Karate Warriors

Wandering karate master Shuhei Sakata ("Chieko" in the English-dub) stops by a port town where he meets a child named Osamu and his father Rensaku Mizuki, also a master of kenjutsu with a trained katana. Shuhei and Mizuki thought that they were not ordinary people because of each other's murderous intent, but they soon realized that it was meaningless and did not fight. Osamu gave Mizuki rice balls , and the parents and children began to eat. Shuhei, who was hungry, was envious of him, but silently sat down in a corner of the warehouse and took a rest. Then, in order not to let Mizuki go to Nishimura-gumi, 7 or 8 Higashida-gumi members appeared and attacked Mizuki. Mizuki mercilessly beats up the gang members, cuts them down and throws them away, but Osamu is taken hostage. When Shuhei sees it, he comes to the rescue and uses destructive punching and kicking techniques to defeat the rest of the gang and take Osamu back safely. As a thank you for helping, Shuhei received a rice ball. Mizuki told Osamu, "Don't rely on others," and left this place with Osamu. Shuhei, who was traveling aimlessly, was wandering around this town , but because he took an injured person involved in a conflict between yakuza in the city to the town doctor, Tachibana, the conflict between the Higashida group and the Nishimura group. I know that the townspeople are crying. Sakata, who smelled the money, jumped into the yakuza conflict over one-billion yen of drugs, but there was a fateful confrontation with Mizuki.

• Sonny Chiba
• Isao Natsuyagi
• Akiko Koyama
• Akane Kawasaki
• Hideo Murota
• Eiji Gô
• Bin Amatsu
• Nenji Kobayashi
• Yayoi Watanabe
• Tatsuo Umemiya

In Japan, this is a spin-off of the Satsujin-ken film saga, which is also the first and only film out of the eight installments in total to not feature the Street Fighter title overseas. Sonny Chiba shows a fighting style that fuses karate with kenjutsu, and a new story. Chiba plays the role of a runaway hero who encounters a conflict between rival gangs over one-billion yen of drugs, searching for the missing drug and defeating enemies who stand in his way. Isao Natsuyagi is a swordsman with a child and plays the role of a bodyguard of a gangster. Akane Kawasaki and Yayoi Watanabe play brave sisters who live in contrasting ways in a rough town , and Kawasaki even becomes nude, showing off her voluptuous breasts despite her slender body.

In Sonny Chiba's fighting, he and his opponent, the Japan Action Club (JAC) performer, actually hit each other with punching and kicking techniques, and while switching from normal speed to high speed, it was the first work shot in one cut. It is also used in Chiba's backflip, and since there was no practical CGI before The Matrix (1999), this technique was adopted, resulting in a credible and awesome image. The following year, the same technique was introduced in the Japan - Hong Kong - Thailand co-production Gekisatsu! Jadou-ken (1977), also starring Chiba. The scene in which the main protagonist fights with gangsters at the end of the film was filmed on location at Kujukuri Beach.

In 1991, when 14 fighting movies starring Chiba were revived in Los Angeles, this work was also screened.

On November 20, 2007, BCI Eclipse released the film in their Sonny Chiba Collection DVD set, which also includes Golgo 13: Assignment Kowloon, The Bullet Train, Dragon Princess, Karate Kiba, and Sister Street Fighter.[4]

• Karate Warriors at IMDb