In later years the events of this film were proved to have never happened except for the fact of where Bruce Lee was when he died. Friends of Lee's as well as crew members of the films he was working on can testify that they know this affair never occurred. Betty Ting Pei has never admitted that she lied, but her accounts and events that she told have been contradicted by Bruce's filming schedule at the time of the so-called affair. In some events that she recounts, Bruce wasn't even in Hong Kong at all at the indicated times.
The first movie shown on New York's WNEW (now WNYW) Channel 5's "Drive-In Movie" program, on 2 May, 1981.
More nudity was shot and added when the film was distributed in the U.S.