Karate Bear Fighter

Karate Bear Fighter

1975 · 87 min · ★ 6.8 · Action, Adventure

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 Masahiro Kakefuda

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