action adventure based on a manga biographical boxing combat comedy delinquents drama foreign friendship fugitive gangs guns historical judo male protagonist martial arts ninja prison revenge shounen sports time skip tragedy war wrestling yakuza
Rating: 6.6
A Karate-Crazy Life, Ichidai the Karate Fool, Karate Master, The Fanatical Karate Generation, 空手バカ一代
Failed kamikaze pilot Ken Asuka becomes a rough, tough hooligan who settles all of his problems with karate, until he learns about the legendary swordsman Musashi Miyamoto in the novels of Eiji Yoshikawa. Resolving to live his life like Musashi, he begins to take karate more seriously. Based on a manga by Ikki Kajiwara and Jiro Tsunoda, itself inspired by the real life of Yasunobu Oyama, the founder of the "