Karate for Life

Name: Karate for Life
Released: 1977
Rating: 36.64
Cast: Shin'ichi Chiba, Kôjirô Hongô, Masaru Shiga, Hideo Murota

1977

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1h 31m

This movie is based on the true life story of a Korean fighter named Choi Bae-dal (who later changed his name to Masutatsu Oyama), the founder of Kyokushin Karate in Japan. (imdb)

AKAs:

Karate Baka-Ichidai, Sora-te baka ichidai

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Japan

Language:

Japanese

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Karate for Life

1977

Action

1h 31m

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TheDenizen

Rated 08 Jan 2013

The final installment of this Mas Oyama trilogy features Sonny Chiba getting involved with a shady pro wrestling promoter and his gangster buddies in Okinawa. No one bothers to tell him the matches are staged, with predictably disastrous results. Chiba eventually kills Masashi Ishibashi (again), and fights the final baddie in a hall of mirrors ripped straight out of Enter the Dragon. Not bad, but it wastes a ton of time on a sappy subplot about a girl with tuberculosis and a bunch of orphans.

Rated 08 Jan 2013

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