Easily defeating Kato's henchmen, Oyama then faces a final showdown with Kato himself. Dressing in his weathered gi once again, Oyama treks out to the countryside location where Kato is waiting for him. Returning to the city, Oyama finds that Kato's martial arts association has threatened his own family (Kato is not involved) and demanded a challenge between Kato and Oyama. The wife asks Oyama to take back his uniform and become the best fighter in Japan. Although initially angry and unaccepting of Oyama's offer, after fulfilling the son's wish of being carried to the top of the nearby mountain to view the sunrise, he eventually convinces them that he is a man of honour and not a violent thug. Oyama surrenders his uniform to the wife, vowing to never again fight in martial art duels. Learning that the man he killed had a wife and son, Oyama feels a great deal of guilt for his actions and tracks down the family to apologise and offer to work for them to make up for killing the father of the household. When the organization sends one of his followers to challenge and kill Oyama, the agent is instead killed by Oyama. Oyama explains to Yoko that, although he is scared of dying, he is more scared of living as a cripple, and this is why he is willing to sacrifice anything to win. Nevertheless, Oyama continues to defeat every fighter that Japan has to offer, including competitors in karate, judo, ninjutsu, aikido, and kobudo, becoming a sensation in the Japanese media. Kato is hugely offended that a foreigner would not only try to learn Japanese martial arts, but would consider himself worthy to beat Japanese fighters. He defeats every fighter in the dojo - often with only a single strike.Īs word of his notoriety spreads, Oyama's actions come to the attention of the head of the Japan Karate Association - the former Air Force camp commander Kato. Wearing his ragged karate gi and looking like a cave-man with his unkempt appearance, Oyama challenges the first dojo he passes. Returning from the mountains, Bae-dal takes a Japanese name: Masutatsu Oyama, and sets about challenging the best fighters Japan has to offer. Bae-dal, vowing to never again lose a fight, retreats to the mountains where, living in his karate gi, he trains day and night running in the mountains, lifting tree trunks and using makeshift training equipment to harden his body and fighting spirit through austerity. The fight ends abruptly for Bae-dal when he is knocked unconscious by a blow to the head. When Bum-soo is killed by local gangsters, the Koreans from the compound vow revenge and attack the Japanese gangs. One of the women he protects is the beautiful Yoko ( Aya Hirayama), with whom he strikes up a romantic relationship. His success at protecting the women makes him something of a local hero, although his real identity is not known. Meanwhile, Bae-dal has taken to working as a rickshaw driver, honing his fighting skills by defending Japanese women from the rapacious advances of American servicemen. After some persuasion, he agrees to teach Bae-dal some of his more sophisticated fighting style. Bum-soo invites Bae-dal back to the circus where he, and many fellow Korean immigrants, work and where he is attempting to build a decent standard of living for his countrymen. His ordeal is ended by the intervention of Bum-soo ( Jung Doo-hong), a martial arts expert from his home town who had also emigrated to Japan. When local gangsters try to take protection money from Chun-bae, Bae-dal tries to defend him but is beaten up and humiliated by the gangsters. Later, Bae-dal is found helping Chun-bae to run a pachinko stall in a Japanese market place. The two men fight with Kato easily defeating Bae-dal, but an American attack on the airforce base allows Bae-dal and Chun-bae to escape. Having mistreated the two Koreans, he is amused by Bae-dal's fighting spirit and says that if Bae-dal can beat him with his inferior "foreign" fighting style (Taekkyon), he will release them. The commander in charge of the camp is a pompous imperialist called Kato ( Masaya Kato). With their different motives: Bae-dal driven by desire for action and Chun-bae needing to escape from some gangsters, the two Koreans stow away in a truck to the air force training camp. Bae-dal discovers that the man is a fellow Korean called Chun-bae ( Jung Tae-woo), who has survived the harsh treatment of Koreans in Japan by turning to petty crime. Stowing away to Japan in order to join their air force, Bae-dal's first experience of the country is when a con-man tries to steal his money. At the tail-end of World War II, Choi Bae-dal is a young Korean man who longs to be able to fly fighter planes.
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