An upcoming Chinese-language drama will soon feature Bruce Lee, portrayed by South Korean actor Kim Bum. (Photo : Wikimedia)
A five-year-old boy from Japan has become the YouTube sensation overnight when his father uploaded a home video of him imitating martial arts skills from Bruce Lee's last movie, "Game of Death."
In the viral video, Ryusei, the child prodigy in nunchuks skills, can be seen performing a punch-perfect mirroring of the late master's blazingly fast moves in his living room, while Lee's final film is playing on TV behind him. The boy's moves are amazingly unbelievable for his tender age, complete with sound effects and a copy of Lee's famous yellow jumpsuit, Mirror reported.
The video is shot and uploaded on YouTube by the child's father, Bruce Ryu, on May 1 and since then it has garnered 4.28 million views and 49 thousand likes from the viewers. The online commentators have deemed the pint sized kid as the reincarnation of the legendary Hong Kong American martial artist who was undoubtedly one of the most influential martial artists of all times.
Founder of an eclectic and hybrid style fighting art, Jeek Kune Do, Lee's reign of popularity was cut short abruptly with his death at the age of 32. Autopsy report ruled the actor's sudden departure as a death by misadventure as he infamously took some pills to reduce the headache caused by cerebral edema, diagnosed a few months earlier. However, some media outlets had claimed that a substantial amount of marijuana was found in his stomach and reported that the iconic fighter's habit of eating cannabis took his life.
Ironically, the movie from which the young boy is copying the moves was still incomplete when Lee died in 1973. "Enter the Dragon" director Robert Clouse eventually finished "Game of Death" using stand-ins and the film was finally released in 1978, The Telegraph reported.
