Martial arts fans and ardent supporters of upcoming tourno fighting thriller, The Last Kumite, got a taste of things to come last month with a teaser that’s disappeared from the interwebs. Fret not though, for a new teaser has arrived for a proper intro into the millieu of arena fisticuffs shepherded by director Ross W. Clarkson.
Kampfansage: Der Letzte Schuler star Mathis Landwehr takes the lead in his newest screen outing in the role of Michael Rivers, a fighter forced to take heed to an invite to compete in an underground fighting circuit to save his daughter, joining a plethora of other competitors who are in a similar predicament.
Clarkson directs from a script he wrote with co-scribe Sean David Lowe who serves as one of the film’s exec producers, and who also led the film’s initial crowdfunding campaign in the last few years. Composer Paul Hertzog and recording artist Stan Bush are the engineer’s of the film’s soundtrack, catering to throwback aesthetics permeating the halcyon days of martial arts action fandom of the eighties and early-nineties.
Landwehr is joined by a bevy of veteran stars and newcomers of the martial arts genre, including Mohammed Qissi, Cynthia Rothrock, Billy Blanks, Matthias Hues and Kurt McKinney, along with David “Bolo Jr.” Yeung, David “Viking Samurai” Kurzhal, young actress Kira Kortenbach, and more, with action sequences by Mike Moeller (Sky Sharks, Ultimate Justice).
The new teaser below arrived on Monday, re-edited and re-tooled to sample a little bit of the Hertzog/Bush collaborative effort offered to the new action flick. Capelight Pictures is reportedly releasing the film on digital around May, followed by a home media release.
