The next Bruce Lee? Video of a 5-year-old recreating Lee fight scene goes viral

ABOVE: Watch a five-year-old mirror Bruce Lee’s moves – impeccably. Allison Vuchnich reports.

Wearing his yellow-and-black tracksuit, Japanese martial artist Ryusei’s recreation of Bruce Lee’s moves from the 1978 movie, Game of Death is a viral hit.

With Lee’s film, Game of Death, playing on a video screen behind the five-year-old, Ryusei completes the fight scene with accuracy, dexterity and speed as well as sound effects. His moves so impressive the video has been viewed millions of times, and some are calling him “Bruce Lee reborn.”

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His father filmed the video in Japan and posted it online. Ryusei has had followers in Japan but now the pint-sized martial artist is impressing viewers around the world.

Lee died during the filming of Game of Death in 1973. The film was finished with help of extras and using other footage and released years later in 1978.