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Following their international success with Sonny Chiba's Street Fighter series, Toei signed Japanese-American karate and kobudo champion Tadashi Yamashita for a trilogy of action films pitting his ferocious skills against a murderer's row of real competition fighters. In Za Karate — also included here in its re-cut, dubbed U.S. version, 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 master new fighting styles to defeat a global squad of kung fu assassins. Directed by Yukio Noda and co-starring Bolo Yeung, Shingo Yamashiro and Shunji Sasaki.

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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.