Karate Wars
Karate Wars
1978, Japanese. Directed by Hideo Nanbu.
Maki travels from Japan to Hong Kong and Thailand in order to show the superiority of Japanese karate to those countries' native to martial arts.
- Runtime
- 1h 29m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- Japanese
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- Released
- 1 January 1978
- Original title
- Karate daisenso
- Country
- Japan
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Karate Wars runs 89 minutes (1h 29m).
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Karate Wars isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 1 January 1978. (Checked 11 November 2026.)
What movies are like Karate Wars?
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Who directed Karate Wars?
Karate Wars (1978) was directed by Hideo Nanbu and stars Tōru Abe, Charlie Chan Yiu-Lam, Nobuo Kaneko.