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Gekitotsu! Satsujin ken (The Street Fighter, 1974)
"But don't worry, Mutaguchi, there's an evil code of conduct - and I'm very tight-lipped."
#Gekitotsu! Satsujin ken#the street fighter#street fightin' cinema#japanese cinema#sonny chiba#shigehiro ozawa#kôji takada#motohiro torii#shin'ichi chiba#yutaka nakajima#goichi yamada#chiyoko kazama#etsuko shihomi#nobuo kawai#akira shioji#chico lourant#tony cetera#osman yusuf#jirô yabuki#toshiaki tsushima#blood tw#outrageously violent martial arts madness from the master himself Sonny Chiba. US importers were looking for a new Bruce Lee after#the star's untimely death‚ and this was the film they decided would revitalise the genre; dubbed and cut it was a smash hit (and became the#first film to earn an X rating in the US for violence alone). it's easy to see why; this is thrilling stuff even if Chiba's amoral#mercenary is a world away from Lee's dignified everyman (in the first act he literally sells a woman as a sex slave; you'd never have#caught one of Lee's characters doing that). the action is spectacular and grotesque‚ including a cut to x ray for a man's shattering skull#(the origin of those fatality screens in fighting games). it also leant it's name to the Street Fighter game series in an unofficial#capacity. lurid and nasty but a lot of fun and by god Chiba was a hell of a performer: where Lee was all about speed and control‚ Chiba is#like a wild animal‚ running up people's bodies and fucking them up while he snarls and pants. an acquired taste perhaps but i dig it#and it's not just action! Chiba brings real pathos to scenes of loss in the last act‚ and his murky motivations make for intriguing viewing
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The Street Fighter / Gekitotsu! Satsujin ken (1974, Shigehiro Ozawa)
激突! 殺人拳 （小沢茂弘）
11/5/21
#The Street Fighter#Sonny Chiba#Yutaka Nakajima#Goichi Yamada#Etsuko Shihomi#Chico Lourant#Chiyoko Kazama#Nobuo Kawai#Akira Shioji#Shigehiro Ozawa#70s#Japanese#martial arts#action#crime#grindhouse#exploitation#oil#revenge#karate#prison break#gangster#yakuza#hitmen
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The Warped Ones (1960) // dir. Koreyoshi Kurahara
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Bad movie I have Gate of Flesh 1964
#Gate of Flesh#Nikkatsu#Jô Shishido#Kôji Wada#Yumiko Nogawa#Tomiko Ishii#Kayo Matsuo#Kuniko Kawanishi#Misako Tominaga#Isao Tamagawa#Chico Lourant#Eimei Esumi#Hiroshi Chô#Keisuke Noro#Mikiko Sakai#Terue Shigemori#Kôji Yashiro
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The Warped Ones (狂熱の季節) (Kyônetsu no kisetsu) (1960) Koreyoshi Kurahara
September 20th 2020
#the warped ones#kyonetsu no kisetsu#1960#koreyoshi kurahara#tamio kawachi#eiji go#yuko chishiro#noriko matsumoto#hiroyuki nagato#chico lourant#the weird love makers#wild love-makers
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