Karate Bearfighter (1975)
- Original title
- けんか空手 極真無頼拳
- Directed by
- Kazuhiko Yamaguchi
- Genre
- action film
- Country
- Japan
- Runtime
- 1h 27m
- Rating
- 6.8 of 10 from 13 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
Sonny Chiba plays Masutatsu Oyama, a real-life karate master. He gets into a fight with a man in a bear costume.
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What happens
Karate Bearfighter (Japanese: けんか空手 極真無頼拳, Hepburn: Kenka karate kyokushin burai ken; lit. 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. 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). 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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