Armed Response

1986 86 min Action, Thriller

One of Tanaka's underlings has stolen a rare statuette that he had planned to use as a peace offering between the local Yakusa and Chinese Tong. He hires two private investigators to exchange ransom money to recover the statuette, but the trade goes down bad and Clay Roth is killed. This angers Roth's brothers and father, all combat veterans, and they go after the people responsible

budget $1,500,000 earnings $1,300,000 return 0.9x

director Fred Olen Ray

writers T.L. Lankford, Fred Olen Ray, Paul Hertzberg