The genesis of Enter the Dragon began with producer Fred Weintraub who thought Hollywood could make a good martial arts film. It turns out that the smugglers' boss is hosting a martial arts contest which allows Lee and two partners to visit the island as contenders in the championship. The smugglers' island is heavily guarded which prevents Lee from easily gaining access until a police agency recruits him for a secret mission there.

Putting an espionage twist on the familiar revenge theme, Enter the Dragon features Lee as a martial arts expert whose sister was killed by drug smugglers. Enter the Dragon was a huge hit but sadly Lee didn't live to see this, dying just a few weeks before the premiere. And, of course, the fight scenes are mesmerizing and unlike anything previously seen in American films. By Hollywood standards, the film was a B-movie, yet every aspect of it from the acting to the direction was way above average for an action thriller. In fact, it's often called one of the greatest martial arts films ever made and one reason is because people who aren't martial arts fans also enjoy it. The original version was about an overweight, Bruce Lee-obsessed farmer fighting a band of goons to help his family.Rather than being just a weak imitation of the crowd-pleasing films Bruce Lee made in China, Enter the Dragon (1973) - his first mainstream American film - captures all the excitement of his previous Hong Kong hits. Yen has explained that his version, which is directed by Kenji Tanigaki, isn't actually a remake, but just shares the same title. Three years ago, word came out that Yen would be starring in a remake of Enter the Fat Dragon, which was originally a 1978 movie directed by and starring Sammo Hung that parodied Bruce Lee's 1972 movie Way of the Dragon and the 'Bruceploitation' movies that came out in the wake of Lee's superstardom. In 2015, he starred in a commercial which featured him in essentially the same makeup job: I'll let others debate whether or not it's acceptable for performers to wear fat suits in the year 2020, but this actually isn't the first time Yen has done this.

After a desperate request from an old colleague, Zhu teams up with a wily, wok-wielding restaurateur to solve a mysterious murder-and take his one last shot at regaining both his job and his fiancée. Enter the Fat Dragon is a hilarious chronicle of the events that transformed super-fit super-cop Fallon Zhu (martial arts phenom Donnie Yen) into a glorified records clerk with a major snack cake habit.

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