Black Samurai

Black Samurai
Theatrical poster
Directed byAl Adamson
Written byB. Readick
StarringJim Kelly
CinematographyLouis Horvath
Edited byJim Landis
Release date
  • February 1977 (1977-02)
Running time
88 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Black Samurai is a 1977 American blaxploitation martial arts spy action adventure film directed by Al Adamson and starring Jim Kelly. Produced by BJLJ International, with Executive Producer Laurence Joachim and screenplay credited to B. Readick, with additional story ideas from Marco Joachim. The film is based on a novel of the same name, by Marc Olden.[1][2][3][4]

Plot

Robert Sand, agent of D.R.A.G.O.N. (Defense Reserve Agency Guardian Of Nations), is playing tennis on his vacation with a beautiful black girl, when his commanding officers ask him to save a Japanese girl named Toki who happens to be Sand's girlfriend, and the daughter of a top Eastern Ambassador. The ransom for the abduction was the secret for a terrific new weapon - the freeze bomb - but the 'Warlock' behind the deed is also into the business of drug dealing and Voodoo ritual murders. The search takes him from Hong Kong to California through Miami, and plenty of action, against bad men, bad girls, and bad animals.

Cast

See also

  • Afro Samurai – Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Takashi Okazaki
  • Yasuke – 16th-century African samurai

References

  1. ^ Ray Lott, M. (January 2004). The American Martial Arts Film - M. Ray Lott. McFarland. ISBN 9780786418367. Retrieved 2015-03-28.
  2. ^ Mengel, Bradley (2009-09-16). Serial Vigilantes of Paperback Fiction: An Encyclopedia from Able Team to Z-Comm - Bradley Mengel. McFarland. ISBN 9780786454754. Retrieved 2015-03-28.
  3. ^ Locke, Brian (2012-09-18). Racial Stigma on the Hollywood Screen: The Orientalist Buddy Film - Brian Locke. Palgrave Macmillan US. ISBN 9781137295330. Retrieved 2015-03-28.
  4. ^ Black Camelot: African-American Culture Heroes in Their Times, 1960-1980 - William L. Van Deburg. University of Chicago Press. 1997. p. 187. ISBN 9780226847160. Retrieved 2015-03-28. JIM KELLY BLACK SAMURAI.