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Conspiracy
Title: Conspiracy
Character: Shih Yu-lung
Released: December 31, 1975
Type: Movie
To gain control of a gold mine, the owner Ho Kwai-Shan is poisoned by the Lee family. His daughter Yu-Ling is staying with her uncle at his martial arts school and was due to return home. Just before she leaves, the masters son, Sha Yu-Lung, returns home to teach at his a fathers school. Sha is given the task of taking Yu-Ling home but she takes an instant disliking to him
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Bruce Lee Against Supermen
Title: Bruce Lee Against Supermen
Character: Kato
Released: June 11, 1975
Type: Movie
"The Green Hornet" (a red spandex and cape wearing duo) is called in to assist in rescuing a kidnapped scientist.
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Goodbye Bruce Lee: His Last Game of Death
Title: Goodbye Bruce Lee: His Last Game of Death
Character: Lee Hon Hung
Released: February 16, 1975
Type: Movie
A young man (Bruce Li) unwittingly gets wrapped up in a money scam. When he refuses to give the cash back, the bad guys kidnap his girlfriend and hold her hostage in the Tower Of Death. Once there, he is given two options. Watch his girlfriend get thrown off the top or fight various martial artists on 7 different levels to win his girlfriend back.
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Golden Sun
Title: Golden Sun
Character: Stone
Released: January 1, 1975
Type: Movie
Stone, a martial arts teacher and avid Bruce Lee fan, is crushed when he learns of his hero's sudden death. After a night of trying to drink himself out of his depression, Stone receives a vision of Lee instructing him to investigate the circumstances of master's death. Stone soon finds that Lee was the victim of foul play, and quickly puts into action his plan for bringing the murderers to justice.
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Bruce Lee: A Dragon Story
Title: Bruce Lee: A Dragon Story
Character: Bruce Lee
Released: January 1, 1974
Type: Movie
Considered the first biopic of the legendary Bruce Lee, fact blurs with fiction in this low-budget, loose interpretation of the great martial arts expert's life starring Bruce Li, the most well known Lee impersonator. The film takes a look at Bruce's humble beginnings as a paperboy to his rise in fame as a martial arts phenom, who later gets tangled up in a love affair with actress Betty Ting-Pei.
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Rikisha Kuri
Title: Rikisha Kuri
Character: Ah Chang
Released: January 1, 1974
Type: Movie
Chiang is a humble, law-abiding man who drives his rickshaw, making a meager yet honest living. Then trouble comes forward in the form of money, women and crime. He reacts in the only way he knows how. Chiang is a kung fu expert who explodes when pushed too far! Nothing fancy about his technique. He bashes and smashes all who stand in front of him. See Chiang rip an army of gangsters to pieces in the roughest kung fu action ever!
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Hero of Kwantung
Title: Hero of Kwantung
Character: Member of Luk's family
Released: January 1, 1974
Type: Movie
Master Wan (Miao Tien) tries to bully some poor villagers into selling their land to him so he can mine the land for gold. Luckily for the villagers, they have a hero named Luk Ho Yen (Wen Chiang Long), who is able and willing to fight Master Wan and his lackeys.
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Iron Man
Title: Iron Man
Character: Bad Master
Released: October 9, 1973
Type: Movie
During the Japanese occupation, Little Tiger, an honest cook in Shanghai, takes exception of two Chinese that pass from insult to sexual harassment against a beautiful and modest girl servant. During the fight, the pair of molesters receive help from a number of colleagues from the same martial arts school - who are in support of the Japanese - while Little Tiger is helped by young men from his own school. A major fight develops, and the cook accidentally kills one of the thugs. The Police comes to arrest Little Tiger and to close down his school, but they resist and the cook escapes. Little Tiger is now a fugitive, living in disguise. When a duel between the two rival schools is arranged in an open-air site, Little Tiger is watching disguised as an old man, but he can't resist. He takes off his false beard, declares his name, and demands to join in the competition - beating up all competitors.
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Gecko Kung Fu
Title: Gecko Kung Fu
Released: February 26, 1972
Type: Movie
Set during China in the 1930's a young Chinese martial artist and Japanese resistance fighter strikes up a friendship with the daughter of a Japanese General leading to lots of intrigue and conflict
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Duel in the Tiger Den
Title: Duel in the Tiger Den
Character: Japanese Boss
Released: January 1, 1972
Type: Movie
A man and a woman meet when guards from White Wolf Hill attack them. Little do they know that they are both on a quest looking for the very thing the guards are protecting: the King's Seal.
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Triangular Duel
Title: Triangular Duel
Character: [Extra]
Released: January 1, 1972
Type: Movie
Kon Loong, a rickshaw boy, learns kung-fu from master Auyang Tin-Kin, for three years of practice. Kon Loong is recognized as the best among all the students. One day, when the master is out for a journey, another fighting association sends a challenge to the school, and Kon Loong accepts it. He goes with four other brothers, but they are badly defeated by their opponents, who hired the help of a Japanese karate fighter. When the master returns, he will have to save the school's honour, in a duel against the two other schools.
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The Death Duel
Title: The Death Duel
Character: [Extra]
Released: January 1, 1972
Type: Movie
The Death Duel is a Taiwan Martial Arts movie