One down two to go was released in theaters on December 11 1982 directed by Fred Williams and started in it

Chuck Wells (played by Jim Kelly) and his partner Ralph Dart (played by Richard Roundtree) are the owners of the International Martial Arts dojo which is located in Los Angeles. A martial arts tournament is taking place with a prize of $400,000. Chuck and Ralph have their best student enter the event. The organizer of the event Frank Rossi. Rossi is in alliance with mobster Gabe Mario who has put up half of the prize money. Rossi tries to fix the tournament so that the outcome will be the way he wants it. Chuck becomes aware of this and Rossi learns that he is in the know. He sends his henchmen out who shoot Chuck in the chest. However the shooting isn't lethal. The efforts of the organizers to rig the tournament aren't successful and the student from the International Martial Arts dojo wins the tournament. The prize money is promised to Ralph the next morning but Mario goes back on his word. In amongst this, Chuck manages to get to an alley behind a tavern where Teri his girl friend works. He tells her and her co-worker to let Ralph know about the shooting and to contact his two associates in California, Cal and J.[2][3] Cal (played by Fred Williamson) and J (played by Jim Brown) are a couple of touch cops who go after the mob that jinxed the martial arts tournament[4][5] Peter Dane plays Rossi and Victoria Hale plays his wife Maria. Mario is played by Tom Signorelli.[6][7]

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