Si wang ta (1981)

User Rating:

4.9/10   

Director:

See-Yuen Ng

Release Date:

21 March 1981 (Hong Kong)

Genre:

Action | Mystery

Tagline:

Carrying on the legend.

Plot:

Billy Lo, famed martial arts star is murdered. His brother, Bobby goes to Korea, and in an underground...

Plot Keywords:

Brother | Underground | Martial Arts | Korea | Revenge

Cast

Bruce Lee	...	Billy Lo / Lee Chen-Chiang
Tai Chung Kim	...	Bobby Lo / Lee Chen-Kuo (as Tong Lung)
Jang Lee Hwang	...	Chin Ku
Roy Horan	...	Lewis
Roy Chiao	...	Abbot
Casanova Wong	...	Korean Fighter
Hoi San Lee	...	Monk Fighter
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Miranda Austin	...	Angel
Han-yuan Ma
Graham Ravey	...	Unnamed guy who gets beaten up
Dan Schwarz

Also Known As:

Game of Death 2 (Australia)
Game of Death II (USA)
Sei miu taap (Hong Kong: Cantonese title)
The New Game of Death (USA)
Tower of Death

MPAA:

Rated R for some violence and nudity.

Runtime:

Hong Kong:86 min

Country:

Hong Kong

Language:

Cantonese

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Australia:M | Iceland:16 | Singapore:M18 | UK:18 | Finland:K-16 (cut: 1994) | Finland:K-18 (DVD rating) | Norway:18 (video premiere) | USA:R | Hong Kong:IIA | Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Canada:R (Ontario) | Germany:BPjM Restricted

Filming Locations:

Hong Kong, China

Company:

Seasonal Film Corporation

Trivia:

Both the English dubbed and original Chinese versions (not the version on the Hong Kong Universe DVD) feature music scores from other films. The English dubbed versions feature a large number of Denny Zeitlin's music cues from the 1978 version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, while the original Chinese versions features a large number of Les Baxter's music cues from The Dunwich Horror.

Goofs:

Crew or equipment visible: When Lewis delivers the final kick to the face of the second of the Wu/Yen brothers, a wire harness for the stuntman can clearly be seen sticking out from the arms of his vest.

Quotes:

Tower Of Death guard: Hey! Who are you?
Bobby Lo: Me? Jack the Ripper.

Movie Connections:

Follows Game of Death (1978)

Soundtrack:

Dancer

A truly surreal piece of classic exploitation...

A truly surreal piece of classic exploitation that's just so insane you feel you have to love it, a slice ‘n' dice treatment made on real Lee footage jumbled together to create yet another new `Bruce Lee movie', much in the same vein as its non-related predecessor, however this one's a lot more fun. Bruce Lee returns, so they say, as Billy Lo, eager to discover the reasoning behind his master's sudden death, which sure enough leads to his own end. Enter Billy's brother Bobby (Kim Tai Chong, or rather Lee-alike ‘Tong Lung') and the second half of this crazy charade begins, with Bobby continuing the investigations into both the deaths. When the Lee footage runs out (by ludicrously killing off the character halfway using the classic ‘fall from the under carriage of a moving helicopter' trick), the movie is left to Kim who in actual fact does quite well with it, given the circumstance: events consist of visiting the palace of crazy fighter Horan, battling a man in a tarzan outfit in some underground sci-fi laboratory, before beautifully laying waste to a random monk (Lee Hoi San) and Hwang Jang Lee. It's complete madness, but like a cute family puppy it's just too difficult to put down. A shameful exercise that's just unashamedly entertaining.