Masutatsu Oyama is recruited by his former Army friend to work for a crew of gangsters, but when they kill both his girlfriend and his best friend, Oyama flees away to a small town where he both learns lessons in martial arts philosophy from a wandering master and helps a young boy take on a challenge to fight a ferocious captured bear to win money for the boy's injured father.
Unfortunately the movie Karate Bear Fighter is not yet available on HBO Max.
| Production | Yutaka Nakajima | Executive Producer |
| Directing | Kazuhiko Yamaguchi | Director |
| Production | Shigeru Okada | Executive Producer |
| Writing | Ikki Kajiwara | Story |
| Sound | Shunsuke Kikuchi | Music |
| Crew | Yoshio Nakajima | Cinematography |
| Editing | Osamu Tanaka | Editor |
| Writing | Masahiro Kakefuda | Screenplay |
| Writing | Nobuaki Nakajima | Screenplay |
| Art | Shûshi Nakamura | Production Design |
| Art | Shuichiro Nakamura | Art Direction |
| Writing | Ikki Kajiwara | Comic Book |
