page_title: No Retreat, No Surrender
section_title: Cast
hierarchical_section_title: No Retreat, No Surrender / Cast
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Jean-Claude Van Damme et Darcy LaPier au festival de Cannes English: Jean-Claude Van Damme and Darcy LaPier at the Cannes Film Festival
context_page_description: 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.
  The film was written by Keith W. Strandberg after being contracted by Ng See-yuen, the owner of Seasonal Film Corporation, to write a script for them, despite having never written a script beforehand. Van Damme was cast in the film and caused problems on the set for continually physically contacting other actors and stuntmen during the fight scenes even after director Yuen told him not to. Upon release, the film received negative reviews, focusing on the story which many critics found too similar to the film The Karate Kid.
context_section_description: Kurt McKinney as Jason Stillwell
  Jean-Claude van Damme as Ivan Kraschinsky
  J. W. Fails as R. J. Madison
  Kathie Sileno as Kelly Reilly
  Tai Chung Kim as the ghost of Bruce Lee
  Kent Lipham as Scott
  Ron Pohnel as Ian Reilly
  Dale Jacoby as Dean Ramsay
  Peter “Sugarfoot” Cunningham as Frank Peters
  Timothy D. Baker as Tom Stillwell
  Gloria Marziano as Mrs. Stillwell
  Paul Oswell as Trevor
caption: Jean-Claude van Damme was cast as the Soviet villain Ivan Kraschinsky.
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