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Rating: 6 stars

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shout select martial arts Japan okinawa fixed fight gangsters revenge kidnapping orphans 1950s

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Karate for Life (1977)

Directed by Kazuhiko Yamaguchi

Action | Biography | Drama

Overview

The last of the Masutatsu Oyama trilogy. Oyama takes a job as a professional wrestler in Okinawa, but when he discovers that he is expected to take a dive, he quits in disgust. However, when a friend finds herself in desperate need of medical supplies, Oyama steps back in the ring to raise the money—but will he be able to follow the script this time?

Length 91 minutes

Actors

Sonny Chiba | Hideo Murota | Masaru Shiga | Masashi Ishibashi | Yôko Natsuki | Hiroshi Nawa | Asao Uchida | Kojiro Hongo | Takashi Hio | Hiroshi Kondô | Hirohisa Nakata | Toshiyuki Tsuchiyama

Viewing History (seen 1 time)

Viewing Notes

This is a bit rambly before starting to cohere around a group of war orphan street kids and one of their older sisters who’s an alcoholic, drug addict and prostitute. Of course Chiba’s gruff-with-a-heart-of-gold character takes them all on as his personal moral mission. There are some fun action scenes, especially the extended opening and closing action scenes, and you get to see a bit more of Okinawa than in any of the previous films also set there.

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