{"id":95594,"date":"2024-04-07T23:11:04","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T06:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=95594"},"modified":"2024-04-07T23:11:04","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T06:11:04","slug":"street-fighter-the-1974","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=95594","title":{"rendered":"Street Fighter, The (1974)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;Listen, my son &#8212; trust no one!&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Street-Fighter-Poster.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Street-Fighter-Poster-211x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"211\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-95595\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Street-Fighter-Poster-211x300.png 211w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Street-Fighter-Poster-90x128.png 90w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Street-Fighter-Poster-190x270.png 190w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Street-Fighter-Poster.png 662w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 211px) 100vw, 211px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nA mercenary martial artist (Shin&#8217;ichi &#8220;Sonny&#8221; Chiba) violently kills or harms nearly everyone who enters into his path of destruction.\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Japanese Films<\/li>\n<li>Kidnapping<\/li>\n<li>Martial Arts<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nPerhaps best known by modern film fanatics as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IAG6GG6Rf0M\">swordsmith Hattori Hanz\u014d in Quentin Tarantino&#8217;s <em>Kill Bill Volume 1<\/em> (2003)<\/a>, Shin&#8217;ichi &#8220;Sonny&#8221; Chiba had his breakthrough role in this ultra-violent martial arts film &#8212; the first to receive an X for this designation &#8212; produced by Japan&#8217;s Toei Studios and released by New Line Cinema in the United States. It&#8217;s challenging and perhaps pointless to follow the storyline, which involves Yakuza gangsters, the kidnapping of a business magnate&#8217;s daughter, and numerous highly unrealistic sudden deaths by karate blows. (The stats below are from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sqkzVdoIPzU\">Grindhouse Review&#8217;s laudatory video overview<\/a>.) <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Body-Count.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Body-Count-1024x579.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"362\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-95601\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Body-Count-1024x579.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Body-Count-300x170.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Body-Count-128x72.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Body-Count-768x434.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Body-Count-478x270.png 478w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Body-Count.png 1394w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This film is primarily worth a cursory look simply to see Chiba (considered the &#8220;anti-hero&#8221; Bruce Lee) hamming it up on screen. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Street-Fighter-Hamming.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Street-Fighter-Hamming-1024x442.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"276\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-95605\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Street-Fighter-Hamming-1024x442.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Street-Fighter-Hamming-300x130.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Street-Fighter-Hamming-128x55.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Street-Fighter-Hamming-768x332.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Street-Fighter-Hamming-604x261.png 604w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Street-Fighter-Hamming.png 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Notable Performances, Qualities, and Moments:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Shin&#8217;ichi Chiba as Terry<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Street-Fighter-Chiba.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Street-Fighter-Chiba-1024x429.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"268\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-95599\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Street-Fighter-Chiba-1024x429.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Street-Fighter-Chiba-300x126.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Street-Fighter-Chiba-128x54.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Street-Fighter-Chiba-768x322.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Street-Fighter-Chiba-604x253.png 604w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Street-Fighter-Chiba.png 1450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nNo; this one is only must-see for martial arts fans. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0073756\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thespinningimage.co.uk\/cultfilms\/displaycultfilm.asp?reviewid=446\">Spinning Image Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/every70smovie.blogspot.com\/2014\/09\/the-street-fighter-1974-return-of.html\">Every 70s Movie Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/sqkzVdoIPzU?si=YapwZrhjzI8qw-RP\">Grindhouse Video Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Listen, my son &#8212; trust no one!&#8221; Synopsis: A mercenary martial artist (Shin&#8217;ichi &#8220;Sonny&#8221; Chiba) violently kills or harms nearly everyone who enters into his path of destruction. Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors: Japanese Films Kidnapping Martial Arts Review: Perhaps best known by modern film fanatics as the swordsmith Hattori Hanz\u014d in Quentin Tarantino&#8217;s Kill Bill Volume 1 (2003), Shin&#8217;ichi &#8220;Sonny&#8221; Chiba had his breakthrough role in this ultra-violent martial arts film &#8212; the first to receive an X for&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=95594\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=95594"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95607,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95594\/revisions\/95607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}