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. It was directed, written and produced by Bruce Lee and Bruce Lee starred in it too. 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 + fragments of Game of Death (1978 movie)	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[n 1]in the special features.	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 (1978 movie). The trailer of the second version was released in 2022	34 minutes and 26 seconds	The Criterion Collection and Niche Pictures	U.S.A.
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

The Game of Death 死亡的遊戲
Bruce Lee's script notes
English The Game of Death
Traditional Chinese	死亡的遊戲
Simplified Chinese	死亡的遊戏
Literal meaning	Death Game
Hanyu Pinyin	sǐwáng de yóuxì
Jyutping	sei2 mong4 dik1 jau4 hei3
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. it's the plot of The Game of Death + prequel and sequel the original 1972 footage. Hand-written by Bruce Lee, the storyline of The Game of Death, is 12 pages in length^[2]. Quotations related to The storyline of The Game of Death at Wikiquote