The Deadly Art of Survival (1979)

Reallife kung fu master Nathan Ingram stars in this gritty lowbudget martial arts epic as a local karate school owner who clashes with a gang of drug traffickers posing as the owners of a rival dojo Director Charlie Ahearn who helmed the landmark hiphop film Wild Style used the housing projects next to his New York Lower East Side apartment as his central location in this 1979 classic shot on a vintage Super 8 camera