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Dan Inosanto
- Dan Inosanto. Actor: Game of Death. Noted Filipino-American martial arts practitioner, who studied "jeet kune do" from fellow martial artist and actor Bruce Lee.
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Lee's first opponent in Game of Deathis a weapons master, played by Lee's close friend and student Dan Inosanto. Both Lee and Inosanto bring different kinds of martial arts weaponry to their battle, Inosanto at first using a pair of Kali sticks and later breaking out a pair of nunchaku, while Lee starts out with a bamboo rod, before wielding his ow...
When Lee reaches the next floor of the pagoda, his opponent is a Hakido master, played by real-life Hapkido exponent Ji Han Jae. With Korean Hapkido combining striking techniques with throws and joint manipulations, Lee's opponent has an effective way to counter Lee's attacks by throwing him across the mat repeatedly. Like the opening fight scene o...
Lee's final opponent at the top of the pagoda Hakim is played by his Jeet Kune Do student Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and the size and strength differential between the two is immense. As the biggest villain in any Bruce Lee movie, Lee cannot overpower Hakim with sheer strength, but finds ways around it, including wearing Hakim out with repeated takedowns...
After Bruce Lee's death, Inosanto became the principal spokesperson and historian for Jeet Kune Do. He has had minor roles in a number of films, including Bruce Lee's uncompleted last film Game of Death (1972).
The Raid, a 2011 Indonesian film, was influenced by Game of Death. It has a similar plot structure, set in a single main location, a grungy high-rise building, with grunts at the bottom and the big boss at the top. This Game of Death formula was also used in the film Dredd (2012) and appeared in an episode of SpongeBob SquarePants.
An accomplished weapons practitioner, he has showcased his skills in Game of Death (1978) fighting Bruce Lee, he gave detective Burt Reynolds a grisly "manicure" before being speared to death in Sharky's Machine (1981), appeared in the John Carpenter fantasy - martial arts adventure Big Trouble in Little China (1986), and clashed pool cues with ...
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Recently viewed. Game of Death: Directed by Robert Clouse, Bruce Lee. With Bruce Lee, Gig Young, Dean Jagger, Hugh O'Brian. A martial arts movie star must fake his death to find the people who are trying to kill him.
Mar 1, 2013 · Dan Inosanto Interview on the Game of Death FilmI know the sound is out of sync.
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