Male Socialization And The Warrior Path To Enlightenment In 'Circle of Iron'

A 1978 classic film based on a Bruce Lee concept

The intergenerational transmission of accounts of real journeys is far older than written language — and the chain of transmission has always been male to male

“Bruce set the story in a land that never was and always is,” a title card informs us at the opening of the 1978 film Circle of Iron. Unfolding as a series of Zen koans, the movie is ostensibly a …