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Summary: This is the review that you been looking for!!!! READ IT!!!!
Review: At LAST!!The full review of this DVD is here, NOW LET'S GET STARTED!!This DVD contains, interactive menus, five DVDs, trivia games, DVD dictionary and Sonny Chiba's bio. The Movies: 1- Street Fighter: Widescreen (in big black boards). The only movie with the optional japanese language track. This is the best film of the ten movies. High quality of the 70's. 2- Legend of the eight Samurai: Standar. The worst movie ever except for the beautifull chick princess, Sonny Chiba is not the main character and poor special effects and fight choreoghrapics. Low quality of the 80's. 3- Return of the Street Fighter: Widescreen (in big black boards). A great sequel to Street Fighter. High quality of the 70's. 4- The Bodyguard: Standar. Not a very good movie. Medium quality of the 70's. 5- Street Fighter last Revenge: Widescreen (in big black boards). A superb sequel to Street fighter. High quality of the 70's. 6- Shogun's Ninja: Widescreen (in small black boards). Good movie but Sonny Chiba is not the main character. Medium quality of the 80's. 7- Sister Street Fighter: Widescreen (in big black boards). Good movie but Sonny Chiba is not the main character. High quality of the 70's. 8- Dragon Princes: Standar. SO-SO movie and Sonny Chiba is not the main character. Medium quality of the 70's. 9- Samurai Reincarnation: Standar. Bad movie and terrible cinematoghraphic but Sonny Chiba is the main character. Low quality of the 80's. 10- Karate Warriors: Standar. Terrible cameras but is the only movie that Sonny Chiba use the slow motion in his fights and he also use the sword witch it make him more cool. Extremly low quality of the 70's. MY name is Shingetta and my e-mail is [email address]BR>If thera are any questions then I will be glad to answer them.
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Summary: For 17 bucks this is one heck of a deal!!
Review: For the money spent on this its totally worth it, first off for the price of one dvd you get at least one amazing movie right off the back, The Streetfighter. The Streetfighter is Sonny's best movie and for good reason. The rest of the movies are typical karate/samurai movies, not the greatest, but I sure enjoyed them.
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Summary: For 17 bucks this is one heck of a deal!!
Review: For the money spent on this its totally worth it, first off for the price of one dvd you get at least one amazing movie right off the back, The Streetfighter. The Streetfighter is Sonny's best movie and for good reason. The rest of the movies are typical karate/samurai movies, not the greatest, but I sure enjoyed them.
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Summary: Unmissable martial arts classics
Review: STREETFIGHTER - possibly the greatest martial arts film ever conceived, Sonny Chiba is the bad ass to end all bad asses and this film is a perfect example of what makes so many people (including, and most famously, Quentin Tarantino) love him. You'll barely have to sit through ten minutes of exposition before you get to the next fight scene, and, considering their raw, undeniable quality, ten minutes is nothing. Ending almost perfectly with a gorgeous on-the-brink-of-disaster final fight - in the rain no less! - this is practically non-stop greatness. A+ RETURN OF THE STREETFIGHTER - lacking any kind of real originality or fresh ideas (it's basically a remake of the first) ROTS still is a primo martial arts film with some of the most awesomely visceral fight scenes ever, including a massive fight which pits Chiba against twenty-something hard-as-nails, and armed, gang members. B+ STREETFIGHTER'S LAST REVENGE / SISTER STREETFIGHTER - where the first two films tried to hold onto some kind of plot (however cliched) and sense of reality (even if that did involve being able to jump off cliffs, into shallow water, and survive) these two films (filmed simultaneously, I believe, which would account for Chiba's only having occasional, but always cool, cameos in SISTER) have no grip on anything. In LR Chiba is suddenly turned into a kind of M:I/007-style agent (when the heck did that happen?) with access to a mini-cupboard full of gadgets, including face masks, while in SSF a random woman, who had now taken over Chiba's position (why?), is charged with foiling a drug scheme involving cocaine-laced wigs (I can't decide whether this is the greatest idea in the world, or the worst). LR gets points knocked off for turning Chiba into a vaguely uncool caricature (but, it still is Chiba) but both feature, again, some class action fight sequences, including one in SSF, where the lead character is killed off, only to have her be brought back a couple of scenes later. "I thought you were dead" "Nope". C+ / B --------------------------------- PICTURE: although it's not the best in the world, it's fine, you can tell what's going on and the prints haven't aged that badly SOUND: only English dubs are available (the Japanese language track for SF has no English subtitles) they're passable and seem to keep the original soundtrack (which is great in the case of SF, which has a kick ass theme). Occasionally bad lip-synching, but that's all part of the fun EXTRAS: static text biographies and completely random WB cartoons thrown in for good measure CONCLUSION: The STREETFIGHTER series is, for any martial arts fan, completely unmissable and this seems to be the best package - $20 is an absolute bargain - just consider the rest of the films as nice little extras. One to skip, (or watch, if you happen to be a masochist), is Kinji (BATTLE ROYALE) Fukasawa's LEGEND OF THE EIGHT SAMURAI, possibly one of the absolute worst films ever, not even a giant killer centipede can save it. A+ --------------------------------- (warning: these films, unlike bruce lee's flicks, are not for kids as they are ultra-violent, even by today's standards, and rife with sex/nudity)
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Summary: Buckets of blood or at least red paint
Review: The 10 DVDs in this collection are very uneven in quality. The Streetfighter movies have the best quality of the group. The samurai movies are not so hot (sorry Sonny, Toshiro Mifune you aren't). But at this price, its good fun and worth it just for the Streetfighter movies. My favorite scene in 'Return of the Streetfighter' is when Sonny whacks a bad guy in the head and the baddie's eyes pop out of his head (my teenage sons found this particularly hilarious).
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