Hong Kong love hotel to become Bruce Lee memorial

By Peter Brieger, in Hong Kong for AFP Published: 10:02AM GMT twenty-five February 2010

The former chateau of Bruce Lee, the kung fu star, in Hong Kong. The chateau is at 41 Cumberland Road in the Kowloon Tong district. Photo: AFP/Mike Clark

Rooms are offering for rent by the hour, with a bonus rate of 205 Hong Kong dollars (�16) shopping affectionate couples 3 hours in a tatty room off a slight corridor flashy with a print of a topless blonde.

It is a far cry from when the construction was the home of Bruce Lee, the kung fu icon, prior to his black genocide in 1973 at the age of 32.

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"The chateau has unequivocally been altered," pronounced Shannon Lee, the actor"s daughter, who removed snickering when she schooled about the home"s love road residence standing in her mid-teens.

The right away 40-year-old Lee remembers, in vivid contrariety to the stream appearance, a Japanese-style pool out front, pets using around and copiousness of practice space for her father.

"I have unequivocally lustful memories of it - my father unequivocally valued his remoteness and there was space for him to work out and the kids to run around."

The actuality that guest travel in the footsteps of the kung fu star competence have used in to the mists of time had it not been for fans who rallied at the back of a plan to spin the road residence in to a Lee memorial.

Following a open conflict Yu Pang-lin, the hotel"s billionaire owner, concluded to terminate plans to sell the property, that he says is value 100 million Hong Kong dollars, and instead present it to honour Lee"s legacy.

Yu has pronounced the home should be renovated to embody a museum, library, a motion picture and armed forces humanities area.

Others, together with Wong Yiu-keung, the authority of the Bruce Lee Club, wish the strange construction plan recorded so visitors can suppose how it looked when the actress lived there.

"It should be a commemorative house. After all it"s his former residence," Wong said.

Lee - who was credited with moving the armed forces humanities movie genre in to the mainstream with drive-in theatre together with Fists of Fury and the posthumously expelled Enter the Dragon - died after a serious greeting to suffering medication.

His widow, right away vital in the US, has supposing a severe plans of the home"s strange blueprint to assistance replacement efforts.

"My mother is unequivocally at the back of it," Shannon Lee said.

"I"m unequivocally in foster of (the memorial). It could be good for Hong Kong and good for my father and his legacy. I think the first idea should be to safety the chateau as most as probable to the strange condition.

"The pull of this space was that it was his home," she added. "That creates it unequivocally unique."

A internal pattern competition finished last month, but the memorial"s last look, construction costs, who will compensate them and when it opens sojourn unclear.

The tourism house is anticipating the captivate can pull visitors from inside and outward the city, and progress Hong Kong"s hard-hit movie industry.

A statue of Lee sits on Hong Kong"s Avenue of Stars, but the every day South China Morning Post has described the miss of a some-more poignant commemorative to the Hong Kong-raised favourite as a "travesty".