The Deadly Art of Survival (1979) Plot Summary Explained

Release, runtime and language

1979 · 77 mins · English

Directed by

Charlie Ahearn

Starring

Kiki Smith, George David Gonzalez, Nathan Ingram, Gerard Hovagimyan, Miguel Villanueva, Freddy Rivera

Kung-fu master Nathan Ingram leads this gritty, low-budget martial-arts saga as a karate school owner who battles a gang of drug traffickers posing as a rival dojo’s proprietors. Director Charlie Ahearn—known for Wild Style—shot the 1979 film on vintage Super 8, using the housing projects beside his Lower East Side apartment as the main setting.