Black Belt
Real Fight, Real Karate, Real Japan.
95 mins
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.
Akihito Yagi
Giryu
Tatsuya Naka
Taiken
George Iida
Writer
Hirohide Abe
Editor
Atsuro Hirai
Production Design
Masato Kaneko
Director of Photography
Yutaka Tsurumaki
Sound
Tatsuo Ozeki
Production Design
Hideki Tateno
Gaffer