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Summary: Back in the antihero heyday...
Review: As far as I know, this was the first kung fu movie whose main character was a jerk, a far far FAR from admirable guy who used his martial arts to help out crime synidcates and other thugs. Terry Tsurugi is most loyal to whoever has the biggest bank account. The movie opens with him helping a guy break out of prison because he was hired by the guy's brother and sister. When Terry kills the brother and sells the sister into a prostution ring, the convict comes after him for revenge. There are lots of other plots twists as this crazy movie throws in basically everything but the kitchen sink. Some of the fight scenes are really dumb and cheesy, but what do you expect??? REALISM??? GO SOMEWHERE ELSE!!!! This is a fun ride of a flick.
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Summary: ONE OF THE GREATEST MARTIAL ARTISTS OF OUR TIME
Review: IN THIS EXTREMELY VIOLENT MARTIAL ARTS CLASSIC, A MAN REFUSES TO EXCEPT A JOB BY THE YAKUZA TO KIDNAP AN OIL HEIRESS, BUT WHEN HE FLEES WITH THE HEIRESS, SHE IS KIDNAPPED BY A GANG HIRED BY A RIVAL OIL COMPANY. WARNING; VERY VERY BRUTAL FIGHTS ARE IN THIS MOVIE, SO DON'T LET YOUR KIDS SEE IT. OTHER THAN THAT, A VERY ENJOYABLE MARTIAL ARTS CLASSIC THAT STARS, IN MY OPINION, THE MOST UNDERRATED MARTIAL ARTIST OF OUR TIME. THIS MOVIE PROVES THAT THERE'S MORE TO THE MARTIAL ARTS GENRE THAN JUST BRUCE LEE AND JACKIE CHAN. THIS MOVIE IS SO VIOLENT, THAT THIS WAS ACTUALLY RATED X WHEN IT WAS RELEASED. BUT, SCENES WERE TRIMMED FOR AN R RATED VERSION, WHICH IS ON VIDEO. THIS MOVIE WAS FOLLOWED BY 3 SEQUELS.
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Summary: Sonny Chiba knows his [stuff]!!!
Review: Notorious for being an especially gory kung fu flick, THE STREET FIGHTER, by today's standard's, isn't to horrible gore-wise. It centers around a mean-sprited kung fu fighter who agrees to help protect a girl from mobsters after her inheritance. Chiba is clearly the Bruce Lee of Japan and this film, along with it's three sequels, is a milestone in the history of kung fu films. Just don't try to think too much about all the characters arriving to the recscue without knowing where to go.
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Summary: Street Fighter: One Of The All-Time Best Martial Arts Films
Review: Often confused with the 1994 martial arts video game movie starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, this martial arts cult classic was one of the first movies in cinematic history to earn an "X" rating because of violence. Chiba is kung-fu assassin, Terry Sugury, who is hired by the Yakuza for an extortion plot. Using a series of excessively graphic moves, Terry takes out all comers. If you enjoyed the early films of Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan, you will probably want to check out Chiba, who many consider to be their Japanese equivilent. This film was followed by three other sequels though none quite live up to the action in this one. This one is right up there with "Enter The Dragon" as one of the very best martial arts films of all-time.
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Summary: Classic karate movie
Review: Sonny Chiba is great. As the title suggests the fighting is direct and to the point. Parts of it are dark and hard to see - the showdown on the ship at night - but the fight scenes on the whole are very well done and realistic. A friend told me he saw parts of the Go-Ju form Sae Um Chun on it, I need to see it again to look for that. This is one of the early classics of its genre.
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Summary: Entertaining Martial Arts Thriller.
Review: Terry Tsuguri (Sonny Chiba) is a tough mercenary, who is also the master of Martial Arts. Terry is being hired by the mob to spring a Convicted Killer from Prison. But once the job is done, His Criminal Employers renege on thier Payment. Terry takes on the Mob and he becomes a One-Man Army as he wants his reclaim, what is his.Directed by Shigehiro Ozawa made a entertaining Martial Arts movie that become a Cult Classic. There's a good music score by Toshiaki Tsuhima and Excellent Cinematography by Ken Tsukakoshi. Chiba is Perfect in the Lead. DVD's has an good non-anamorphic Widescreen (2.35:1) transfer and an fine Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono Sound. The DVD also has the Original Japanese Language Track. People are into Martial Arts films will love this film. DVD is the Original Theatrical Version. Action-Scope. Grade:A-.
