The missing James Bond movie?

[TheLazenby]

For years, I've heard a rumor that in the Eighties, a Chinese film company made a movie called "The Green Jade Mah-jongg" (or "The Green Jade Buddha", depending on the source) which starred an American businessman as James Bond. One site even claimed that Entertainment Tonight did a segment about this film around the time it was made.

But I can't find ANYTHING about this movie, and no one seems to have ever seen a copy of it anywhere. It's not even in IMDB. (There is a movie in there called "The Green Jade Dragon" or something, but it's certainly unrelated to this one.)

So does this mystery 007 movie actually exist, or is it a fabrication??

[TheLazenby]

The mystery deepens - this article even mentions that a guy named Ron Cohen played James Bond...

http://thespyreport.livejournal.com/2007/03/01/

[Troberg]

The closest I can find in "the usual places" is a movie from 1977 named 'The Green Jade Statuette', but it looks like a standard martial arts movie.

[TheLazenby]

That's the one I meant. I've looked into that, and no, it's not the Bond movie.

[Yongary]

I wonder whether the segment was part of an April Fool's show.

Of course, that's not to say that fake Bonds haven't been made in Asia:

JAMES BATMAN: http://www.mjsimpson.co.uk/reviews/jamesbatman.html

A whole bunch of Indian Bonds: http://poptique.blogspot.com/2006/11...ikes-part.html

[TheLazenby]

Nah, someone verified in an instant message that it is in fact real, and that the actual title of the movie was "The Mahjong Incident."

Despite what I thought, it's NOT a James Bond movie - James Bond has a brief cameo, though.