Speaking of Bruce Lee, the first reaction in everyone's mind is that he is a great martial arts master. He carried forward the Chinese martial arts culture to the United States, so that Americans re-understand China and realize the charm of Chinese culture.
Before Bruce Lee's death, many people who admired his martial arts came to learn martial arts. He formed deep friendships with many of his disciples, both as their mentors and their friends. Such a charismatic martial arts master died suddenly in 1973, although the cause of his death is still controversial, and he died suddenly in his lover's home, which brought some bad reputation to Bruce Lee, who was already married and had children, but this did not affect its international martial arts status.
At Bruce Lee's funeral, 6 people who were close to him came to help him, including his apprentices and internationally renowned superstars. Let's go to detail the identities of these 6 people.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="30" > Bruce Lee's apprentice</h1>
Speaking of Bruce Lee's apprentices, there are many famous ones, including Takeyuki Kimura and Iru Yamato, who also took on the task of helping him help him after his death. Takeyuki Kimura was the most loyal disciple of Bruce Lee, although he was a Japanese, and because of the Japanese invasion of China at that time, Bruce Lee initially had some national prejudices against this Japanese apprentice, and he did not intend to take Takeshi Kimura as an apprentice.
Takeyuki Kimura admired Bruce Lee and did not mind his prejudices and embarrassments about himself. When Bruce Lee first arrived in the United States, he had no money on him, and he couldn't afford to pay for housing and food. In order to support Bruce Lee's martial arts business, Kimura sold his famous restaurant in Japan and raised funds for Bruce Lee to open a martial arts museum.
Takeyuki Kimura went to visit Bruce Lee as a teacher, and he was really impressed by his martial arts and personality charm. He did not think that Bruce Lee as a person could bring him fame and fortune, so Bruce Lee was a little prejudiced against this Japanese at the beginning, and later proved his mentality in some of his various tests, and he successfully accepted him as an apprentice.
Takeyuki Kimura's loyalty to Bruce Lee continued with him throughout his life, and in addition to supporting him during his lifetime and giving him a funeral after his death, he would visit his grave every year until his death.
Takeyuki Kimura also taught Bruce Lee's daughter martial arts. In his later years, Takeyuki Kimura was poor and had no cause to support, but he also did not use Bruce Lee's name to seek the source of his life. Finally passed away in January 2021, which is really sad.
Another of Bruce Lee's most famous apprentices was Ilusando, who, in contrast to the loyal Takeyuki Kimura, inherited Bruce Lee's martial arts features and was the master of Bruce Lee's daughter. In addition to learning from Bruce Lee about his unique martial arts, he was also trying to perfect the martial arts of his sect, especially Bruce Lee's boxing system. So while Bruce Lee taught him martial arts, he also taught Bruce Lee the Filipino boxing and Filipino sticks he had learned.
Iru Shandu will also regularly exchange martial arts theories with Bruce Lee, so that Bruce Lee can understand more about martial arts and better create his boxing theory system. After Bruce Lee's death, IruShandu sorted out his relevant notes and doctrines, and popularized Bruce Lee's martial connotations.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="29" > second, Bruce Lee master</h1>
In addition to practicing his own kung fu kung fu diligently, Bruce Lee was also constantly absorbing the kung fu techniques that accommodated other martial arts masters, so that he could absorb the essence of other families in the refinement of the kung fu technique and better integrate into his own martial arts. Therefore, he worshiped many martial arts masters as his teachers, the most famous of which was the Korean Lee Joon-joo, who was classified as one of Bruce Lee's 10 famous teachers.
Lee Joon-joo did not learn martial arts, but traditional Korean kung fu taekwondo, and he was also the father of taekwondo in the United States. Bruce Lee met him when he was studying in the United States, and he had some troubles with martial arts kicking, so he humbly consulted with him.
Lee Joon-joo did not hide his secrets, and patiently explained to Bruce Lee some taekwondo kicking and leg-lifting techniques, which benefited Bruce Lee a lot. For the sake of gratitude and friendship, Bruce Lee also taught him Chinese boxing, and the two became each other's masters.
In their free time, the two would sit together and discuss with each other that the similarities and differences in Chinese and Korean martial arts played an important role in perfecting the theory of boxing that he had created. The friendship between the two is very deep, and they will naturally greet each other every New Year's Festival.
For bruce Lee's unexpected death, Lee Junjiu also showed great sadness because he had lost a close friend. When Bruce Lee died, Li Junjiu also took on the burden of taking care of his family and provided a lot of financial support to his family.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="28" > third, famous actors</h1>
Because bruce Lee was so popular in Hollywood, a group of famous actors also became friends with him. At Bruce Lee's funeral, the famous actor James Cobain appeared in front of everyone, he acted in a series of classic film and television works such as "Spy Dragon" and "Suffering", and won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor with his superb acting skills.
Cobain also had a keen interest in Bruce Lee's martial arts, making friends with Bruce Lee and wanting to learn about him about boxing, so he often visited Bruce Lee's martial arts academy in his spare time. Bruce Lee had a good relationship with him, and the two were planning to go to India to work on a movie together, but bruce Lee did not fulfill this promise, and his sudden death made Cobain feel great pain.
There is also an actor who is also saddened by the death of Bruce Lee, and that is the famous Hollywood action superstar Steve McQueen in the United States. He is a famous tough guy actor in the history of Hollywood cinema, and he lived in the slums and worked as a beggar before he became an actor.
Because of these experiences, he has a strong personality, can endure hardships during filming, and stages some difficult actions on the screen. In addition to admiring Bruce Lee's talent, he also admired Bruce Lee's qualities, and the two had a deep friendship because of similarities in personalities and experiences.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="24" > Summary:</h1>
Bruce Lee was a proud and righteous man, a martial artist, and treated everyone wholeheartedly, winning everyone's respect and friendship. His unexpected death also caused great suffering to friends and apprentices.
In fact, there was another figure at the funeral called Peter Qin, who should be regarded as the most mysterious person in his spirit, because what is his relationship with Bruce Lee, Bruce Lee has never mentioned it before his death, nor has he seen him meet in public from Bruce Lee. However, when he was helping the spirit, he actually stood in the first place, which showed that the relationship with Bruce Lee was extraordinary.