The Street Fighter

(1974)

91 minutes.

Film / Action / Martial Arts / Foreign

Directed by Shigehiro Ozawa

Cast: Sonny Chiba

Country: Japan

Sonny Chiba shines as the ferocious antihero Tamuka Tsurugi, a hired assassin capable of taking out entire armies with his fists of death. Actually, Tamuka is a dirt -bag beyond the usual antihero-standards. Right in the beginning he rescues a convicted criminal from the gallows. After his client's siblings cannot pay him, he kills the brother and sells the sister into prostitution. Yet, Tamuka has his very own, unbreakable, moral code of honor. After his refusal to take part in the kidnapping a beautiful young heiress, members of the mob make an unsuccessful attempt on Tamuka's life, an act which has earned them a mortal enemy