Blu-ray
Game of death
Call Number
- BLU-RAY ACTION (CEN)
Edition
Blu-ray special edition.
Languages
English or Japanese-release English-dub, with English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.
Performers
Bruce Lee, Gig Young, Dean Jagger, Colleen Camp, Hugh O'Brian, Mel Novak, Roy Chiao, Robert Wall, Dan Inosanto, Chuck Norris, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
Publication Information
[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2020]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (101 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Audience
MPAA rating: R.
Uniform Title
Summary
"In the early 1970s, a kung-fu dynamo named Bruce Lee side-kicked his way onto the screen and straight into pop-culture immortality. With his magnetic screen presence, tightly coiled intensity, and superhuman martial-arts prowess, Lee was an icon who conquered both Hong Kong and Hollywood cinema, and transformed the art of the action film in the process. This collection brings together the five films that define the Lee legend: furiously exciting fist-fliers propelled by his innovative choreography, unique martial-arts philosophy, and whirlwind fighting style. Though he completed only a handful of films while at the peak of his stardom before his untimely death at age thirty-two, Lee left behind a monumental legacy as both a consummate entertainer and a supremely disciplined artist who made Hong Kong action cinema a sensation the world over."--Container.
"Released five years after Bruce Lee's death, this eccentrically entertaining kung-fu curio combines footage from an unfinished project directed by and starring Lee with original material shot by Enter the Dragon director Robert Clouse to create an entirely new work that testifies to the actor's enduring place in the pop-culture imagination. Using stand-ins, doubles, and archival footage to compensate for Lee's absence, Game of Death follows a martial-arts movie star who, when he is threatened by a cutthroat crime syndicate intent on controlling his career, must take his skills from the soundstage to the streets. It all builds to an exhilarating climax that is pure Lee: a tour de force of martial-arts mastery in which the legend himself, clad in an iconic yellow jumpsuit, fights his way up a multilevel pagoda, with the towering Kareem Abdul-Jabbar among his formidable opponents."--Container insert.
Notes
Originally released as a motion picture in 1978.
This disc was released as Disc 5 of the Criterion Collection box set Bruce Lee, his greatest hits.
Special features: 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack ; audio commentary by Hong Kong film expert Mike Leeder ; On Game of death ; Game of death redux, a new presentation of Lee's original Game of Death footage, produced by Alan Canvan ; alternate footage ; "Game of death" revisited ; trailers ; new English subtitle translation.