Black Belt

Original title: 黒帯

Real Fight, Real Karate, Real Japan.

2007 · 1 h 35 · Japan · Japanese

• Action
• Drama

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.