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Bloodsport(Movie, 1988)

FSK: 18+ years
| 1h 32min | Genres: Action, Drama
BloodsportRating: 3.5/5 (with 749749 votes)
Bloodsport is a 1988 American martial arts sports action film directed by Newt Arnold and starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, Leah Ayres, Forest Whitaker, Donald Gibb, Roy Chiao and Bolo Yeung. The film centers on Frank Dux (Van Damme), a United States Army Captain and ninjutsu practitioner, who competes in an underground full-contact martial arts tournament called the Kumite in Hong Kong. Based on Dux's real-life claims the movie was marketed as a true story. It was one of Van Damme's first lead roles and showcased his abilities, launching his career as a mainstream action star. The screenplay is based on many of Dux's claims first covered in the November 1980 issue of Black Belt magazine. The real Dux served as the... ()
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Awards & Nominations for Bloodsport

Golden Raspberry Award for Worst New Star

About Bloodsport

U.S. soldier Frank Dux has come to Hong Kong to be accepted into the Kumite, a highly secret and extremely violent martial arts competition. While trying to gain access into the underground world of clandestine fighters, he also has to avoid military officers who consider him to be AWOL. After enduring a difficult training and beginning a romance with journalist Janice Kent, Frank is given the opportunity to fight. But can he survive?

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Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)
Shot in: Hong Kong
Plays in: Hong Kong
Made by: Cannon Group
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN)
Translated into 26 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Czech (CS), Danish (DA), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Finnish (FI), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Korean (KO), Lithuanian (LT), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Romanian (RO), Russian (RU), Slovak (SK), Serbian (SR), Swedish (SV), Thai (TH), Turkish (TR), Ukrainian (UK), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 06/09/1988 (World premiere: 02/26/1988)
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"Bloodsport - Eine wahre Geschichte"
"Contacto Sangriento"
"Véres játék"
"투혼"
"Contacto Sangriento"
"Кровавый спорт"
"Bloodsport I"
"Contacto Sangriento"
Budget: 1,500,000 USD
Revenue: 65,000,000 USD (= 4,333%)

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