Accented Cinema - Episode 22 While primary known as a movie star, most people tend to focus on Bruce Lee as a martial artist. How couldn't they? Watching this man fight is absolutely mesmerizing. But let's not forget that Bruce Lee is also a filmmaker, who single handedly reinvented the Martial Arts movie in genre, first in Hong Kong, and then in the west. In this two-part retrospective, we are going to examine just exactly how Bruce Lee changed the film industry.