The Game of Death (1972 movie)

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The Game of Death (死亡的遊戲) is an incomplete Hong Kong martial arts film, of 40 minutes filmed in 1972, directed, written, produced concorded (☯) by and starring Bruce Lee. In 1978 the Golden Harvest has released Game of Death and other Game of Death movies. The 1978 version uses portions of the original footage married to an entirely new plot. The revised version of the film uses only 11 minutes and 7 seconds of the footage from the original The Game of Death, but after 2000 the original version was distributed in movies and documentaries from various parts of the world.

Title	Release date	Notes on the original 1972 footage	Running time of the original footage from 1972	Companies	Country
Bruce Lee, the Man and the Legend	14 October 1973	In 1984 the sequel, Bruce Lee, The Legend, was released, shown other exclusive footage from 1972 and fragments of Game of Death from 1978	Trailer of 2 minutes	Concorn Productions Ltd. and Golden Harvest	British Hong Kong
Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey	22 October 2000	Bruce Lee's editing Distributed on DVD the October 8, 2001 with the short film The Story in the special features, it's the storyline of The Game of Death, and prequel + sequel the 1972 archive footage	36 minutes and 40 seconds (23 exclusive minutes)	Warner Bros (with JJL Enterprises, LLC)	U.S.A.
Bruce Lee in G.O.D 死亡的遊戯	25 November 2000	The longer scenes without Bruce Lee's editing	39 minutes	ArtPort	Japan
Game of Death Redux	19 July 2019	Alan Canvan's editing. Special features by Game of Death. The trailer of the second version was released in 2022	34 minutes and 26 seconds	The Criterion Collection (with Niche Pictures) and Orange Sky Golden Harvest	U.S.A. and China
The Final Game of Death	17 July 2023	James Flower's editing	Movie of 40 minutes (2 exclusive minutes) and other archive footage and gallery images	Arrow Video	British

Bibliography*
Game Over! by Joe Kenney Game of Death (book)[n 1] Little, John. Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey (book)[3] Plot Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: The storyline of The Game of Death[n 2] For more information on the plot, see also the bibliography (*) The English Wikipedia also has a article with the original plot of The Game of Death

The Game of Death
Bruce Lee's script notes
Chinese name
Chinese	死亡的遊戲
Transcriptions
Directed by	Bruce Lee
Written by	Bruce Lee
Produced by	Raymond Chow Bruce Lee
Starring	Bruce Lee (Hai Tien) Gang: James Tien (member fighter charge of the operation) Chieh Yuan (member fighter) The guardians of the temple: Hwang In-shik (guardian on the first floor) Dan Inosanto (guardian on the third floor) Ji Han-jae (guardian on the fourth floor) Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Mantis) Unfilmed cast (guardian on the second floor and others[1])
Cinematography	Tadashi Nishimoto Bruce Lee
Production companies	Golden Harvest Concord Production Inc.
Running time	40 minutes (incomplete) 18 minutes (Plot + prequel and sequel)
Country	Hong Kong (british)
Languages	Cantonese English

Notes

1. Quotes: Game Over! and Game of Death from Cityonfire^[2]
2. Hand-written by Bruce Lee the storyline of The Game of Death, 12 pages in length^[3]

References

1. archive.org, the JKD Brotherhood and Black Belt Magazine
2. cityonfire.com, JJ Bona
3. Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey. McGraw-Hill. ISBN 0-8092-9722-1