Kumite

kumi-what?
Don't get this confused with Bloodsport folks. Instead of being a movie about a martial arts tournament feauturing a love story, this is a love story featuring a martial arts tournament. There is no indication of this from either the cover art of this dvd or the trailer itself. While the tournament is enjoyable and there is decent fight action, the love story is not strong enough to support the rest of the film.

The main charcacter is a yougn man named Bond, a student of both summer classes and martial arts in his community gym. He quickly shows a love interest for his school teacher, who looks young enough to be a student too, who in turn quickly shows an interest towrds him, though a bit weird. Not only is she his teacher, but comes off as someone who doesn'e even act one bit like a teacher, but more like a helpless-innocent schoolgirl. How ironic. The English dubbing only allows the love story to suffer even more, as if the cheesiness and slow-pacing involved...

great movie
i been wanting to see this movie for a very long time. i love the actors. it is a great movie.

Descent movie, misleading dvd cover
The movie is ok, specialy for the price. I bought the dvd at K-mart for $1.99.
The dvd cover is really misleading. First off, it's not the Kumite that we know, it's more like a torniment like in the movie "the Karate Kid", second, the guy on the dvd cover is the bad guy,(the guy the star fight at the end) The story is ok, a long love story in the middle of the action. The one thing that botherd me is that at the end of the movie you don't know who wins. Over all, an ok movie. For the price. $1 to $3 is a good price to pay.

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