Bruce Lee movie Game of Death remembered in exhibition of photos, film clips in Hong Kong
- Rarely seen footage Lee shot for Game of Death, and stills from it, are on display in a show 51 years after the martial arts actor’s death
Despite never being completed, Game of Death is remembered as one of Bruce Lee’s most iconic films.
Lee wrote, directed, produced and starred in the martial arts film, which was left unfinished when he died in Hong Kong unexpectedly on July 20, 1973, from a fluid build-up in the brain.
The storyline of Game of Death had Lee’s character ascending a tower and defeating new enemies on each floor, and has since inspired action-film and video-game makers, while Lee’s signature black and yellow jumpsuit has become a pop-culture icon.
Fifty-one years after Lee’s death, Hong Kong company Art Prince Advisory and Japan’s Fujifilm are presenting Bruce Lee: Unseen Photographs, an exhibition of stills and clips taken from the original footage Lee shot for The Game of Death, most of which never made it into the version shown in cinemas in 1978.
Visitors to the exhibition in Hong Kong’s Causeway Bay neighbourhood are greeted as they enter by a replica of Bruce Lee’s red Mercedes-Benz 350 SL convertible, which featured in the final scene of his 1972 film The Way of the Dragon.
