"Exposure", 1991, (aka High Art, A Grande Arte) Hermes, excerpt Part II 

Definitely!!!

more like kali eskrima kid

Just shove steel on Johhny and no Kobra Kai on this Multiverse

Agree. Great casting. For a fairly "realistic" film about actual "knife fighters". With I think pretty much no camera tricks (e.g. speeding up the film, CGI...). but they could have done even better by...tweaking thee story...TK's character would have to have trained PC's character for at least a decade in a private location...no "house call". No "knife fighitng in what looked like a few hours?". :) it's a skill. Add you need to be of a certain mindset to be okay with using a knife to kill another human being. Add. Wht if PC's character...a photographer..has none of the neeed physical attributes needed?? Speed, quick reflexes...coordination...guys who beome photographers ummm...usually weren't the athletic type to begin with. Take the kids in school who became the "yearbook photographers"...HEH...not that far off from the kids who went to "band camp". :) To train a kid/person with that kind of physical ablity to be a "street knife fighter"??? :) They should have made PC's character at least ex-military...with only brief knife training..at least he had some "battle time"...some degree of strength and physical ability... This would be like taking Joe Accountant and trying to mold him into TK's caracter. :))

Tchéky Karyo is AMAZING 👏🏿

She doesn't believe in the primal codes and has a naive sense that her modern world is settled and established. Mandrake recognized immediately that he had to master a primal skill to rectify the bad things committed on him and his woman.

The martial arts adviser for the movie was Chris Kent, a JKD and Kali guy. I think in the book (in which the characters' fictional style is "PerSev") they reference 20th century military knife systems (Biddle) as inspiration, so while most of the knife work on display in the movie is Filipino-based, brief reference is made to Western techniques (passata sotto and in quartata)

​@@uexkeru infatti passata sotto e inquartata sono mosse di sottrazione della scherma,di difesa anche se ormai un po in disuso

Maybe a remake would be a better idea!

@slingshotwarrrior8105 as long as Tcheky Karyo returns, sounds good

no sequels for good story like this. Modern tv series are great but have gotten us addicted. I like self contained stories that leave more mystery and unanswered questions. Just my opinion.

By the Sword is on Tubi all the time.

Internet archive.

It is very hard to find now. I saw one DVD listed on Amazon for Region 2 (Netherlands). I could not find it listed on JustWatch.com.

@@serotta2 Does the URL you uploaded contain videos?

Me niether,i have it on VHS and i am going to see if i can get it put onto DVD,i will get back to you!