When Bum-soo is killed by local gangsters, the Koreans from the compound vow revenge and attack the Japanese gangs. One of the women he protects is the beautiful Yoko ( Aya Hirayama), with whom he strikes up a romantic relationship. His success at protecting the women makes him something of a local hero, although his real identity is not known. Meanwhile, Bae-dal has taken to working as a rickshaw driver, honing his fighting skills by defending Japanese women from the rapacious advances of American servicemen. After some persuasion, he agrees to teach Bae-dal some of his more sophisticated fighting style. Bum-soo invites Bae-dal back to the circus where he, and many fellow Korean immigrants, work and where he is attempting to build a decent standard of living for his countrymen. His ordeal is ended by the intervantion of Bum-soo ( Jung Doo-hong), a martial arts expert from his home town who had also emigrated to Japan. 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.
Later, Bae-dal is found helping Chun-bae to run a pachinko stall in a Japanese market place. 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-dal's fighting spirit and says that if Bae-dal can beat him with his inferior "foreign" fighting style, he will release them. The commander in charge of the camp is a pompous imperialist called Kato ( Kato Masaya). 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. Bae-dal discovers that the man is a fellow Korean called Chun-bae ( Jeong Tae-woo), who has survived the harsh treatment of Koreans in Japan by turning to petty crime. Stowing away to Japan in order to join their air force, Bae-dal's first experience of the country is when a con-man tries to steal his money. This film concentrates on the period when he is still young, and developing his famous karate style, Kyokushin.Īt the tail-end of World War II, Choi Bae-dal is a young Korean man who longs to be able to fly fighter planes. He changed his name to Masutatsu Oyama (大山倍達) and went across the country, defeating martial artists one after another. It is based on the Japanese comic book " Karate Baka Ichidai" which is a fictionalised account of karate competitor Choi Yeung-Eui (최영의) who went to Japan after World War II to become a fighter pilot but found a very different path instead. "Fighter in the Wind" ( Korean: 바람의 파이터) is a 2004 South Korean film. Caption = Poster for "Fighter in the Wind"
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