Has anyone seen this movie? (The Last Dragon). It was an awesome movie and I remember all the lines from it from watching it over and over again. I am glad they didnt make a 2nd movie of this cause it would kill the popularity. This came out in the mid 80's whenI was born. My grandpa used ot watch it so he gave us a tape. I am now addicted to it. I haven't seen Shonuff in any other movies, but on the webby, it says he was in Hamlet and The West Side Story. As a matter of fact, I think i'll go watch it. For those who dont know what this movie is about, I give you this --> http://www.fast-rewind.com/dragon/

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"Berry Gordy,s THE LAST DRAGON" tells the story of the deceptively gentle Leroy Green, a black youth devoted to the arts, spirit and legend of his hero, Bruce Lee, and of the two guys out there looking for him, eager physically or psychologically to demolish him.

One of them is on the streets, Sho'nuff tall and mean -- whose reason for wanting to take out Leroy is simple, if simple-minded; the other is Eddie Arkadian -- short and mean -- king of the video emporiums, who has a more bizarre motive for wanting to see Leroy wasted.

Early in THE LAST DRAGON, the Master, played brilliantly by Thomas Ikeda, rips the dragon emblem from Leroy's jacket. Shocked, Leroy assumes the worst and falls to his knees at the Master's feet. Removing the emblem was not a punishment, the Master tells him, but a celebration.

The Master has perceived that Leroy has touched the final level -- not arrived there yet, but touched it, the level beyond the dragon, beyond excellence. When he reaches the final level, the Master tells Leroy he will know it by the appearance of a sublime glow all over his body. "To reach it is not so simple. But it is now within your grasp." The Master, however, is unable to help him further.

Zen, according to Joe Hyams, the author of Zen in the Martial Arts, has no theory; it is an inner knowing for which there is no clearly stated dogma. "The point of achieving proficiency in any martial art is to be able to walk away from a fight rather than to win it," a precept that Leroy in "Berry Gordy's THE LAST DRAGON" tries desperately to follow.

The film's cast is a melting pot of ethnic types, white, black, and Chinese, including three Sum Dum Goy Chinese fortune cookie-factory youths so into "The Harlem Look" that they think they're black.