Talk:Fighter in the Wind

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Korean propaganda
This movie provides little but propaganda. Mas Oyama was a Korean Japan lover. At least he did it to survive in Japan. He used to tell people that he was born in Tokyo by Japanese parents. He went to a Japanese college after WW2. He was also taught by several Japanese Karate and Judo masters. This movie's story is nearly about all bullshit. It's even worse than Karate Baka Ichidai, the 1970s manga loosely based on his stories. -- Toytoy 03:25, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
 * This response comes too little too late, but please keep your commentary limited to discussion about actual editing of the Wikipedia article and not about your personal opinions or criticisms about the subject in question. There are plenty of websites where you can do that; this is not the place.  Cheers. --MerkurIX(이야기하세요!)(투고) 13:09, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

Controversies?
First off, kinda want to see a source.

Second, this becomes an issue of the Jewish depiction in the Passion of the Christ, just because we choose to focus on the depiction of Japanese... in Japan... during post-WWII? I don't really understand why if it's a Korean director, he -has- to compensate by purposefully including Japanese-friendly material in the film, just to remain PC. Cruelty among Japanese was about as evenly distributed as Americans during the Wild West, IMQHO.

If we wanted to discuss the critical (not just controversial) views of the film, we could do it in a more roundabout manner.Lailaiboy 16:38, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Well, it's not about being PC, it's about accuracy. While the era of Passion was a very long time ago and has issues that are debatable, Oyama's life is recent history and well-documented, and on top of the fact that people who knew him are still alive, and his style still persists, we have his own accounts of his own life. Given all of this, the movie sounds like a total ahistorical fabrication. Oyama lived in Japan for most of his life, trained as a military pilot and was a patriotic Zainichi Korean by his own admission. He was angry that Japan lost the war, and angry that his friends did not come back from missions. There was no man named Kato at the head of the JKA, which was founded in large part through the efforts of Gichin Funakoshi, one of Oyama's main karate instructors. Another being Gigo Funakoshi, Gichin's son. From the sypnosis, these two people don't even feature in the movie. And in fact, the JKA, one of the most important organizations in the history of modern karate, is some sort of gangster group that murders people. Because you certainly had extra-legal, semi-feudal karate clans that went around murdering rival instructors in post-war Japan, of course you did. We'll ignore the fact it was based in Tokyo and consisted mostly of university students like Oyama was at this time. Instead, Oyama is taught karate by a fabricated ethnically korean character, who might be based on one of Oyama's post-Funakoshi teachers, So Nei Chu. Most of this information is already in Wikipedia's own articles on the subjects.
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mas_Oyama
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Karate_Association


 * This is not a historical movie. Its plot is basically a re-write of Bruce Lee's Fist of Fury, just with a different lead character, and swapping Chinese out for Koreans. Ironic that they decided to do this with a guy who was a patriotic, naturalized Japanese citizen and cultural adoptee. From what I can tell, this movie has little to nothing to do with Oyama as we know of him, and looks like a vehicle to vent some anti-Japanese feeling on behalf of the director.203.118.166.141 (talk) 01:13, 18 April 2019 (UTC)