Karate Bear Fighter

Directed by Kazuhiko Yamaguchi

With Sonny Chiba, Yutaka Nakajima, Yumi Takigawa, Masashi Ishibashi and Hideo Murota

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.