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Film / 1975
Karate Bear Fighter
Directed by
Kazuhiko Yamaguchi
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.
The story
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.
In the same saga
Masutatsu Oyama Trilogy
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Cast
Sonny ChibaMas Oyama
Yutaka NakajimaSumiko
Yumi TakigawaChiako
Masashi Ishibashi
Hideo Murota
Eiji Gō
Katsumasa UchidaGen
Mikio NaritaRyuki
Tōru YuriKojima
Hiroshi KondōYamamoto Kotaro
Motoo Noguchi
Jun Fujimaki
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