Black belt karate champion Tadashi Yamashita's ferocious skills are pitted against a murderer's row of competition fighters in this action trilogy.

 

THE LEGENDARY TRILOGY ON TWO DISCS PLUS THE RE-CUT U.S. VERSION: BRONSON LEE, CHAMPION

Following their international success with Sonny Chiba's THE STREET FIGHTER series, Toei Company signed Japanese American 8th-degree black belt karate and kobudo (weapons) champion Tadashi Yamashita for a new action trilogy in which Yamashita's rugged looks and ferocious skills are pitted against a murderer's row of actual competition fighters: In ZA KARATE - also included here in the recut/dubbed U.S. Version released as BRONSON LEE, CHAMPION - Ohio farm boy Yamashita is targeted by mobsters when he dares to compete in Kyoto's World Championship. In ZA KARATE 2, the world's deadliest martial artists are sent to kill Tadashi before he can avenge the theft of a priceless sword. In ZA KARATE 3, Yamashita must learn new fighting styles to defeat a global squad of kung fu assassins. Asian cinema icons including Bolo Yeung (ENTER THE DRAGON), Shingo Yamashiro (13 ASSASSINS) and Shunji Sasaki (SAMURAI WOLF) co-star in these 'batsh*t fun' (Trashmen Media) films directed by Yukio Noda (Toei's DELINQUENT BOSS series), now scanned in 4K from their original camera negatives for the first time ever, with over 6 hours of all-new Special Features starring Grandmaster Yamashita himself.

Special Features

• ZA KARATE Commentary With Star Tadashi Yamashita, Actor/Director/Bruceploitation Expert Michael Worth And August Ragone, Author Of Eiji Tsuburaya: Master Of Monsters

• BRONSON LEE, CHAMPION Partial Commentary With Cult Cinema Critic Lovely Jon

• Interview With Tadashi Yamashita

• ZA KARATE 2 Commentary With Tadashi Yamashita, Michael Worth And Boxer/Fighter A.J. 'The Rabbit' Richardi

• ZA KARATE 3 Commentary With Tadashi Yamashita, Michael Worth And Fight Choreographer John Kreng

• Interview With Co-Star Donnie Williams

• Scene Specific Commentary With Donnie Williams

• And More!

Media

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Bonus Materials

• Audio Commentary For ZA KARATE With Star Tadashi Yamashita, Actor/Director/Bruceploitation Expert Michael Worth And August Ragone, Author Of Eiji Tsuburaya: Master Of Monsters
• Partial Audio Commentary For BRONSON LEE, CHAMPION With Cult Cinema Critic Lovely Jon
• Bronson Lee, Thespian – Interview With Tadashi Yamashita
• ZA KARATE Japanese Teaser
• ZA KARATE Japanese Trailer
• BRONSON LEE, CHAMPION U.S. Trailer
• Audio Commentary For ZA KARATE 2 With Star Tadashi Yamashita, Actor/Director/Bruceploitation Expert Michael Worth And Boxer/Fighter A.J. ‘The Rabbit’ Richardi
• ZA KARATE 2 Teaser
• ZA KARATE 2 Trailer
• Audio Commentary For ZA KARATE 3 With Star Tadashi Yamashita, Actor/Director/Bruceploitation Expert Michael Worth And Fight Choreographer John Kreng
• The Donnie Williams Show – Interview With ZA KARATE 3 Co-Star Donnie Williams
• Scene Specific Commentary For ZA KARATE 3 With Donnie Williams
• ZA KARATE 3 Trailer

 

Cast & Crew

Actors:

•       Tadashi Yamashita as Tadashi Yamashita/Bronson Lee
•       Dale Ferguson as Willy Zhang
•       Steve Fisher as Joe Gonzales
•       Yoko Horikoshi as Shinobu Suzuki
•       Alex Bourbose as Charles Martin
•       Albert Chiang as Gary Samson
•       Kuniomi Kitani as Kasim Khan
•       Kazuyuki Kosaka as Yasui
•       C. Moroz as Kitty Sugata-san
•       Yae Ozaki as Yuko
•       Takaya Shimoyama as Team
•       Masafumi Suzuki as Masafumi Suzuki
•       Bolo Yeung
•       Jin-pal Kim as Kim Jin-pal
•       Jerry Samson as Killer Samson
•       Gerald Carsons as Blue Geller
•       Milan van Okan as Dr. One
•       Tsutomu Harada as Guillotine Brother
•       Toshio Tomogane as Guillotine Brother
•       Shingo Yamashiro
•       Masataka Naruse as Goro Kurokawa
•       Kenichi Ageo as Hajime Sugahara
•       Hiroshi Tanaka as Kaiji Ryuzaki
•       Hiroshi Ebie
•       Takuji Aoki as Tokita
•       Shunji Sasaki
•       Daizen Shishido as Kazuyuki Kanemitsu
•       Masataka Iwao
•       Shintarô Nasu as Sojiro Okura
•       Kyôko Yashiro as Toshi Sugahara
•       Ken Okamoto as Masao
•       Masahiro Ueda as Kiyoshi
•       Reiko Mikawa as Nurse
•       Seizô Fukumoto
•       Ryûji Katagiri
•       Go Arita as Kijin-ryu Disciple
•       Men-Jo Chong
•       Emi Hayakawa as Chen Airi
•       Yasumori Hikita
•       Gorian Huddert
•       Naoji Iwata as Chen Songlin
•       Eizô Kitamura
•       Kinji Nakamura as Yusaku Tsumura
•       Michimaro Otabe
•       Yoshimasa Sato
•       Albert Taso
•       Tetsuo Torisu
•       Danny Williams as Black Wolf

Director: Yukio Noda

Producer: Yukio Imakawa

Producer: Masao Satô

Additional Details

Label: Severin Films

Genre: Action/Adventure

Language: Japanese

Run Time: 258:28 mins

Region: 1

Release Date: 05/26/26

UPC: 760137203223