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Disc 2 contains Karate Bearfighter (1975), with a brand new audio commentary by Mike Leeder & Arne Venema and the original theatrical trailer. Ōyama is expelled from the karate community for refusing to pull his punches. With nowhere else to turn, he takes a job with the yakuza after running into Kimura (Hideo Murota), whom he knew as a fellow member of the Imperial Japanese Air Service before Kimura turned to a life of crime. Ultimately, though, Ōyama has no more respect for his superiors on the streets than he did in the dojo.

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Disc 1 contains Karate Bullfighter (1975), with a brand new audio commentary by Mike Leeder & Arne Venema, the video essay "In Search of the Ultimate Truth" by Jonathan Clements, the alternate "Champion of Death" opening credits, the original theatrical trailer and a "Champion of Death" TV spot. A karate tournament is crashed by an enigmatic martial artist calling himself Ōyama (Chiba), who arrives in tattered rags and beats all who dare challenge him. But Ōyama's entrance into the world of karate has unforeseen consequences, and soon he is fighting for far more than sporting victory.

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In snowy Fukui, loose-cannon yakuza Kawada rebels when his boss allies with a powerful Osaka syndicate. The syndicate's rivals recruit Kawada as their proxy, but his temper alienates them too, leaving him to face overwhelming forces largely alone. Kinji Fukasaku's final yakuza film, drawn from a real gang war, stars Hiroki Matsukata with Sonny Chiba.

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Disc 2 contains Karate Warriors (1976) and The Great Okinawa Yakuza War (1976). Karate Warriors: A karate fighter and a samurai join opposing gangs in order to take them down from the inside. The Great Okinawa Yakuza War: Set in Okinawa in 1971, one year before the return of power to the mainland, the film depicts the bloody battle between Okinawa yakuza gangsters and the mainland system.

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Kinji Fukasaku's box-office hit brings together Hiroko Yakushimaru, Hiroyuki Sanada, Sonny Chiba and Etsuko Shihomi in a fantasy-tinged historical epic. The Satomi clan has been all but wiped out by its enemies, the ghoulish, undead Hikita clan, and Princess Shizu — the family's last survivor — flees into hiding to escape their fate. On her own, she crosses paths with Shinbei, a farmer turned soldier, and then with a pair of warrior monks who prove to be two of the eight legendary Hakkenden, the 'dog warriors' able to lift the curse hanging over her family. Together they must track down the remaining warriors and confront Tamazusa, the Hikita clan's evil leader.

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In feudal Japan, the sorcerer Kashin Koji prophesies to Lord Danjo Hisahide that whoever wins the heart of Lady Ukyo, wife of Lord Miyoshi Yoshioki, will rule the land. Ukyo has a secret twin sister, Kagaribi, whose lover Jotaro (Hiroyuki Sanada) has been training her as a ninja; when Kashin Koji's band of immortal monks kidnaps Kagaribi and leaves Jotaro for dead, he survives to begin a quest to rescue her and protect Ukyo from Danjo's designs. Kosei Saito's film blends ninja lore with horror and fantasy elements in a dark, supernatural action tale.

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On his adoptive father's deathbed, Texas-raised rancher Joji learns he has a twin brother and a sister he never knew. He travels to Japan to find his brother, only to learn he has been mysteriously killed; staying with his sister, Joji uncovers his uncle's criminal enterprises and his scheme to obtain a priceless 130-carat diamond, the Queen of Sheba, and fights to avenge his family.

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With her husband behind bars, Tamaki — the wife of a yakuza boss — runs his gang with an iron fist. Her younger sister Makoto, meanwhile, marries into a rival gang after being raped by one of its members. Bound by blood but wed to enemies, the two sisters will ultimately be forced to choose where their loyalty lies.