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Black Belt

Original title: 黒帯

Real Fight, Real Karate, Real Japan.

2007 · 1h 35m

Directed by Shunichi Nagasaki

6.8

TMDB audience score
67 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

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.

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Cast

  • Akihito Yagi
    Giryu

  • Tatsuya Naka
    Taiken

  • Yū Kamio
    Choei

  • Arashi Fukasawa
    Kenta

  • Hakuryu
    Police Captain Kiichi Tanihara

  • Takayasu Komiya
    Ohmoji

  • Yōsuke Natsuki
    Eiken Shibahara

  • Shin'ya Ohwada
    Gouda Hidehisa

  • Kenji Anan

  • Atsuko Nakamura

  • Tatsuya Mori

  • Atsushi Hida

  • Fuyuhiko Nishi