Baramui Fighter (2004)

Director:

Yun-ho Yang

Writers:

Hak-ki Bang (comic book)
Yun-ho Yang (writer)

Release Date:

6 August 2004 (South Korea)

Genre:

Action | Biography | Drama

Plot:

Plot Keywords:

Dojang | Gun | Boy | Fight | Taekkyon

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Dong-kun Yang	...	Choi Bae-dal
Aya Hirayama	...	Yoko
Masaya Kato	...	Kato
Tae-woo Jeong	...	Chun-bae
Doo-hong Jung	...	Beom-su
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
David Joseph Anselmo	...	James's friend
Michael Frederick Arnold	...	Military Police
Han-garl Lee	...	Miwa
Seong-min Park	...	Ryoma

Also Known As:

Fighter in the Wind (International: English title)

Runtime:

South Korea:120 min

Country:

South Korea

Language:

Japanese | Korean

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Germany:16 | Malaysia:U | Singapore:PG | South Korea:12 | UK:15

Trivia:

Korean pop singer and actor Rain (IV) was initially cast for the lead role of Choi Bae-dal, but had to pull out due to scheduling conflicts.

Quotes:

Chun-bae: Justice without power is empty and power without justice in only violence.

Movie Connections:

Version of Kenka karate kyokushinken (1975)

Brilliant!

I believe that this is one of the best movies to come out Korea in along time. It has got heart and soul and you can see that the director and the cast really care about bringing to life this story of one of the greatest martial artist in history. However despite how much I enjoyed this film there were a few flaws.

First some emotional parts in the story moves to fast and there are scenes f Korean and Japanese customs (such as shaving his eyebrows) that we don't understand and we are not given an explanation to. Another thing is that some moments of this movie are incredibly exxagerated and some are just made up for the movie. I don't understand why they did this since Oyama Mas had an amazing life without all the made up scenes.

Last is the action, I hear that most people didn't like the action because the fight scenes were short and brutal. However because I do martial arts and know a lot about Oyama Mas I believe that this was the right way for the movie. This is because Oyama never did any soft kungfu which you see in most movies these days, He did hard taekwondo and later created kyokushin karate and he always tried to finch his opponent with one punch. combat is not a dance where you can predict each other movements.