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Original production Īlthough the pagoda was supposed to have five floors, complete scenes were only shot for three of the floors: the "Temple of the Tiger," where Lee faced Inosanto the "Temple of the Dragon", where he fought Ji Han Jae and the final floor, where he fought Abdul-Jabbar was the "Temple of the Unknown". No surviving material explains how this will affect Hai or his captive siblings. Despite all the talk of something awaiting up top of the (now unguarded) flight of stairs, there is no mention of anyone going up to retrieve it. Immediately after defeating the giant guardian, Hai turns around and descends the staircase, heading out of the pagoda. Because Abdul-Jabbar's character has great size and strength in addition to a fighting style as potent as Lee's, he can only be defeated once Hai recognizes that an unusually high sensitivity to light is his greatest weakness.

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He defeats Filipino martial arts master Dan Inosanto, hapkido master Ji Han Jae, and finally Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who fights with a free and fluid style mirroring Lee's Jeet Kune Do. Although his allies try to help out, they are handily defeated, and Hai must face each of the martial artists in one-on-one combat. While inside the pagoda, they encounter a different opponent on each floor, each more challenging than the last.

At the base of the pagoda they fight 10 people, all black belts in Karate. The pagoda, called Palsang-jon, is the only remaining wooden pagoda in South Korea. The setting of the pagoda was at Peobjusa temple in Songnisan National Park in South Korea. Hai, as well as four other martial artists (two of which were played by James Tien and Chieh Yuan), then fight their way up a five-level pagoda, encountering a different challenge on each floor. When Hai refuses, his younger sister and brother are kidnapped, forcing him to participate. They would be the second group to try to do so as the first attempt with a previous group had failed. The gang boss wants Hai to be a part of a group whose purpose is to retrieve said item. They tell him the story of a pagoda where guns are prohibited, and under heavy guard by highly skilled martial artists who are protecting something (which is not identified at all in any surviving material) held on its top level. The original plot involves Lee playing the role of Hai Tien, a retired champion martial artist who was confronted by the Korean underworld gangs. 5.4 In manga, anime, and other cartoons.1.3 Bruce Lee in G.O.D.: Shibōteki Yūgi.At the time of his death, he had already made plans to resume the filming of The Game of Death.Īfter Lee's death, Enter the Dragon director Robert Clouse was enlisted to direct additional scenes featuring two stand-ins which, when pieced together with the original footage as well as other footage from earlier in Lee's career, would form a new film (also entitled Game of Death) which was released in 1978, five years after his death, by Golden Harvest. Lee died of cerebral edema before the film's release. Most of the footage which was shot is from what was to be the centerpiece of the film, which was to be co-produced (with Raymond Chow), written and directed by Lee.ĭuring filming, Lee received an offer to star in Enter the Dragon], the first kung fu film to be produced by a Hollywood studio ( Warner Bros.), and with a budget unprecedented for the genre ($850,000). The remaining footage has been released with Bruce Lee's original English and Cantonese dialogue, with John Little dubbing Bruce Lee's Hai Tien character as part of the documentary entitled Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey. Over 100 minutes of footage was shot prior to his death, some of which was later misplaced in the Golden Harvest archives. It was almost the film Bruce Lee had planned to be the demonstration piece of his martial art Jeet Kune Do. The Game of Death ( traditional Chinese: 死亡的遊戲 simplified Chinese: 死亡的游戏 Mandarin Pinyin: Sǐwáng dé Yóuxì Jyutping: Sei5 Mong4 Dik1 Jau4 Hei3) is a 1972 film starring Bruce Lee. *October 22, 2000 () (Incomplete DVD release) James Tien Chieh Yuan Dan Inosanto Han-Jae Ji Kareem Abdul-Jabbar