Karate Tiger 5 - King of Kickboxers

Movie
German title	Karate Tiger 5 - King of Kickboxers
Original title	The King of the Kickboxers
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	1990
length	94 minutes
Age rating	FSK 18
Rod
Director	Lucas Lowe
script	Keith W. Strandberg John Kay
production	See-Yuen Ng Keith W. Strandberg
music	Richard Yuen
camera	Viking Chiu
cut	Allan Poon Marco Zappia
occupation
Loren Avedon : Jake Donahue Richard Jaeckel : Capt. O'Day Don Stroud : Anderson Billy Blanks : Khan Sherrie Rose : Molly William Long Jr .: Big Boss David Michael Sterling : Mr. McKinney Keith Cooke : Prang Ong Soo Han : Thasi (as Ong) Jerry Trimble : Drug Dealer Bruce Fontaine : Dan Handel Patrick Shuck : Young Jake Michael Depasquale Jr .: Sean Donahue

Karate Tiger 5 - King of the Kickboxers (Original title: The King of the Kickboxers ) is a martial arts film by the director Lucas Lowe from 1990 . The film represents the fourth part of the No Retreat, No Surrender series. For marketing reasons, it was distributed in German-speaking countries as the fifth part of the Karate Tiger series.

action

Jake Donahue, an experienced FBI undercover agent, is dispatched to Thailand on a mission. There he is supposed to arrest a film producer who has real fights shot in which people are killed. The main character in these films is Khan, a black-skinned kickboxer who killed Jake's brother 10 years ago. So Jake has a personal motive.

Jake is a whipping boy who messes with anyone. So he attends a kickboxing school, where he easily defeats opponents. Later he is challenged to a fight by one of the kickboxing school (the B-Man from Bloodsport 2 ), which easily defeats him. He advised him that if he wanted to have a real chance against Khan, he should seek out Master Prang, who almost defeated Khan. Jake then does so and is subjected to tough combat training by Prang.

Always at his side is his girlfriend Molly, whom he once saved from them - persecuted by Khan's people, who wanted them for himself. After hard training, Jake completed a few tournament matches and was then hired by the director of the films to fight Khan in a kind of wooden cage arena in the middle of the jungle. Khan had previously killed Prang, whom he threw into the water in front of Jake; in addition, Molly was taken hostage. At first it looks like Jake is about to lose the fight against Khan; but then the memory comes up in him, which is laced in anger and he remembers the fighting techniques that he learned from Prang. Finally he defeats Khan.

Information about the title

The film has been released under different names, depending on the state. It is sold in German-speaking countries as Karate Tiger 5 - King of Kickboxers , but also as Karate Tiger V - King of Kickboxers . Since the Karate Tiger series is not an actually existing film series (see main article Karate Tiger ), it was also published as Karate Tiger 4 in some countries . In addition, it is in some places the fourth part of the No Retreat, No Surrender series and is known as No Retreat, No Surrender 4 , No Retreat, No Surrender 4: The King of the Kickboxers or just The King of the Kickboxers and other variations. The film was unindexed in December 2016.

criticism

"Brutal action film of the usual style."

- Lexicon of international film

Web links

• Karate Tiger 5 - King of the Kickboxer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Karate Tiger 5 - King of the Kickboxer at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
• Comparison of the cut versions FSK 18 - NL tape from Karate Tiger 5 - King of Kickboxers at Schnittberichte.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Karate Tiger 5 - King of Kickboxers. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .