Bruce Lee plays Billy Lo, a successful movie star, who is shot for refusing to join an international management syndicate. He fakes his own death as an opportunity to pursue the gang in secret. Although the death of Lee inevitably affected the final production of the film, it still contains some of the most unforgettable sequences in the history of cinema. Lee combats different masters of martial arts on each floor as he climbs his way to the top of a pagoda climaxing with a unique nunchaku battle.