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Pray for Death is a american film of genre Thriller directed by Gordon Hessler released in USA on 11 january 1985 with Sho Kosugi
Pray for Death (1985)
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Add to a movie listPray For Death is a 1985 American martial arts action film starring Sho Kosugi.
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At the insistence of his American-born wife, Aiko (Donna Benz), Akira Saito (Sho Kosugi) decides to immigrate from Japan to the country of her birth to raise their two sons Takeshi (Kane Kosugi) and Tomoya (Shane Kosugi) and start their own business. Unbeknownst to his family, Akira is in fact a highly skilled ninja, who had faithfully protected the secrets of the temple minded by his adoptive father and sensei, Kaga. Years before, Akira's brother, Shoji - also raised and trained by Kaga - sought to steal from the temple in disguise, forcing Akira to engage him in battle and kill him. Akira's meditation on this matter is disrupted by an attack from Kaga to encourage him to wipe the guilt from his mind before it kills him. Akira announces his intentions to move to America to start a new life, and to put the shadows of the ninja behind him. Kaga makes him swear never to reveal the secrets of their sect, and gives him a ninja helmet as a parting gift, but reminds him he can never leave his shadows behind.Actors
Sho Kosugi
(Akira Saito)
James Booth
(Limehouse Willie)
Donna Kei Benz
(Aiko Saito)
Norman Burton
(Lt. Anderson)
Kane Kosugi
(Takeshi Saito)
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