Karate: The Hand Of Death (1961) Rating: Starring: Joel Holt, Frank Blaine, Akira Shiga, Joe Hirakawa, Reiko Okada Director: Joel Holt Category: Action / Adventure, Classics, Classics, Cult Classics Studio: Image Ent. Subtitles: Length: 80 mins     It'll Kung the Fu Out Of You! Before there was Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan or Oddjob, there was Karate: The Hand of Death, the first martial arts movie ever released in America! When an ex-Nazi is murdered in the streets of Japan, a mysterious coin stolen from his corpse is found in the possession of Matt Carver, an American with a black belt in Karate and huge scars on his knuckles to prove it. Besieged by killers who crave the coin. Carver quickly learns that it leads to a million-dollar fortune in stolen plutonium as well as a duel to the death with a karate-chopping psycho - all in glorious eye-splitting widescreen! Plus: We leap from Japan to China for The Incredible Marital-Arts-Mayhem Kung Fu Trailer Show containing over Two hours of bone=busting, fist-flying action with 50-count 'em-previews from the wildest martial arts movies ever made, including: Big Bad Bolo, Blood Of the Dragon, The Buddha Assassinator (Shogun Massacre), Chaku-Master (Kung-Fu Death Wish), Chinese Hercules, Deadly Strike (Wanted! Bruce Li Dead Or Alive!), Deep Thrust, Devil Woman/Dragons Never Die, Dragons Die Hard, Fearless Fighters, Flying Claw Fights 14 Demons, Fury Of the Black Belt, Hammerfist Masters, Hands Of Death, He Has Nothing But Kung Fu (Gangbusters Kung-Fu), Incredible Master Beggars, The Iron-Fist Rebel, Japanese Connection, The Karate Killer, Kill and Kill Again, Kill or Be Killed, Korean Connection, Kung-Fu the Punch Of Death, Lee The Angry Man, The Mad and Mean and the Deadly, Master of the Flying Guillotine, Masters Of the Iron Arena, When Tae Kwon Do Strikes, World War of Kung Fu, Return Of the Street Fighter, The Sacred Knives of Vengeance, The Screaming Tiger, Shanghai Killers, Shanghai Lil and the Sun Luck Kid, Shoalin Master Killer, Single Fighter, Sister Street Fighter, Slash-Blade Of Death!, Slaughter In San Francisco, Snake Fist Fighter, The Street Fighter, Superdragon, Superfist, The Tattoo Connection, Temple Of Death, Ten Tigers of Shaolin, The Thunder Kick, Thunderfist, Tower Of the Drunken Dragons and Two Swords Two Sorcerers.