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Karate Bear Fighter

Karate Bear Fighter

19756.81h 27m

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.

Directed by Kazuhiko Yamaguchi
Written by Ikki Kajiwara, Masahiro Kakefuda, Nobuaki Nakajima
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Top Cast

Sonny Chiba

Sonny Chiba

Mas Oyama

Yutaka Nakajima

Yutaka Nakajima

Sumiko

Yumi Takigawa

Yumi Takigawa

Chiako

Masashi Ishibashi

Masashi Ishibashi

Hideo Murota

Hideo Murota

Eiji Gō

Eiji Gō

Katsumasa Uchida

Katsumasa Uchida

Gen

Mikio Narita

Mikio Narita

Ryuki

Tōru Yuri

Tōru Yuri

Kojima

Hiroshi Kondō

Hiroshi Kondō

Yamamoto Kotaro

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Themes & Keywords

martial artskarate

About Karate Bear Fighter

Karate Bear Fighter is a action, adventure film released in 1975 exploring themes of martial arts, karate. Directed by Kazuhiko Yamaguchi, it stars Sonny Chiba, Yutaka Nakajima, Yumi Takigawa. 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.

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