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Karate for Life - The Sonny Chiba Collection

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Sonny Chiba takes on the role of Mas Oyama, one of the most famous karateka in history. His career? Dojo duels by day, moonlighting as an enforcer for the mob at night. His reputation earns him a ticket to Okinawa, where he is supposed to participate in fixed matches against American fighters. His pride and determination to prove his style cause problems when he refuses to lay down. Of course, organized criminals come to collect when their winnings begin to slip away. Matters escalate and, well, if you like Sonny Chiba, you can imagine how things go from there!

This thing is a WEIRD movie. It has a bunch of wrestlers for Sonny to go up against. His partner is like the king of Judo and I have to say they could have did without him. Same actors as all of the movies. But this one is just better than the last 2 in the trilogy. The final fight is freaking awesome even with that same camera man who seems to be shaking it up and down. The best of the trilogy and some how the weirdest with these wrestling death matches.

The picture quality is good btu does have horizontal lines that do distort the picture. Still pretty good picture quality though. Percectly widescreened, good sound, very good subtitles, and some really good liner notes just like the other 2 movies.

I have to say, out of all the sonny chiba collections I have seen so far,this one is the best. This movie bascically is the last sequel to the trilogy of oyama's portrayal. Sonny chiba gives his best performance.

The movie starts off when oyama (sonny chiba)tries to prove to a secondary school that his art, which is contact karate, must be the only art that schools should be studying. Masters or sensei's already know that he is a fearless fighter. He has a rap sheet of hurting people and animals,such as bulls and bears.

He then begins to prove himself by beating the crap out one hundred students. It was funny to see the plan a way to cheat by spreading oil on the dojo floor to beat oyama, but he still overcame them. He then defeated the master and prove himself.

The story actually begins when oyama is bribed sigining a contract to fight in a wrestling match. He later finds out that the fights were fixed where he would have to loose. So he decides to quit. But comes back when he came into conflict with a sick woman that was in desperate need for medical insurance. oyama begged the contracters that they pay him in advance,so he can save the young girl. When the fight begin, the challenger tried to kill oyama. Oyama had no choice but to use karate in order to pertect himself.The contracters was angry and killed the woman that oyama was trying to save. Oyama and his judo sidekick Futysaia went on a massive rampage in a impressive climatic all out karate expo.

The movie itself is incredible. The picture quailty on this disk is great. To see a movie this old in a smooth widescreen presentation is truly remararkable.

Sosai Masutatsu Oyama.....the legendary Japanese Karate Master who revolutionized Karate forever........The Japanese Famous Anime Karate Baka Ichidai has been released in Japan for decade. The story of Kyokushin Kaikan and its history. Ever since the Anime has been released in Japan, it has gained such popularity and fame of this Mas Oyama's Karate all over the nation. Today, it is THE most popular, and most practiced Japanese Karate Style in Japan, and world wide. Mas Oyama has passed away back in 1994. This film is based on his life, and character. This complete the trilogy which are both entertaining, and now classic. However, it is NOT a biography film. The Media 8, the Japanese Kyokushin Kaikan film production has produced tons of film about Mas Oyama as well as Every single All Japan, and World Open tournament footage which is only available in Japan. The latest Asian number one hit movie "Fighter in the Wind" from Korea is the closest it can get if you would like to see the biography based movie of Mas Oyama. However, it is not 100% accurate for some reason. It plays a little politic and prejudice. After all it is a movie, and has to entertain the audience. The "Figther in the Wind" is currently only availabe in Korea, but soon I hopt to hit USA. OSU~!!!

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