Footage from Bruce Lee’s Funeral was used in 1978’s Game of Death.

Bruce Lee was working on a number of projects at the time of his passing, including his upcoming directorial project, Game of Death. Vice reports that not much of the movie had been finished at the time of Lee's death; there were some notes and a story concept (which simply read "The big fight. There is an arrest. The fight between Lee and legendary NBA player Kareem Abdul-Jabbar has become classic. The airport. The conclusion."), and 40 minutes of video.

A movie in that circumstance would typically just be a lost cause, but Golden Harvest Productions wanted to salvage what they could, so they recruited Enter the Dragon filmmaker Robert Clouse to put something together. A Frankenstein's monster of a movie emerged as a result, made up of 11 minutes of previously filmed video by Lee, overdubbed clips from his prior works, and stand-ins to complete some sequences. Even a cardboard cutout of Bruce Lee was used by the director to finish one shot.

The film's use of actual funeral footage to create a scenario in which Lee's character pretends to die, complete with throngs of mourners, pallbearers, and close-ups of Lee's open casket, isn't even the worst example of bad taste.