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The Street Fighter (Japanese: 激突! 殺人拳, Hepburn: Gekitotsu! Satsujin-ken, lit. Clash! Killer Fist) is a 1974 Japanese martial arts film produced by Toei Company, directed by Shigehiro Ozawa, and starring Sonny Chiba.
- $1,565,000
- February 2, 1974
- Toshiaki Tsushima
- Shigehiro Ozawa
Nov 1, 1974 · The Street Fighter: Directed by Shigehiro Ozawa. With Shin'ichi Chiba, Yutaka Nakajima, Chiyoko Kazama, Etsuko Shihomi. After failing to reach a deal with her enemies, a mercenary karateka protects the daughter of a recently-deceased oil tycoon from the evil conglomerate gunning for her inheritance.
- (5.4K)
- Action, Crime, Thriller
- Shigehiro Ozawa
- 1974-11-01
Signature. Shinichi Chiba ( Japanese: 千葉 真一, Hepburn: Chiba Shin'ichi, born Sadaho Maeda; 23 January 1939 – 19 August 2021), known internationally as Sonny Chiba, was a Japanese actor and martial artist. [1] Chiba was one of the first actors to achieve stardom through his skills in martial arts, initially in Japan and later before an ...
Aug 19, 2021 · Sonny Chiba was a prolific actor in Japanese film and TV, working closely with the famed production company Toei. His fame broadened with the international release of The Street Fighter, a bloody ...
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- Andrew Limbong
- Invasion of the Neptune Men (1961) Since Chiba got his start in tokusatsu, we had to include at least one title from this uniquely Japanese genre, and this one is truly vintage, shot in black and white.
- The Street Fighter (1974) The Street Fighter was a game changer, one of the very first modern Japanese martial arts films to get international distribution.
- Wolf Guy: Enraged Lycanthrope (1975) This is not a Mystery Science Theater film, but it should be. Wolf Guy is a hard-to-find cult film where Chiba plays Akira Inugami, the last survivor of a clan of werewolves who uses his lupine powers to solve crimes.
- Karate Bullfighter aka Champion of Death (1975) Chiba played his illustrious sensei Masutatsu “Mas” Oyama in a film trilogy based on a biographical manga titled Karate Baka Ichidai (Karate fanatic) by Ikki Kajiwara that began in 1971 and ran until 1977.
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Aug 24, 2021 · Sonny Chiba in The Street Fighter, the 1974 movie that brought him to global attention. Photograph: Everett Collection/Alamy. Movies. This article is more than 2 years old. Obituary.
