Blade on a Stick: The aforementioned monk uses a two-sided monk spade as his preferred weapon when fighting Bobby.Beard of Evil: Come think on it, Chin Ku, with his "look I'm so sinister" 'stache (even in scenes before his true nature is revealed), is it really a surprise that he's the villain of the picture?.All Monks Know Kung-Fu: Deep in the Palace of Death's final chamber, before Bobby can face Chin Ku, he must face a monk who turns out to be one of the most fearsome fighters in the film.Too bad Bobby's main priority is avenging his sibling. In fact, when Bobby uncovers the truth behind Billy's demise and confronts Chin Ku over it, Chin Ku actually offers Bobby a chance to walk away, alive, on the grounds that Bobby is Billy's brother. Affably Evil: Despite being the film's Hidden Villain and Big Bad, the few moments featuring Chin Ku and Billy seems to imply their friendship are genuine.The movie itself has Bruce's character, Billy, dying half an hour into the film. Advertised Extra: Good luck finding a poster, DVD cover or trailer that doesn't proudly over-advertise Bruce Lee's presence in the film.Unfortunately before Billy could find out more, he's killed in the middle of attending Chin Ku's wake. In 1981, with the trend of "Bruceploitation" going on 8 years after Bruce's death, Golden Harvest managed to recover enough original footage starring Bruce from their archives to create yet another film, which would become Tower of Death - or Game of Death II in certain international releases.īilly Lo (Bruce), a former disciple of the Shaolin Temple, is investigating the untimely death of his friend, Chin Ku (Korean kickboxer expert Hwang Jang-Lee from Drunken Master) and uncovers a conspiracy to assasinate martial arts experts from all around. Despite dying before filming wrapped, Golden Harvest managed to scrape together whatever existing bits of film, combined with new footage shot with various Fake Shemp(s), and release it as Game of Death, a movie widely promoted as "Bruce Lee's final film". In 1973, the martial arts community mourned the loss of an icon with the death of Bruce Lee, who passed on during production of his fifth film.
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