Blue Eyed Samurai

In collaboration with the Hug family.

From Swiss underdog to celebrated demigod in Japan.

Martial arts legend Andy Hug was a megastar during his lifetime—especially in his second home, Japan, where he was revered and celebrated as the “blue-eyed samurai.” In 1992, he became the first non-Asian to win the full-contact karate world championship.

We trace Andy’s rise from a working-class child in rural Switzerland, driven by an unbreakable will and fighting spirit, to the very top of the world’s toughest and most successful combat sports league, K-1—culminating in his sudden, tragic, and mysterious death that shocked fans around the globe.

How could a top-fit athlete, who had just announced his retirement from sport to begin a new career as an actor, die so quickly? Was it mere coincidence—or is there more to the story? Andy Hug was a massive money-making machine for enormous events—did powerful interests have reasons to prevent his withdrawal at all costs?

A shocking truth is waiting to come to light...