Black Belt

2007

Japanese

6.9

♡ 5

75%

martial arts training

Sport

Shunichi Nagasaki Director

Masahiro Sudô as (as Masahiro Sudo)

Kimika Yoshino as Chiyo

Yôsuke Natsuki as Eiken Shibahara

Tatsuya Naka as Taikan

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.