Fighter in the Wind (2004)

What an impressive work, a lesson in film making !!!One of the best movies about Martial arts ever made. Intelligent, visually beautiful, subtle love story, Excellent acting... Brutal fight scenes that capture the essence of the "Tae Kwon Do" style. A great fiction/Biopic on Choi Bae-Dal that deserves to be discovered or rediscovered!!! There was rumors of a trilogy being made... I wish we see more of these actors that delivered a great performance. An international cast.A great taste of Korean cinema which I hope will open the doors to a greater audience.

This is based on true story of a Korean man. He has been legendary in Korea for long. It responded very well to the expectation of the Koreans who have known about him. He has established a new branch of Gongsudo(Karate in Japanese). It is perhaps one of the most successful martial arts branches in the world. He shows quite typical Korean spirit through his life and the movie showed it well. Good job. i will watch it again when I have time. I recommend Americans who are interested in martial arts.Why does this have to have 10 lines? So annoying.The best part of the movie to me is when he went to apologize the black clothes sword man's wife. There he sees this boy who is about 10. Whether it is fiction or not, I think it has some touching effect. A fine martial artist must have fine mind and kind heart. Professionals know when to fear. He knows it so well and so honest about it.

A romanticised biopic of karate legend Mas Oyama (here called "Choi Baedal") this is rare gem in Korean cinema and the genre of martial arts films. As many reviewers have mentioned, the fight scenes in this movie are shorter and more brutal than the average Hong Kong action film, but this is easily forgiven as the quality of the film-making is so high. Most people watching martial arts movies will find themselves dozing through the story waiting for the next fight, but the good storytelling, quality acting, beautiful cinematography and stylish editing make the story elements of "Fighter in the Wind" a pleasure to watch.The cast all seem perfectly at home in their roles, making it easy to love or hate the characters as required. Dong-kun Yang plays Baedal with the right mix of naive idealism and hard-headed brutality. The stunning Aya Hirayama provides a likable love-interest. Taewoo Jeong is charming as Baedals cheeky con-man friend Chunbae, and Masaya Kato is suitably arrogant and superior as old-fashioned karate master Kato.This may be a film based around martial arts, but it is not a typical martial arts movie. The story features some spectacular fighting techniques from the surprisingly acrobatic Yang, but the fighting is an embellishment to an otherwise fascinating and well-told story rather than the focus of the movie.

yeah I love this movie first for its great and powerful acting by the main actor playing Choi, and as well it makes me think that Choi is a real person and everything you see in that movie is all true and actually happened around WW2. The Story is very serious, and isn't like most martial arts movies mainly because its based on a true story, which gives it its serious feel. the fighting scenes in it are so different from other martial arts movies which i find good in this movie, i think if you're karate practitioner like me, u'll get a better understanding of the different fight system in this movie as some people didn't favour it because they looked at the movie as an actually fictional martial arts story, wen its actually based on a real man and real events, a man who could eliminate him opponent in one punch and karate chop a bulls horn off. The actual man (Choi Baedel) or as his Japanese name which is Masutastu Oyama, Went through hard intense training on a mountain away from the public, all by himself for 4 years, but only stayed there for 18 months, going back to the public he fought the worlds greatest fighters some only defeating them in one single punch after there was no human opponent who could match up to his amazing fighting power, he started fighting bulls mainly defeating them by karate chopping the bulls horns, if I can remember Masutatsu Oyama fought 55 bulls in his life time, killing 11 of them and knocking the rest out. Because of his powerful karate chop/strike he was named the "God Hand" as well as the USA called him "The most toughest man in the word" This movie portrays his first part of success as the worlds toughest fighter greatest martial artist ever lived. I Say read about this man first then watch the movie to give You more more of an idea of what he has been through.