Bloodfist (1989)

R  |   |  Action, Sport  |  22 September 1989 (USA)
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Don Wilson plays retired kickboxer Jake Raye, who travels to Manila, where his brother is favored to win a kickboxing competition. His brother is killed, and Jake realizes he must enter the... See full summary »

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Joe Mari Avellana ...
Kwong
Rob Kaman ...
Raton
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Black Rose
Cris Aguilar ...
Chin Woo (as kris Aguilar and Chris Aguilar)
Michael Shaner ...
Baby Davies
Riley Bowman ...
Nancy
Marilyn Bautista ...
Angela
Kenneth Peerless ...
Hal
Vic Diaz ...
Detective
Ned Hourani ...
Michael Raye
Félix Pascual ...
Beggar Lee
Edgardo Castañeda ...
Tung Pin
Archie Ramos ...
Scavenger
Ronald Asinas ...
Kwong's Brother
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Don Wilson plays retired kickboxer Jake Raye, who travels to Manila, where his brother is favored to win a kickboxing competition. His brother is killed, and Jake realizes he must enter the competition himself to flush out his brother's killer. Written by Concorde - New Horizons (with permission).

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The mountain that Don 'The Dragon' Wilson runs up is actually an active volcano, and the shot of Wilson standing at the summit was actually filmed at the volcano's vent. Wilson describes the filming as genuinely dangerous and claims he would not repeat the scene today. See more »

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Jake Raye: My brother was in a motorcycle accident. He needed a kidney. Actually he was my half brother but I gave him a whole kidney. And you can't fight with one kidney, it's like suicide. So I had to give it up.
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The first four credits that appear on the screen are world championship kickboxers, and under their names are the honors/awards they received. See more »

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Not quite a thrilla in Mannila, but enjoyable in its own way
28 July 2012 | by (United States) – See all my reviews

After his brother, Mike, is murdered in Manila, Jake (Don Wilson) travels down there to claim the body and must use his kick-boxing expertise to deal with the local highly-trained hooligans that had to do with his brother's untimely demise. He meets and stays with Baby and his sister Nancy (Riley Bowman)

If there's one fatal flaw with the film, I mean aside from the mediocre fight scenes, is the character of Baby, he's awful and brings the otherwise enjoyable , if not particularly good in the conventional sense of the word, don whenever he's on-screen. The writer of this is currently having fairly good fortune with hit TV show "The Good Wife", so the dues he paid were worth it, I kind of doubt he keeps this one on his resume though. Furthermore, 'The Dragon' would thankfully grow as an actor later in his career. I still hold a (unexplainable) soft spot for this film though.

Eye Candy: Riley Bowman and an extra get topless


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