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3 unusual facts about Big Boss


Big Boss

The Big Boss, 1971 Hong Kong martial arts-action film starring Bruce Lee

Big Boss' Festival

It takes place in June in Tavannes (Switzerland), there are concerts Friday and Saturday nights and a worship meeting the Sunday.

Dolly Bindra

Dolly Bindra was known for creating scenes in Big Boss reality show where she was a contestant, and Dolly was the cause of many fights in the show.


Cathay Organisation

Cathay distributed Golden Harvest films and when Jurong Drive-In screened Bruce Lee’s Big Boss, the line-up of cars was so long that many got out and walked.


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Maria Yi

Yi married a wealthy businessman in June 1974 (one of the guests at her wedding was Big Boss and Fist of Fury co-star Nora Miao).

Météo+

A slightly rebellious but amiable young man in his first job out of college, he is always seen wearing his trademark Kangol cap and refers to most of his colleagues by nicknames such as Big Boss (Ted), Big Bern (Bernard), Beemer (BM) or Billie the Kid (Billie Jean).

Snake's Revenge

Whereas the game reveals the main villain to be Big Boss, who betrayed Snake in the first Metal Gear, the instruction manual identifies the villain as "Higharolla Kockamamie" (a play on Ayatollah Khomeini), an Eastern despot who obtained the plans for his "Ultra-Sheik Nuclear Attack Tank" (the manual's name for Metal Gear) from Vermon CaTaffy (a play on Muammar Gaddafi, the supposed villain from the original Metal Gear).

Sniper Wolf

Extremely grateful, she thought of Big Boss as a modern Saladin and followed him in whatever he did, until his mutiny and later death at the hands of FOXHOUND operative Solid Snake (depicted in Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake).

The Big Boss

Both of these films feature their respective actors, Bruce Li and Jason Scott Lee, at one point acting as Lee on the set of The Big Boss.