For Fans of Bruce Lee

Made in 1973 with a Warner Bros. budget and shot entirely in Hong Kong, Enter the Dragon is the rare crossover film that did not dilute its source. Lee plays a man of precise loyalties operating inside a villain's private island tournament, and the movie never once winks at the audience. The final hall-of-mirrors sequence is a legitimate set piece, not a gimmick. Forty years of action cinema has not made it feel smaller.

Based on a concept Lee developed in the early 1970s, Warrior arrived on Cinemax in 2019, decades after the network passed on the original pitch and (as the story goes) repackaged the idea without him. The series is set in San Francisco's Chinatown in the 1870s and takes the tong wars seriously as history and drama. The fight choreography is extraordinary, but what sets it apart is its refusal to make the Chinese characters background texture for a white protagonist's journey.

Most fighting games give you a roster and a move list. Sifu gives you a single character who ages every time he dies, and a combat system that demands you read your opponents rather than memorize combos. The Pak Mei kung fu underpinning its animation is drawn from real lineage. Playing it well feels less like button execution and more like the state Lee described when he talked about being like water: not imposing a shape, finding the shape the moment requires.