Black Belt

Action, Drama

🎬 Critics Choice Nominee

Director Shunichi Nagasaki

Status Released

Release Date 2007-10-13

Storyline

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.

"Real Fight, Real Karate, Real Japan."