No Retreat, No Surrender is a 1986 Hong Kong-American martial arts film written and directed by Corey Yuen, and starring Kurt McKinney, Jean-Claude Van Damme and Tai Chung Kim. The film is about the American youth Jason Stillwell (Kurt McKinney) who learns martial arts from the spirit of Bruce Lee. Stillwell uses these lessons to defend his martial arts dojo against the Russian Ivan Kraschinsky (Jean-Claude Van Damme).
No Retreat, No Surrender was written by Keith W. Strandberg after being contacted by the owner of Seasonal Film Corporation Ng See-yuen to write a script for them, despite having never written a script beforehand. Jean-Claude Van Damme was cast in the film and caused problems on the set for continually physically contacting other actors during the fight scenes even after directory Yuen told him not too. On it's relesae, the film received negative reviews focusing on the story that two reviewers found was too similar to the film The Karate Kid (1984).