The world after nuclear fire has already ground everyone down to nothing, Raoh just forces you to watch what it costs to say no. This is Kenshiro at his most human, stripped of the invincibility that let you enjoy the earlier films, fighting someone who isn't evil so much as inevitable. The graphic violence isn't spectacle here. It's the price of refusing to accept a world that stopped making sense. By the end, you understand why tragedy moves people more than victory ever could.

Kenshiro and Raoh's rivalry reaches its climax in this third chapter of a five-part retelling of the Hokuto no Ken story, made up of three films and two OVAs. Both men trained in Hokuto Shinken, a martial art that can kill with a single strike to the body's pressure points. Raoh believes in bringing peace to the world through sheer power, and this film retells his final battle with Kenshiro as an action adventure.