There are six Karate Warrior movies and for me, that’s about ten too few as I could watch these all day every day. This time, Anthony Scott has left Miami and given his golden gi to a martial arts school that his friend Greg (Timothy Smith) runs. That’s where the new Karate Warrior comes to learn, a man known as Larry Jones (Ron Williams, who was in Beyond the Door III). He’s in love with a girl named Betty, but as a poor kid, her father wants him to stay out of the picture. He pays him off — well, he helps his mother financially — if he leaves his daughter alone.

The bad guy this time is Joe Carson (Christopher Alan, who played the evil Dick Anderson in the last film), a bully who beats up Greg and sets him up for a hit and run before he steals the golden gi. Larry smashes Joe’s boom box and soon finds a sensei of his own, Mr. Masura (Richard Goon), to learn how to fight back. A friend of Kimura, he teaches Joe the The Dragon Strike, which is different than Anthony’s Stroke of the Dragon as it’s a ridge hand strike — done with the thumb side of the hand — instead of an open palm shotei.

Maybe if our new Karate Warrior wins the big match against Joe, he can keep the house that his alcoholic mother (Lauren Russel) is losing, keep his sister Julie (Katy Johnson) in school and maybe, just maybe, win over Sammy’s dad. By the way, Sammy is played by Dorian D. Field and she was also the love interest in another Fabrizio De Angelis shot in the Southern U.S. movie — Savannah, Georgia — Karate Rock. Do you even understand how many Italian karate movies I have seen when I can recognize girlfriends from them?

Not only are there three more movies, there was also a TV series, Golden Kimono Warrior, which had the same cast as this movie, as well as David Warbeck as Larry’s dad and Marty “Boogeyman” Wright as a fighter named Alabama Bull.