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Karate from Shaolin Temple
The Japanese karate master Muhashi spent some time in Hong Kong studying various Shaolin martial arts styles. Soon the narcotics brigade calls in his help to combat a powerful drug and prostitution syndicate.
Hideo Nanbu
Casts & Crew
Ken Kazama
Junko Igarashi
Henry Yu Yung
Kitty Meng Chui
Fanny Leung
Fung Ngai
Tong Tin-Hei
Yuen Siu-Tien
Chow Siu-Loi
Bill Lake
Cheung Chok-Chow
Also Directed by Hideo Nanbu
Middle-aged farmer Noda Masao (Daichi Yasuo) is a good, honest man, but his attempts for marriage have all met with failure. Through a friend, Masao meets Liberty (Ruby Moreno), a Filipino woman working in Japan. When they decide to get married, Masao borrows money from his Agricultural Association and travels to the Philippines for the wedding - only to discover that it was all a scam. Stranded in Manila with no money, Masao ends up staying to work. One day he meets a beautiful farmer's daughter, Christina (Alice Dixson), reawakening not only his chances for love, but also his love for farming.
Hiroshi Hamano, a professor at a medical university, is found dead. Going by the results of the autopsy, it appears he committed suicide by jumping off a roof, but going by eyewitness testimony and physical evidence at the scene, Detective Kamei suspects murder. A ticket for a train trip around Japan is found in the professor's pocket. However, nobody then could have known the shocking truth hidden behind the tour the dead man was supposed to attend...
The martial arts group Jin and the economic yakuza Yoshiro Jinyoshi combination ended the conflict with the homology group, and after receiving the orders of Sumida River Association Chairman Sunagawa, Jin was finally appointed as acting leader of the Sunagawa group. Mizuta, the leader of the Ryugumi, who had long wanted to smoke the existence of the two, was dissatisfied with this decision of Sunagawa, and suspected that Sunagawa might be trying to take over the Sumida River Association and eventually the Kanto Ichienkai in the future.Come to embrace. Paddy looks at Aoki, the remnant of the Kurokawa group, who was once crushed by the two, trying to hold his breath while Hitoshi is still in the position of acting group leader.
The battle gang Yakuza Hitoshi Kamibayashi (Riki Takeuchi) and the brain gang Yakuza Yoshiro Yazaki (Toshihiko Sakakibara) from the University of Tokyo challenge the summit decisive battle of the extreme society.
Meet Saotome Ai, a high school girl from a well-to-do family. When she was a small child, she was in an accident that resulted in a young boy being permanently scarred between his eyes while she emerged unscathed. The young boy saved her life and although she never knew who he was, she never forgot him. Meet Taiga Makoto, a young man with a scar between his eyes who has had a rough life, but has emerged as a rough, tough bully - a thug and a brawler and about as rude as they come - all of which he blames on the incident that gave him his scar. When Ai and Makoto run into each other again, Ai feels guilt for what Makoto has become and decides to intervene and rehabilitate him. But is he a diamond in the rough, or just a bully?
Maki travels from Japan to Hong Kong and Thailand in order to show the superiority of Japanese karate to those countries' native to martial arts.