The Game of Death
Narita Airport - Japan. An international martial arts champion has won the world championships, and is about to go home. It informs that his family has been kidnapped.
This is the original script of "Game of Death." Before his death, Bruce Lee had a pretty good idea of the outline of the "Game of Death." But when he turned the fighting was very incomplete. And, aside from the fight with Karim Abdul Jabbar, the other two fights he almost passed over the head.
"Bruce was not a well-defined project," recalls Dan Inosanto. "We arrived and were working on different planes".
In the film, Bruce fight against Dan, with a double bamboo sticks at the end. The first time Bruce came, Dan broke the bamboo in half. Bruce looked at him and went to look for another. Once again, the same scene took place. Bruce then said simply: "Time to nunchakus".
Ji Han Jae, the founder of Hap Ki Do, was approached by Bruce to appear in a few shots, but his name should not appear in the credits. This was due to the fact that Master Ji saw Bruce as his pupil. He had met in 1969 through Jhoon Rhee, and had begun to show Bruce some of his techniques. Bruce himself expressed his wish them to do a film together.
By a happy combination of circonsctances, the Golden Harvest Master Ji was invited to Hong Kong to shoot with a female star of Kung Fu: Angela Mao Ying. "Bruce said he did a few scenes," recalls Master Ji. "But the fight dragged on". Bruce took great care not to offend the pride of Master Ji. So in the end, he did not kill him.
Initially, the participation of Karim Abdul Jabbar in the film was to be arch-secret. The point of shooting at night to avoid reporters. His alibi was that he auditioning actresses for a special project. The scenes that Bruce had shot before his death were later assembled by the director of "Operation Dragon", Robert Clouse, and became the "Game of Death."
