The Street Fighter
The Street Fighter is a 1974 film from Japan, directed by Shigehiro Ozawa, running 91 minutes. reelscum files it under martial arts.
- Year
- 1974 · 1970s films
- Country
- Japan
- Runtime
- 91 min
- Director
- Shigehiro Ozawa
- Updated
- 29 Oct 2026
- Obscurity
- cult (44/100)
- Also known as
- Clash! Killer Fist · The Streetfighter · Kung Fu Streetfighter
Defined in the glossary: Martial arts
Sonny Chiba tearing people apart. First film rated X in America for violence alone.
Sonny Chiba plays a mercenary with no code and no charm who breaks people apart with an anatomical specificity nobody had filmed before. It was the first film to earn an X in America on violence alone, and it earned it.
Chiba's Terry Tsurugi is an antihero in the literal sense: you are not meant to like him, and the film does not ask you to. The X-ray punch-through-the-skull shot tells you exactly what kind of picture this is.
Brutal, humourless and influential. Travis Bickle watches it in Taxi Driver for a reason.
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