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Bloodsport is a 1988 movie starring Jean-Claude Van Damme. Although the film enjoyed little box-office success, it is considered a cult classic by many martial arts film enthusiasts.

Plot

The main character of the film, allegedly based on a true story, is American Frank Dux (Jean Claude Van Damme), who was trained from his youth in the martial arts by a Japanese martial artist, Senzo Tanaka (Roy Chiao), to participate in the Kumite, a brutal and occasionally deadly freestyle, single-elimination, full-contact martial arts tournament that draws the world's best martial artists. Dux eventually joins the army but leaves for Hong Kong to fight in the Kumite. He is forced to resist and evade two law enforcement agents (Norman Burton and Forest Whitaker) sent from the United States to track him down and arrest him. While preparing for the Kumite, Dux befriends another American fighter, Ray Jackson (Donald Gibb), a physically imposing man who also decimates several of his tournament foes. Dux also becomes romantically involved with an American journalist, Janice Kent (Leah Ayres), who traveled to Hong Kong to investigate the Kumite. During the course of the tournament, Dux successfully eliminates many of his diverse opponents, including an Arab fighter (Bernard Mariano) and a formidable Sumo wrestler-type fighter. Dux advances to the final match of the tournament to face the muscular and heartless Chong Li (Bolo Yeung), the defending Kumite champion, who has killed or crippled a few participants and hospitalized his friend Jackson. After an intense, physically trying match during which Li blinds Dux with a handful of salt, Dux emerges victorious to become the first Westerner to win the Kumite.

Cast

Jean-Claude Van Damme: Frank Dux
Donald Gibb
: Ray Jackson
Leah Ayres
: Janice Kent
Norman Burton
: Helmer
Forest Whitaker
: Rawlins
Roy Chiao: Tanaka
Philip Chan: Captain Chen
Pierre Rafini: Young Frank
Bolo Yeung
: Chong Li
Ken Siu: Victor (as Kenneth Siu)
Kimo Lai Kwok Ki: Hiro
Bernard Mariano: Hossein
Bill Yuen Ping Kuen: Oshima
Lily Leung: Mrs. Tanaka
Joshua Schroder: Chuck/Older Boy

Crew

Music by: Paul Hertzog
Edited by: Carl Kress
Director of photography: David Worth
Story by: Sheldon Lettich
Screenplay by: Sheldon Lettich, Christopher Cosby, Mel Friedman
Produced by: Mark DiSalle
Directed by: Newt Arnold

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