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Karate Bear Fighter

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Duration

1h 27m

Release

27 Dec 1975

Country

Japan

Language

Japanese

Overview

Masutatsu Oyama is recruited by his former Army friend to work for a crew of gangsters, but when they kill both his girlfriend and his best friend, Oyama flees away to a small town where he both learns lessons in martial arts philosophy from a wandering master and helps a young boy take on a challenge to fight a ferocious captured bear to win money for the boy's injured father.

Plot

This movie is based on the true life story of a Korean fighter named Choi Bae-dal (who later changed his name to Masutatsu Oyama), the founder of Kyokushin Karate in Japan.

Cast

Shin'ichi ChibaJun FujimakiEiji Gô

Ratings

Internet Movie Database: 6.6/10

Details

Director

Kazuhiko Yamaguchi

Writers

Jôya KagemaruIkki KajiwaraMasahiro Kakefuda

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