Karate Bear Fighter

Directed by Kazuhiko Yamaguchi

Written by Masahiro Kakefuda, Ikki Kajiwara, Nobuaki Nakajima, Ikki Kajiwara

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.

Cast

Sonny Chiba

Mas Oyama

Yutaka Nakajima

Sumiko

Yumi Takigawa

Chiako

Masashi Ishibashi

Hideo Murota

Eiji Gō

Katsumasa Uchida

Gen

Mikio Narita

Ryuki

Tōru Yuri

Kojima

Hiroshi Kondō

Yamamoto Kotaro

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Motoo Noguchi

Jun Fujimaki