Karate Bear Fighter
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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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Part of Masutatsu Oyama Trilogy
3 films
Cast
30 people
Sonny Chiba
Mas Oyama
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Kazuhiko Yamaguchi Director · Masahiro Kakefuda Screenplay Nobuaki Nakajima Screenplay
United States release January 1, 1977 · Produced in Japan · Original title けんか空手 極真無頼拳
Production
Toei Company
Production
Japan
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Languages
Original title
けんか空手 極真無頼拳
Original language
Japanese
Spoken on screen
Japanese
Release dates
Japan · December 27, 1975
Theatrical
United States · January 1, 1977
Theatrical
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