Karate Bear Fighter
Seen it?1975 | 87 min | Action, Adventure
Monday Morning Maybeearly ratingWhy it’s a Monday Morning Maybe
With almost no lasting buzz and soft box office, this one could be a tough watch. Keep your phone handy.
Based on critics, audiences, awards, box office and buzz. Details below.Is it for you?
- Who'll love it
- Aimed squarely at anyone who appreciates a well-choreographed fight and people who like their stories at full throttle. The fight choreography is a big part of the appeal. Liked Beast? This is a good next one.
- The mood
- Exciting.
- The pace
- Wastes no time getting going, at 1 hr 27 min. An easy one to fit in on a school night.
- What might put you off
- It's in Japanese, so expect subtitles (or a dub).
- Made in 1975: an older pace and style.
- Skip it if you prefer quiet, talky stories.
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.
How it earned its rating
- CriticsNot counted
Not enough reviews on record yet
- AudiencesNot counted
Not measured yet: not enough ratings
- AwardsNot counted
No major awards or nominations
- Reach & staying powerBelow par
Streaming release that reached a small audience so far; still draws a steady audience long after release
- Buzz & cultural impactWeak
About 2K people sought it out in the past year
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Cast & crew
Directed by Kazuhiko Yamaguchi
- Sonny ChibaMas Oyama
- Yutaka NakajimaSumiko
- Yumi TakigawaChiako
- Masashi Ishibashi
- Hideo Murota
- Eiji Gō
- Katsumasa UchidaGen
- Mikio NaritaRyuki
- Tōru YuriKojima
- Hiroshi KondōYamamoto Kotaro