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Karate Bear Fighter

Karate Bear Fighter

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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Release: 1975-12-27Runtime: 87 minRating: 6.8 (12)

Cast

Sonny Chiba

Sonny Chiba

Mas Oyama

Yutaka Nakajima

Yutaka Nakajima

Sumiko

Yumi Takigawa

Yumi Takigawa

Chiako

Masashi Ishibashi

Masashi Ishibashi

Hideo Murota

Hideo Murota

Eiji Gō

Eiji Gō

Katsumasa Uchida

Katsumasa Uchida

Gen

Mikio Narita

Mikio Narita

Ryuki

Tōru Yuri

Tōru Yuri

Kojima

Hiroshi Kondō

Hiroshi Kondō

Yamamoto Kotaro

Crew

Shigeru Okada

Shigeru Okada

Executive Producer

Kazuhiko Yamaguchi

Kazuhiko Yamaguchi

Director

Yutaka Nakajima

Yutaka Nakajima

Executive Producer

Shûshi Nakamura

Production Design

Masahiro Kakefuda

Masahiro Kakefuda

Screenplay

Ikki Kajiwara

Ikki Kajiwara

Comic Book

Osamu Tanaka

Editor

Nobuaki Nakajima

Screenplay

Shuichiro Nakamura

Art Direction

Shunsuke Kikuchi

Shunsuke Kikuchi

Music

Clips & Videos

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Clip

Original 1975 Trailer [Subtitled]

Original 1975 Trailer [Subtitled]

Ōyama takes on the bear

Ōyama takes on the bear