Karate Kiba
is a 1973 Japanese martial arts film starring Sonny Chiba. It is based on an action manga by Ikki Kajiwara.
Plot
On his way home to Japan, karate master Kiba thwarts a terrorist attack on the airplane. He then gives a press conference, stating he saw the attack as a good opportunity to promote his karate school and announces that he's starting a bodyguard service. He is soon approached by his first customer, a woman who pays him for four days of protection but is secretive about the nature of the threat against herself. Kiba finds himself wrapped up in the international drug trade and has to fight the mafia.
More details
author | Ikki Kajiwara Ryuzo Nakanishi |
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director | Ryūichi Takamori |
editor | Osamu Tanaka |
genre | action crime |
keywords | drug trade karate press conference terrorist attack the international |
musicBy | Toshiaki Tsushima |
producer | Susumu Yoshikawa Terry Levene |
theme | gangster japanese mafia martial arts |