Yang Dong-geun portrays the film's protagonist a farmer boy Choi Bae-dal who grows up to practice martial arts skills
to perfection. Originally planning to become a pilot, he later abandons this plan and wanders through the streets at night
rescuing people in need. After his revered teacher and friend Bum-soo is slain by a gang of Japanese hoodlums Choi intensifies
his training and continues to take on Karate experts all over Japan ...
Popular actor Yang Dong-geun went through immense physical torture to get his body in top shape for this new big screen
hit. Drawing on ideas from Bang Hakki's famous comic strip, director Yang Yun-ho turned the unbelievable life of Choi Bae-dal
(1922 –1994) into a box-office breaking martial arts thriller.
