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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.

Duration

1h 27m

Released

December 27, 1975

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6.8

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Cast14

  • Sonny Chiba
  • Yutaka Nakajima
  • Yumi Takigawa
  • Masashi Ishibashi
  • Hideo Murota
  • Eiji Gō
  • Katsumasa Uchida
  • Mikio Narita
  • Tōru Yuri

Part ofThe Masutatsu Oyama Trilogy

Includes Karate Bear Fighter (1975), Karate Bullfighter (1975), and Karate for Life (1977).

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