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Summary: beautifully shot 70's genre action!
Review: the street fighter is a really cool action movie. its dubbed and was made in 1974 and by todays standards its not as violent as it was back then but it still has its share. i bought this movie before i actually saw it and i was not dissappointed. i bought this for 4 bucks and it was 1 of the best buys i have made on movies.
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Summary: That punch in the head must have done something to my ears.
Review: The Streetfighter is a fun diversion for Kung Fu movie fans. It, however, isn't as amazingly gory as its fans tell you. True, it is a lot bloodier than most 70s martial arts movies, but it is not even close to the level of Story of Rikkie (sp). Sure, blood and guts aren't the only thing in a movie, but they are often used as a selling point for this one. Asside from that, the story is good and the main character is interesting and rates very high on the cool-o-meter. He truely is one bad mother ******. WIth a good plot, great fights and very cool hero, this DVD would have gotten 4 stars from me, but the sound is TERRIBLE. I had to crank the sound on my tv ALL THE WAY UP and I still had trouble hearing the dialog and there was a very VHS like hiss throughout the movie If you like a good brawl movie and have the hearing of a fruit bat, you will surely enjoy this cult classic. I did, at least what I could hear of it. Still, you can't complain too much when it was only ....
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Summary: Sonny Chiba kicks... and takes names. Part 1
Review: When I first heard of the Street Fighter I was skeptical. I saw this DVD and it was cool. It had Soony Chiba as a hired help named Terry Tsurugi. When Terry finds out that he was used by the Yakuza(Japanese Mafia), they try to stop him at all costs. Easier said than done, Terry kicks the living daylightrs out of every body that gets in his way even knoking out one guy's teeth,ripping out a guy's viocebox, and tearing off another guy's balls. To put it plainly Chiba is a more vicious Bruce Lee. The visions of him ripping his enemy's limbs off are cool. He teaches the Yakuza a lesson they won't sure forget. No gang can take on Terry and survive. Beat him if you can, survive if he lets you, which he rarely does. This is not for the weak of heart. Fans of Bruce Lee will surely become fans of Sonny Chiba. I highly recomend this movie. The origional Street Fighter was rated X when it was first realesed in the U.S.
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Summary: Over The Top Violence Masks Poor Production Quality
Review: When THE STREET FIGHTER was first released in the United States in 1976, no one had ever heard of its martial arts star, Sonny Chiba. Comparisons with Bruce Lee were inevitable, but whereas Lee made his mark with rapid punches and kicks, Chiba made his with an odd mixture of deep breathing and straight-ahead jabs and eye-piercing pokes. The plot is minimal: Chiba is a free-lance hired thug who is paid to spring another thug who is set for execution. Chiba does this, but his employers refuse to pay off, with predicably bloody consequences for them. Instead, they offer him yet another deal to safeguard the pretty daughter of an industrialist. At this point, the plot becomes a blurry mess in which cause and effect become locked in a closed loop. I simply could not make sense out of who was doing what to whom. About all that I was sure of was that Chiba, with his lust for blood, was one real bad dude who not only defeated his opponents but also maimed them. Part of my problem, I think, was not due solely to an unintelligible script, but also to a sound track that muffled each word of dialogue that was the verbal equivalent of an equally muffled script. The power of THE STREET FIGHTER is due only to the graphic mayhem sequences that show how Chiba's punching bags spit out sugar cubes for teeth and tomato sauce for blood. There was one truly innovative scene in which Chiba punches downward into some luckless opponent's skull so that the viewer is treated to an X-ray slide of that fist bashing its way into the cranium. THE STREET FIGHTER was sufficiently different from its contemporaries in that it set a new standard for mayhem that Quentin Tarantino found bravura enough to later emulate in his homage to the chop-socky genre with KILL BILL. A quarter century perspective between my first viewing of THE STREET FIGHTER and now suggests that this film is remarkable only in that it opened new pathways for what was even then the start of a slowly stagnating cycle of cinematic vengeance.
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