Action ·Adventure · Japan · 1975 · 1h 27m

Karate Bear Fighter

けんか空手極真無頼拳

Director

Cast

Sonny Chiba as Mas Oyama Yutaka Nakajima as Sumiko Yumi Takigawa as Chiako Masashi Ishibashi as Hideo Murota as Eiji Gō as

Crew

Osamu Tanaka — Editor Masahiro Kakefuda — Screenplay Nobuaki Nakajima — Screenplay Ikki Kajiwara — Story Shûshi Nakamura — Production Design

Synopsis

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.

Trailer

Official Trailer youtube.com

Mood & Themes

martial arts karate

Key Collaborators

Kazuhiko Yamaguchi Director Osamu Tanaka Editor Masahiro Kakefuda Screenplay Nobuaki Nakajima Screenplay Ikki Kajiwara Story Shûshi Nakamura Production Design

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