Karate Bearfighter

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]

Karate Bearfighter
Film poster for Karate Bearfighter.
Directed byKazuhiko Yamaguchi
StarringSonny Chiba
Jun Fujimaki
Yumi Takigawa
Yutaka Nakajima
Music byShunsuke Kikuchi
Distributed byToei Company
Release date
  • December 27, 1975 (1975-12-27)
Running time
87 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese

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.

Cast

References
  1. "けんか空手 極真無頼拳". Kinema Junpo. Retrieved 31 December 2020.
  2. "けんか空手 極真無頼拳". 東映. Retrieved 31 December 2020.
  3. "けんか空手 極真無頼拳". ザテレビジョン. Retrieved 31 December 2020.
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