Kill or Be Killed
1980, PG, 90 min.
Directed by Ivan Hall, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring James Ryan, Charlotte Michelle, Norman Coombes, Daniel Duplessis, Raymond Ho-Tong.

In this martial arts movie, a former Nazi karate coach wants revenge against the Japanese team that beat him during World War II. So international karate champs lock limbs in Namibia for a no-holds-barred competition. For more on the Something Weird Wednesdays series, see austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2001-02-16/screens_feature.html.

This article appears in June 8 • 2001.

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.