With the financial success of Game of Death, Golden Harvest knew that there was still plenty of money to be made in the Bruce Lee name. A second film went into production that once again promoted Bruce Lee as the leading star. Although released as a sequel to Game of Death, the film has very little relation to it’s predecessor.

Director Ng See-Yuen was promised alot of unseen footage of Bruce Lee from Golden Harvest but when production began, he was only presented with a few sequences of unused footage and outakes from Enter The Dragon.

The film was pieced together using Bruce Lee’s fight double for the original Game of Death, Kim Tai-Jung, in a duel role, doubling for Bruce Lee’s character, and to also play his brother. With the lack of a substantial new footage, a decision was made to kill off Bruce Lee’s character early in the film, leaving Kim Tai-Jung to shine in his best roles.

Various edits of Tower of Death were released in other countries, including a Korean version which removed all of the Bruce Lee footage, and other versions which feature additional unseen material.

By this time, audiences had grown tired of ‘Bruceploitation’ and although the film was successful in Asia, the completed project was not what Golden Harvest producer had hoped. However, Tower of Death has gone on to became and favourite amongst fans of the genre years after it’s release.