 In the UK, the film was passed X by the BBFC with cuts for the cinema  release in 1973. 5 cuts were made to violence including the removal of the  broken bottle attack at the end of the Lee/Oharra fight. In 1979, the film  was recalled so that a sequence in which Bruce Lee twirls and uses nunchaku  could be deleted, along with another sequence in which nunchaku were seen  being carried. In 1988 the video version was passed 18 with 1 minute 45  seconds cut. Three of the five violence cuts made in 1973 were waived but two  were maintained (the first cut is to an offscreen neckbreak 