Streaming Sleepers: Bloody Knuckles Lace The Growing Pains Of Yoo Ha’s ONCE UPON A TIME IN HIGH SCHOOL: THE SPIRIT OF JEET KUNE DO
Indeed one of Korean cinema’s best contributions to coming-of-age dramas has to be writer and director Yu Ha’s third feature directorial outing, Once Upon A Time In High School: The Spirit Of Jeet Kune Do starring Kwon Sang-woo who made his debut opposite Jang Hyuk in Volcano High (2001). The movie is a story of boyhood, bloody knuckles and Bruce Lee worship set in the 70s and I first learned about this film back many years ago when I was a HKFlix customer. In recent years I was able to check out on streaming via free ad-support platform Tubi, which tends to circulate its titles for a limited time, so these titles rather annoyingly tend to come and go. I wrote my analysis back in 2019 to celebrate the release of another action film on Netflix in a group piece. Alas, with Kwon set for a sequel stint this year […]