As Hong Kong martial arts movies made it across the Pacific to Hollywood and collided head-on with the then zeitgeist of Blaxploitation, there was only one man that could carry it off and by dying within days of it's release, became his generation's James Dean into the bargain... Enter The Dragon, enter Bruce Lee. Often credited as sparking the west's "Kung Fu Kraze", Lee's performance certainly became the touch stone for all that followed and took on his mantel in martial arts cinema.