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The Street Fighter is a japonais film of genre Thriller directed by Shigehiro Ozawa released in USA on 1 november 1974 with Sonny Chiba

The Street Fighter (1974)

Gekitotsu! Satsujin ken

The Street Fighter
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Released in USA 1 november 1974
Length 1h31
Directed by
OriginJapon
Genres Thriller,    Martial arts,    Action,    Crime,    Martial arts
Rating63% 3.159273.159273.159273.159273.15927

The Street Fighter (激突！殺人拳, Gekitotsu! Satsujin Ken), literally Clash, Killer Fist!, is a Japanese martial arts film released in 1974 and produced by Toei Company Ltd. It was released in the US by New Line Cinema and became one of the first films to be a commercial success for the distributor. It is notable as the first film to receive an X-rating in the United States solely for violence. In the UK it was originally released as Kung Fu Streetfighter, presumably to avoid confusion with the Charles Bronson movie Hard Times which was initially released as The Streetfighter in the UK.

The Street Fighter inspired two sequels, Return of the Street Fighter and The Street Fighter's Last Revenge. Additionally, the film Sister Street Fighter and its sequels is a spin-off series of The Street Fighter. There was another spin-off entitled Kozure Satsujin Ken, which was brought to the US by a different company under the title Karate Warriors. The video game The Darkness has the entire movie available, to watch, on any of the in-game TVs.

The film is in the public domain and is available for free download at the Internet Archive.

Synopsis

The film begins as Takuma (Terry) Tsurugi meets the condemned murderer Tateki (Junjo) Shikenbaru while disguised as a Buddhist monk. Tsuguri applies his "oxygen coma punch" to Junjo, causing him to collapse just before he can be executed. As Junjo is rushed to a hospital, Tsurugi and his sidekick Rakuda (Ratnose) ambush the ambulance and free him. As Tsurugi and Ratnose watch the incident on the news, Junjo's brother Gijun and sister Nachi arrive and plead for more time to pay for Tsurugi's help. Outraged, Tsurugi refuses and attacks the siblings. Gijun accidentally kills himself when Tsurugi dodges his flying kick, causing him to go out of a window, and Nachi is sold into sexual slavery through Renzo Mutaguchi.

Actors

Sonny Chiba

(Takuma Tsurugi)Yutaka Nakajima

(Sarai Chuayut)Etsuko Shihomi

(Nachi Shikenbaru)Kenji Kazama

(Senkaku Kan)Jyunichi Haruta

(Kwok Gwai-Lung)Seizō Fukumoto

(Woo Sin-Gung)
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The Street Fighter series

The Street Fighter
The Street Fighter
(1974) Return of the Street Fighter
Return of the Street Fighter
(1974) Sister Street Fighter
Sister Street Fighter
(1974) Sister Street Fighter: Hanging by a Thread
Sister Street Fighter: Hanging by a Thread
(1974) The Street Fighter's Last Revenge
The Street Fighter's Last Revenge
(1974) The Return of Sister Street Fighter
The Return of Sister Street Fighter
(1975) Sister Street Fighter: Fifth Level Fist
Sister Street Fighter: Fifth Level Fist
(1976)

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