Fighter in the Wind (2004)

Original title

바람의 파이터

Directed by

Yang Yun-ho

Genre

martial arts film

Country

South Korea

Runtime

2h

Rated

12

Rating

7.1 of 10 from 177 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young Korean fighter goes to Japan during World War II hoping to become a pilot. Instead he takes on local martial artists one by one as he develops his own karate style.

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What happens

Fighter in the Wind (Korean: 바람의 파이터) is a 2004 South Korean martial arts action film. It is based on the Japanese book Karate Baka Ichidai which is a fictionalized account of karate competitor Choi Yeung-Eui (최영의; 崔永宜) who went to Japan during World War II to become a fighter pilot but found a very different path instead. He changed his name to Masutatsu Oyama (大山倍達) and went across the country, defeating martial artists one after another. This film concentrates on the period when he is still young, and developing his famous karate style, Kyokushin. The film was the seventh highest grossing Korean film of 2004 with 2,346,446 admissions sold nationwide. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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