# Black Belt (2007)

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**Original title**: *黒帯*
**Runtime**: 95 min
**Genres**: Action, Drama
**Directed by**: Shunichi Nagasaki
**Written by**: George Iida
**Starring**: Akihito Yagi, Tatsuya Naka, Yū Kamio, Arashi Fukasawa, Hakuryu, Takayasu Komiya

> *Real Fight, Real Karate, Real Japan.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

You train in a small dojo in the woods of central Kyushu, but kempeitai arrive to requisition it, Shunichi Nagasaki directs this 1932-set drama.

**Mood tags**: bittersweet, raw

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