Hong Kong to launch Bruce Lee festival

Hong Kong will stage a week-long Bruce Lee festival featuring film showings, a fan gathering and a tour of Lee sites to celebrate the unveiling of Lee’s statue at the territory’s Avenue of Stars – Hong Kong’s equivalent of Hollywood’s Walk of Fame – on November 27.

The late Lee’s brother, Robert Lee, will preside at the official opening of the 2-metre statue, said Hong Kong-based Bruce Lee Club chairman Wong Yiu-keung.

Lee fans from around the world will hold a gathering in Hong Kong the same day, which would have been Lee’s 65th birthday, he said.

The November 25-December 1 festival, backed by the Hong Kong Tourism Board, will also include free showings of Lee’s movies at the Avenue of Stars, a tour of Lee sites like his former home and schools, and possibly a tour of Lee’s ancestral home Shunde and a memorial honouring his kung fu teacher in Foshan, both in China, Wong said.

The Lee statue features the late star, torso bared, hands spread in a fighting stance.