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. 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-dals fighting spirit and says that if Bae-dal can beat him with his inferior foreign fighting style (Taekkyon), he will release them. 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. Stowing away to Japan in order to join their air force, Bae-dals first experience of the country is when a con-man tries to steal his money.īae-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. The film was the seventh highest grossing Korean film of 2004 with 2,346,446 admissions sold nationwide. This film concentrates on the period when he is still young, and developing his famous karate style, Kyokushin. He changed his name to Masutatsu Oyama () and went across the country, defeating martial artists one after another. It is based on the Japanese book Karate Baka Ichidai which is a fictionalized account of karate competitor Choi Yeung-Eui (, ) who went to Japan during World War II to become a fighter pilot but found a very different path instead. Find sources: Fighter in the Wind news newspapers books scholar JSTOR ( December 2009 ) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message ).
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