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Watch the Shadows Dance is a film of genre Action directed by Mark Joffe with Nicole Kidman
Watch the Shadows Dance (1988)
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Add to a movie listWatch the Shadows Dance is a 1987 film set fifteen years in the future. It is also known as Nightmaster.
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A tight-knit group of high school students studies karate with Steve Beck (Vince Martin), a former soldier in an unnamed war. They begin working at 5:00 a.m., which makes them sleepy in Sonia Spane's (Joanne Samuel) class. Spane is Beck's former lover, and she complains to him about the relentless schedule of his classes. Beck's students also engage in a mock war game at night, which is held in a factory. The losers get tagged with a fluorescent dye on their faces. When Spane sees the dye on a student's face, she interrogates them about the game, which they call "kuma".Actors
Nicole Kidman
(Amy Gabriel)
Joanne Samuel
(Sonia Spane)
Vince Martin
(Steve Beck)
Sean Garlick
Craig Pearce
(Guy Duncan)
Christopher Truswell
('Fingers' Hough)
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