Karate Bearfighter
1975 Japanese film
- December 27, 1975 (1975-12-27)
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Karate Bearfighter (けんか空手 極真無頼拳, Kenka karate kyokushin burai ken, literally "Fighting Karate-Brutal Ultimate Truth Fist") is a Japanese martial arts film made by Toei Company in 1975 and directed by Kazuhiko Yamaguchi. It is the second installment of a trilogy of films based on the manga Karate Baka Ichidai (literal title: "A Karate-Crazy Life") by Ikki Kajiwara, Jiro Tsunoda and Jōya Kagemaru.[1][2][3]
Sonny Chiba reprises his role from Champion of Death as Masutatsu Oyama, the historical founder of Kyokushin karate in Japan (Oyama makes a cameo appearance in the film as well).[3] Chiba had studied martial arts under the real-life Oyama for several years. True to the film's title, at one point in the course of the narrative he battles a "bear", actually a human actor in a bear costume.
Plot
Cast
- Sonny Chiba as Mas Oyama
- Eiji Gô
- Yutaka Nakajima
References
External links
- Japanese Movie Database
- Karate Bearfighter at IMDb
- Karate Bearfighter at AllMovie
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Films directed by Kazuhiko Yamaguchi
- Wandering Ginza Butterfly (1972)
- Wandering Ginza Butterfly 2: She-Cat Gambler (1972)
- Sister Street Fighter (1974)
- Sister Street Fighter: Hanging by a Thread (1974)
- The Return of the Sister Street Fighter (1975)
- Champion of Death (1975)
- Karate Bearfighter (1975)
- Karate Warriors (1976)
- Circuit no Ōkami (1977)
- Karate for Life (1977)
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