Midnight Screenings 2018 / Bloodsport / USA 1988
At least once in his life, every boy has wanted to learn a martial art, and whoever denies this claim has never seen Bloodsport. The hero is Frank Dux, who has been training his whole life for just one thing – to battle to victory in an arena where boys become men.
An American soldier trained from his youth by a Japanese ninjutsu master goes AWOL to Hong Kong in order to participate in an illegal, no-holds-barred tournament. In the 1980s, when Western fascination with Asian martial arts reached a peak, Jean-Claude Van Damme arrived on the scene with his legendary helicopter kick, and nothing was ever the same again. One of the most cultish of all cult martial arts movies, this flick made a name for the then little-known Belgian, but it also gave a boost to Bolo Yeung, the film’s onscreen nemesis, who wound up a lifelong friend of Van Damme. It’s time to dust off your kimono and start practicing your deathblow. Hajime!
Nikola Paggio
92 min / Color, Blu-ray
Director Newt Arnold
/ Screenplay Sheldon Lettich, Christopher Cosby, Mel Friedman
/ Dir. of Photography David Worth
/ Music Paul Hertzog
/ Editor Carl Kress
/ Producer Mark DiSalle, Yoram Globus, Menahem Golan
/ Production Cannon International
/ Cast Jean-Claude Van Damme, Donald Gibb, Leah Ayres, Norman Burton, Roy Chiao
/ Sales Park Circus Group
Newt Arnold (1922, Palo Alto, California, USA – 2000, Los Angeles). Filmography: Hands of a Stranger (1962), Blood Thirst (1971), Bloodsport (1988)
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