Year: 1978
Duration: 01:50:48
Directed by: Cirio H. Santiago
Actors: James Iglehart, Carmen Argenziano, Leon Issac Kennedy
Language: English
Country: USA, Phillipines
Also known as: Ein Mann wird zum Killer, Black samourai, Force of Death, Fighting Mad
Description: A dying man is rescued by japanese soldiers who teach him the ways of the samurai. When he returns home he exacts bloody revenge on his enemies and fights for his wife and son.
Action/adventure/revenge melodrama set in the Philippines and Los Angeles in the early 1970s. A trio of American NCOs – Morelli (Argenziano), McGee (Isaac), and Doug Russel (Inglehart) – smuggle a load of heroin from Vietnam to the Philippines in one casket among a load of bodies they are escorting home. They rendezvous with Philippine gangsters at sea and sell their cargo. On the boat trip back, Morelli and McGee turn on Russel (because he does not want to participate in their long term criminal plans), stabbing him and throwing him overboard. Russel washes ashore, barely alive, on an island inhabited by a pair of Japanese soldiers who believe they are still fighting World War II. The Japanese mend his wounds and teach him martial arts and sword fighting. Meanwhile, in Los Angeles, Morelli and McGee are conducting an aggressive and successful campaign to take over the local rackets. McGee also puts a move on Russel’s wife (Kennedy). Russel is eventually found by the Philippine military and returns to Los Angeles. There he learns what his ex-partners have been up to and begins a campaign of revenge, slicing up various gangsters with his samurai sword. When his wife and son are kidnapped by the gangsters, Russel comes to their rescue in a final showdown with his erstwhile betrayers.
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