The Challenge

He has trained every thought… every muscle… every nerve… for this moment of truth! The Challenge was co-written by John Sayles and Richard Maxwell, and stars Scott Glenn as an American boxer thrust into a Japanese family feud involving the ownership of an ancient sword. Screen legend Toshiro Mifune, plays a master samurai who trains the American in the ways of Japanese martial arts and culture so that he can assist him in foiling his rich industrialist brother (Atsuo Nakamura). (Kino Lorber)