Fighter in the Wind

Choi Bae-dal (Yang Dong-geun) leaves Korea for Japan at the close of World War II, meaning to become a fighter pilot. The plan goes nowhere, and he starts walking the country instead, taking on martial artists one after another and building the style that will become Kyokushin karate. Yang Yun-ho keeps the camera close to Bae-dal as he stands in the open, a young man in a worn gi, fists raised in front of him.