The Bronzon Lee Za Karate Collection Blu-ray Limited Slipcover Edit

Following their international success with Sonny Chiba’s THE STREET FIGHTER series, Toei Company signed Japanese American 8th degree black belt karate and kobudo (weapons) champion Tadashi Yamashita for a new action trilogy in which Yamashita’s rugged looks and ferocious skills are pitted against a murderer’s row of actual competition fighters: In ZA KARATE – also included here in the recut/dubbed U.S. Version released as BRONSON LEE, CHAMPION – Ohio farm boy Yamashita is targeted by mobsters when he dares to compete in Kyoto’s World Championship. In ZA KARATE 2, the world’s deadliest martial artists are sent to kill Tadashi before he can avenge the theft of a priceless sword. In ZA KARATE 3, Yamashita must learn new fighting styles to defeat a global squad of kung fu assassins. Asian cinema icons including Bolo Yeung (ENTER THE DRAGON), Shingo Yamashiro (13 ASSASSINS) and Shunji Sasaki (SAMURAI WOLF) co-star in these “batsh*t fun” (Trashmen Media) films directed by Yukio Noda (Toei’s DELINQUENT BOSS series), now scanned in 4K from their original camera negatives for the first time ever, with over 6 hours of all-new Special Features starring Grandmaster Yamashita himself.
 
 
Special Features for THE BRONSON LEE ZA KARATE COLLECTION:
 
Disc 1: ZA KARATE / BRONSON LEE, CHAMPION Blu-ray
 
Audio Commentary With Star Tadashi Yamashita, Actor/Director/Bruceploitation Expert Michael Worth And August Ragone, Author Of Eiji Tsuburaya: Master Of Monsters (ZA KARATE Version Only)
Partial Audio Commentary With Cult Cinema Critic Lovely Jon (BRONSON LEE, CHAMPION Version Only)
Bronson Lee, Thespian – Interview With Tadashi Yamashita
Japanese Teaser
Japanese Trailer
U.S. Trailer
 
 
Disc 2: ZA KARATE 2 / ZA KARATE 3 Blu-ray
ZA KARATE 2:
 
Audio Commentary With Star Tadashi Yamashita, Actor/Director/Bruceploitation Expert Michael Worth And Boxer/Fighter A.J. ‘The Rabbit’ Richardi
Teaser
Trailer
 
ZA KARATE 3:
 
Audio Commentary With Star Tadashi Yamashita, Actor/Director/Bruceploitation Expert Michael Worth And Fight Choreographer John Kreng
The Donnie Williams Show – Interview With Co-Star Donnie Williams
Scene Specific Commentary With Donnie Williams
Trailer
Feature Specs for THE BRONSON LEE ZA KARATE COLLECTION:
Aspect Ratio: 2.39:1
Runtime: ZA KARATE (Uncut Japanese Version): 86 mins / BRONSON LEE, CHAMPION (PG U.S. Version): 79 mins / ZA KARATE 2: 86 mins / ZA KARATE 3: 86 mins
Audio: ZA KARATE: Japanese Mono / BRONSON LEE, CHAMPION: English Mono / ZA KARATE 2: Japanese Mono / ZA KARATE 3: Japanese Mono
Subtitles: ZA KARATE: English / BRONSON LEE, CHAMPION: English SDH / KARATE 2: English / ZA KARATE 3: English
Region: A