Fighter in the Wind (2004)
2004 South Korean film directed by Yang Yun-ho
- Released
- 2004
- Country
- South Korea
- Language
- Korean
- Genre
- Martial arts film
- Director
- Yang Yun-ho
- Starring
- Yang Dong-geun, Masaya Katō, Aya Hirayama, Jeong Du-hong
- Running time
- 120 minutes
- Distributor
- Netflix
Fighter in the Wind (Korean: 바람의 파이터) is a 2004 South Korean martial arts action film. It is based on the Japanese book Karate Baka Ichidai which is a fictionalized account of karate competitor Choi Yeung-Eui (최영의; 崔永宜) who went to Japan during World War II to become a fighter pilot but found a very different path instead. He changed his name to Masutatsu Oyama (大山倍達) and went across the country, defeating martial artists one after another. This film concentrates on the period when he is still young, and developing his famous karate style, Kyokushin. The film was the seventh highest grossing Korean film of 2004 with 2,346,446 admissions sold nationwide.
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Facts from Wikidata Q483017 (CC0); quoted introduction from English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Data retrieved 2026-10-22.
Data: Wikidata (CC0 1.0); Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.