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Bloodsport (1988)

★ 7.0 · 2,123 ratings on TMDB

The true story of an American ninja.

Bloodsport poster★ 7.0

An American Army Major goes AWOL to Hong Kong for an outlawed martial arts contest called the Kumite.

DirectorNewt Arnold
CastBolo Yeung, Donald Gibb, Forest Whitaker, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Kenneth Siao Wai-Keung, Leah Ayres
GenresAction, Drama, Thriller
The emergence reading

Bloodsport keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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