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The Challenge

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1982
1h 49m
English
Action, Drama
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Rick, a down-and-out American boxer, is hired to transport a sword to Japan, unaware that the whole thing is a set up in a bitter blood-feud between two brothers, one who follows the traditional path of the samurai and the other a businessman. At the behest of the businessman, Rick undertakes samurai training from the other brother, but joins his cause. He also becomes romantically involved with the samurai's daughter.
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55

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Cast

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Scott Glenn
Toshir Mifune
Toru Yoshida
Donna Kei Benz
Akiko Yoshida
Atsuo Nakamura
Hideo Yoshida
Calvin Jung
Clyde Kusatsu
Sab Shimono
Toshio Yoshida
Kiyoaki Nagai
Kenta Fukasaku
Shgo Shimada
Toru Yoshida's Father
Yoshio Inaba
Instructor
Seiji Miyaguchi
Miiko Taka
Toru Yoshida's Wife
Akio Kameda
Hisashi Osaka
Pamela Bowman
Girl in Gym
Directed By: John Frankenheimer
Written By: John Sayles, Ivan Moffat, + 1 more

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slimecrush says...
2 years ago
This poor man really gets his shit pushed in for 48 straight minutes. Will you eat live lobster? Yes Will you eat live eels? Yes Will you eat bugs? Yes Will you get beat up for most of your time on set? I would do anything
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Musadiq456 says...
3 weeks ago
Predictable and boring, the only thing The Challenge does well is bastardizing Japanese values and Samurai film conventions with it's ultra-violent American DNA. Sad to see Mifune wasted on this
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jekyl6669 says...
8 years ago
Ridiculous, yet fun as hell culture-clash 80s action movie. Scott Glenn is awesome as always as is Mifune, who it was weird seeing in his twilight. Some cheesy but glorious one liners, and surprisingly decent action sequences.
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UncleWormie says...
10 years ago
It was great to see the principle martial arts were derived primarily from Aikido, plus swordsmanship that looks like Yagyu Shinkage Rye school of fencing. Of course Toru Yoshida, played by Toshiro Mifune, also demonstrated archery, but I do not know the style. Aikido and jujitsu students will recognize a lot of the waza, but a lot of the training (Taiso) was exclusively Aikido, and Rick (Scott Glenn) gets humiliated with kaiten-nage and kokyu-nage, found only in Aikido.
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