When a man forms a small movie production company, he doesn't plan on being foiled by the owners of several major studios, who have devised what they believe is an ingenious method of taking him out of the picture. Their plan goes wildly askew, however, when the drug they had intended to use as an aphrodisiac turns out deadly.


The True Game of Death is a very low budget 1981 Bruceploitation film, starring a clone of Bruce Lee credited as Bruce Lee Hsao Lung. The film borrows heavily from Golden Harvest's 1979 Game of Death. The song sung by the nightclub singer can also be heard in Bruce Lee: A Dragon Story



Very few people have anything nice to say about this film, which is seen as a bottom-of-the-barrel item even by Bruceploitation standards. Says 'Keith' of the website Bruceploitation:
"The running time for this movie is 83 mintues [sic] and that's about 821⁄2 mintues too long. This movie is boorrriinnng...Alright [sic] I wasted enough time watching the movie, I'm not gonna waste anymore [sic] time writing about it."[1]
Another dreadful review comes from John Wallis of DVDTalk.com, who awarded the film a rare zero stars out of five:
"Not only is a bad film for its horrible story, and lack of any action worth noting, it tramples Bruce's name like no other, inserting stock footage of his press conferences, his funeral, newspapers reporting his death, and using Bruce film clips (under a horrible saturated, polarized color effect) as signs that the Bruce-clone daydreams and is inhabited by the spirit of the real Bruce. Unless you are the most die-hard of Bruceploitation fans/completists, its really not worth a second of your life