YMMV / Bruce Lee Fights Back from the Grave

• Accidental Innuendo: When Welby finds Susan at the racetrack, he asks her "Now, you do want me, don't you?" and tells her to give him everything she's got. Between the awkward phrasing and Susan's Jaw Drop reaction, it comes across less like Welby's trying to intimidate her into handing over the drugs that Go Hok Han stole, and more like he thinks she's a prostitute.
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: The start of the scene where Susan gets accosted by a stalker spends about five seconds showing a still photograph of actress Deborah Dutch in-costume. It was likely taken as a continuity photo, but how and why it got spliced into the actual film is anyone's guess.
• Fight Scene Failure: The fight between Wong Han and Sasaki is vaguely competent — likely due to Jun Chong and Sho Kosugi both being experienced martial artists — if a little awkwardly shot and edited, but most of the other fights in the film are seriously inept, with most of the punches and kicks very conspicuously failing to connect.
• Narm:
  • The scene where Welby is shot dead by the cowboy drug smuggler is intended as a dramatic Shoot the Hostage moment, but the fact that the cowboy fires off a whopping ten shots ends up such an example of absurd overkill that it reduces the scene to hilarity. On top of that, Welby conspicuously has only three exit wounds when he falls to the ground, implying that the cowboy has such a terrible aim that most of his shots missed.
  • For an encore, the subsequent scene where Wong Han and Susan disarm the cowboy, and then he and Wong Han try to grab the rifle ends up looking like something out of a Benny Hill sketch, as Wong Han and the cowboy collide just as they reach the rifle and go comically crashing to the ground. It also doesn't help that all the footsteps in the scene are dubbed with what is clearly the sound of someone walking on a wooden floor, despite the scene being set outdoors in the desert.
• Padding: The scene where Susan is accosted by a would-be rapist has absolutely nothing to do with the rest of the plot, other than it providing an excuse for Wong Han to re-encounter Susan and beat the guy up. The scene had a little more context in America Bangmungaeg, where the guy was Susan's stalker ex-boyfriend, helping to explain why he randomly shows up in the back of Susan's car.
• Retroactive Recognition: The film is one of the first acting roles of Sho Kosugi, who would go on to appear in a number of cult films in the decades ahead.

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