The read
It runs a compact 1h 27m.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb6.6/10
13 audience votes
Key crew
- Kazuhiko YamaguchiDirector
- Masahiro KakefudaScreenplay
- Nobuaki NakajimaScreenplay
Cast
- Sonny ChibaMas Oyama
- Yutaka NakajimaSumiko
- Yumi TakigawaChiako
- Masashi IshibashiCast
- Hideo MurotaCast
- Eiji GōCast
- Katsumasa UchidaGen
- Mikio NaritaRyuki
- Tōru YuriKojima
- Hiroshi KondōYamamoto Kotaro
- Motoo NoguchiCast
- Jun FujimakiCast