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The Street Fighter (激突!殺人拳, Gekitotsu! Satsujin Ken), literally Clash, Killer Fist!, is a Japanese martial arts film released in 1974 and produced by Toei Company Ltd. It was released in the US by New Line Cinema and became one of the first films to be a commercial success for the distributor. It is notable as the first film to receive an X-rating in the United States solely for violence. In the UK it was originally released as Kung Fu Streetfighter, presumably to avoid confusion with the Charles Bronson movie Hard Times which was initially released as The Streetfighter in the UK.
The Street Fighter inspired two sequels, Return of the Street Fighter and The Street Fighter's Last Revenge. Additionally, the film Sister Street Fighter and its sequels is a spin-off series of The Street Fighter. There was another spin-off entitled Kozure Satsujin Ken, which was brought to the US by a different company under the title Karate Warriors. The video game The Darkness has the entire movie available, to watch, on any of the in-game TVs.
The film is in the public domain and is available for free download at the Internet Archive.
Original Release
02/02/1974
US Release
11/01/1974
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Shin'ichi Chiba | Takuma Tsurugi (Terry) / Takuma Tsurugi |
Yutaka Nakajima | Sarai Chuayut |
Chiyoko Kazama | Yang Gei-Cheun |
Etsuko Shihomi | Nachi Shikenbaru |
Goichi Yamada | Rakuda Zhang |
Nobuo Kawai | Tetsunosuke Tsuchida |
Akira Shioji | Liang Dung-Yat |
Chico Lourant | Bondo |
Tony Cetera | Abdul Jadot |
Osman Yusuf | King Stone |
Directors
Writers
Kôji Takada, Motohiro Torii, Steve Autrey
Cast
Name | Character |
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Shin'ichi Chiba | Takuma Tsurugi (Terry) / Takuma Tsurugi |
Yutaka Nakajima | Sarai Chuayut |
Chiyoko Kazama | Yang Gei-Cheun |
Etsuko Shihomi | Nachi Shikenbaru |
Goichi Yamada | Rakuda Zhang |
Nobuo Kawai | Tetsunosuke Tsuchida |
Akira Shioji | Liang Dung-Yat |
Chico Lourant | Bondo |
Tony Cetera | Abdul Jadot |
Osman Yusuf | King Stone |
Jirô Yabuki | Gijun Shikenbaru |
Minken Karasawa | Warden Yamazaki |
Takuzo Kawatani | Ôshima / Skull Crushed Yakuza Thug Ôshima |
Kojiro Shirakawa | Inspector Chan |
Tetsuo Torisu | Detective A |
Hisao Mizoguchi | Endoshi - Monkey Boy |
Masataka Iwao | Saga |
Takashi Noguchi | Yokoyama |
Osamu Kaneda | Detective B |
Satoshi Kurihara | Lei Jung-Ming |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Norimichi Matsudaira | Producer |