Watch the Shadows Dance, also known as Nightmaster, is a 1988 action film directed by Mark Joffe and starring Tom Jennings, Nicole Kidman, Joanne Samuel, Vince Martin and Craig Pearce.
[2] A tight-knit group of high school students studies karate with Steve Beck (Vince Martin), a former soldier in an unnamed war.
One of their fellow students, Guy Duncan (Craig Pearce), is a drugdealer who lurks on the periphery of their classes with Beck and at the bar.
Robby Mason (Tom Jennings) is Beck's prize pupil, and the two are training intensively for a televised kickboxing tournament.
Beck is the only surviving member of his platoon, and he believes that he has stayed alive through the traits of discipline and determination that he is passing on to his students.