Black Belt

Name: Black Belt
Director: Shunichi Nagasaki
Released: 2007-10-13
Duration: 95 min
Rating: 6.746
Cast: Akihito Yagi, Tatsuya Naka, Yū Kamio, Arashi Fukasawa, Hakuryu

6.7

October 13, 2007

1h 35m

Action Drama

"Real Fight, Real Karate, Real Japan."

Overview

Set in 1932, amid the rise of militarism after the establishment of the Manchukuo colony in Northeast China, the story centers on a trio of karateka. Studying under their aging master in a small dojo in the woods of central Kyushu, Choei, Taikan and Giryu face a company of kempeitai military police come to requisition their dojo for use as a military base.