However, his temper and quick fists got him in trouble with the Hong Kong police on numerous occasions. The talented and athletic Bruce also took up cha-cha dancing and, at age 18, won a major dance championship in Hong Kong. This was the only formalized martial arts training ever undertaken by Lee. Bruce was later beaten up by a street gang, which inspired him to take up martial arts training under the tutelage of Sifu Yip Man who schooled Bruce in wing chun kung fu for a period of approximately five years. At the age of 12, Bruce commenced attending La Salle College. Approximately one year later, the family returned to Kowloon in Hong Kong and at the age of five, a young Bruce begins appearing in children's roles in minor films including The Birth of Mankind (1946) and Fu gui fu yun (1948). Lee was born Lee Jun Fan Novemin San Francisco, the son of Lee Hoi Chuen, a singer with the Cantonese Opera. and they all have their roots in the phenomenon that was Bruce Lee. The influence of East Asian martial arts cinema can be seen today in so many other film genres including comedies, action, drama, science fiction, horror and animation. North American and European cinema and audiences the way it has over the past four decades. Movies in the early 1970s, it's arguable whether or not the martial arts film genre would have ever penetrated and influenced mainstream Bruce Lee remains the greatest icon of martial arts cinema and a key figure of modern popular media.
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