No Retreat, No Surrender
No Retreat, No Surrender is a 1986 American martial arts film directed by Corey Yuen in his American directorial debut, starring Kurt McKinney and Jean-Claude van Damme. The film was released in the United States on May 2, 1986. McKinney performs as Jason Stillwell, an American teenager who learns martial arts from the spirit of Bruce Lee. Stillwell uses these lessons to defend his martial arts dojo against Soviet martial artist Ivan Kraschinsky (Van Damme). It is the first film in the "No Retreat, No Surrender" franchise.