Composer:
John BarryCast:
Bruce Lee, Tai Chung Kim, Biao Yuen, Gig Young, Dean Jagger, Hugh O'Brian, Mel Novak, Colleen Camp, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Robert Wall, Yuan Chieh, Dan Inosanto (more)VOD (2)
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Released five years after Bruce Lee’s death, this eccentrically entertaining kung-fu curio combines footage from an unfinished project directed by and starring Lee with original material shot by Enter the Dragon director Robert Clouse to create an entirely new work that testifies to the actor’s enduring place in the pop-culture imagination. Using stand-ins, doubles, and archival footage to compensate for Lee’s absence, Game of Death follows a martial-arts movie star who, when he is threatened by a cutthroat crime syndicate intent on controlling his career, must take his skills from the soundstage to the streets. It all builds to an exhilarating climax that is pure Lee: a tour de force of martial-arts mastery in which the legend himself, clad in an iconic yellow jumpsuit, fights his way up a multilevel pagoda, with the towering Kareem Abdul-Jabbar among his formidable opponents. (Criterion)
(more)Cast
Bruce Lee
USA
Best movies:
Too Late for Divorce (1956)
The Orphan (1960)
Golden Gate Girl (1941)
Tai Chung Kim
Korea
Best movies:
Game of Death (1978)
No Retreat, No Surrender (1986)
Game of Death II (1981)
Biao Yuen
Hong Kong
Best movies:
Lightning Kung Fu (1980)
Warriors Two (1978)
The Invincible Armour (1977)
Gig Young
USA
Best movies:
Producers' Showcase (1954) (series)
Rear Window (1954)
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969)
Dean Jagger
USA
Best movies:
The Nun's Story (1959)
The Proud Rebel (1958)
Vanishing Point (1971)
Hugh O'Brian
USA
Best movies:
White Feather (1955)
Ten Little Indians (1965)
D.O.A. (1949)
Mel Novak
USA
Best movies:
Truck Turner (1974)
Black Belt Jones (1974)
Force: Five (1981)
Colleen Camp
USA
Best movies:
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995)
The Ice Storm (1997)
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
USA
Best movies:
Airplane! (1980)
Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault (1996) (TV movie)
Forget Paris (1995)
Robert Wall
USA
Best movies:
Return of the Dragon (1972)
Enter the Dragon (1973)
Black Belt Jones (1974)
Yuan Chieh
Malaysia
Best movies:
The Invincible Armour (1977)
The Private Eyes (1976)
One-Armed Swordsman (1967)
Dan Inosanto
USA
Best movies:
Game of Death (1978)
Big Stan (2007)
Redbelt (2008)
James Tien
China
Best movies:
The Iron Fisted Monk (1977)
Above the Law (1986)
The Chinese Connection (1972)
Casanova Wong
South Korea
Best movies:
Warriors Two (1978)
The Iron Fisted Monk (1977)
The Story of Drunken Master (1979)
Han Jae Ji
Korea
Best movies:
Lady Kung Fu (1972)
Bruce Lee and I (1973)
The Dragon Tamers (1975)
Ing-Sik Whang
Korea
Best movies:
The Tournament (1974)
The Young Master (1980)
Sting of the Dragon Masters (1973)
Roy Chiao
China
Best movies:
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Above the Law (1986)
A Kid from Tibet (1992)
Mars
Hong Kong
Best movies:
The Incredible Kung Fu Master (1979)
Warriors Two (1978)
Odd Couple (1979)
Sammo Hung
China
Best movies:
Lightning Kung Fu (1980)
The Incredible Kung Fu Master (1979)
Warriors Two (1978)
Wah Yuen
Hong Kong
Best movies:
The Tournament (1974)
Clans of Intrigue (1977)
Death Duel (1977)