Title: Fighter in the Wind
Year: 6 August 2004 (South Korea)
Genre: Action / Biography / Drama / History / War
Country: South Korea
Runtime: 120 min.
Director: Yun-ho Yang
Writers: Hak-ki Bang & Yun-ho Yang
Cast:
Dong-kun Yang as Choi Bae-dal
Aya Hirayama as Yoko
Masaya Kato as Kato
Tae-woo Jeong as Chun-bae
Doo-hong Jung as Beom-su
Fighter in the Wind jump starts the latest Korean martial arts movie era! Bone crushing non-stop Karate excellence comes to invade your home movie theater as the story of real-life hero Choi Bae-dal offers you adrenaline-filled action that will keep you nailed to your seat. Yang Dong-geun portrays the film's protagonist a farmer boy Choi Bae-dal who grows up to practice martial arts skills to perfection. Originally planning to become a pilot, he later abandons this plan and wanders through the streets at night rescuing people in need. After his revered teacher and friend Bum-soo is slain by a gang of Japanese hoodlums Choi intensifies his training and continues to take on Karate experts all over Japan ... Popular actor Yang Dong-geun went through immense physical torture to get his body in top shape for this new big screen hit. Drawing on ideas from Bang Hakki's famous comic strip, director Yang Yun-ho turned the unbelievable life of Choi Bae-dal (1922 –1994) into a box-office breaking martial arts thriller.
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