Tekken is a 1990 Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

ese film directed by Junji Sakamoto

Junji Sakamoto

Junji Sakamoto is a Japanese film director born in Sakai City, Japan. After working as a set assistant or assistant director under such filmmakers as Sogo Ishii and Kazuyuki Izutsu, he made his directorial debut in 1989 with Dotsuitarunen and followed it up with another boxing film,...

. It stars Takeshi Yamato, Bunta Sugawara and Karen Kirishima.

Plot

The plot centers around a young ex-prisoner who takes up boxing ("Tekken" is Japanese for "iron fist").

Other uses

This movie has no relation to the Tekken video game series or the video game based 2010 film counterpart, even using the same name.