Sensei, The

While a bullied, gay teenager (Michael O'Laskey II), who lives with his concerned mother (Gina Scalzi) in Denver, copes with prejudice in the mid-1980s and takes up martial arts to defend himself after bullies (Jonathan Camp, et al.) cruelly beat him at school in this engaging, star-studded (Keith David, Tzi Ma, et al.) albeit overly preachy 2008 film, his Japanese instructor (Diana Lee Inosanto) copes with the death of her fiancée (Louis Mandylor) from AIDs and trying to reconnect with her family (Sab Shimono, Emily Kuroda, Tim Lounibos, Bryan Frank, Michael Yama, et al.).
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