Game of Death - Definition

Game of Death (《死亡遊戲》) was the film which was half-shot by Bruce Lee at the time of his death. Around forty minutes of footage was shot before his death, some of which was later lost and has not yet been recovered. The remaining footage has been released with Bruce Lee's original English dubbing as part of the documentary entitled Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey.

After the death of Bruce Lee, Enter The Dragon director Robert Clouse was enlisted to direct additional scenes featuring a stand-in which, when pieced together with the original footage as well as other footage from earlier in Bruce Lee's career, would form a new film (also entitled Game of Death) which was released in 1978, five years after his death.

Bruce Lee fans generally disown the 1978 version as cashing in on Bruce Lee's image.

In what is left of the original footage, Bruce Lee's character fights his way through three stories of a five-level pagoda (the first and second floors were either not filmed before his death or lost later), encountering a different martial artist, each representing a different style, on each floor. On the final floor, Bruce Lee encounters his greatest challenge in Kareem Abdul-Jabbar representing Bruce Lee's Jeet Kune Do, a form of Martial Arts which draws on all others, insisting that there is no correct response to any situation, that true advantage is gained from being unpredictable.