The Street Fighter's Last Revenge
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is a 1974 martial arts film
and the third in a series starting with The Street Fighter
starring Sonny Chiba
. The film is currently in public domain
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being hired to find tapes dealing with making heroin, for which he gets paid. Along the way, he gets double crossed and his girl friend is murdered. So he goes for revenge against the criminals who hired him.
In addition to the plot changes, many scenes have been moved into different sequences. Much like the first U.S. release of The Street Fighter, much of the violence was cut to avoid the X-rating. One deleted scene involves Tsurugi ripping Kunigami's heart out of his chest. Aside from a LaserDisc release in the U.S., the original cut in its entirety has been sold only in Japan, the United Kingdom and France.
Martial arts film
Martial arts film is a film genre. A sub-genre of the action film, martial arts films contain numerous fights between characters, usually as the films' primary appeal and entertainment value, and often as a method of storytelling and character expression and development. Martial arts are frequently...
and the third in a series starting with The Street Fighter
The Street Fighter
, 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....
starring Sonny Chiba
Sonny Chiba
, also known as Sonny Chiba, is a Japanese actor, singer, film producer, film director and martial artist.Chiba was one of the first actors to achieve stardom through his skills in martial arts, initially in Japan and later before an international audience.- Early life :Born in Fukuoka, Fukuoka,...
. The film is currently in public domain
Public domain
Works are in the public domain if the intellectual property rights have expired, if the intellectual property rights are forfeited, or if they are not covered by intellectual property rights at all...
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Synopsis
This third film is about Takuma TsurugiTakuma Tsurugi
is a fictional character and amoral anti-hero in The Street Fighter film trilogy, played by Japanese actor Sonny Chiba. He is a martial arts expert and a mercenary for hire, usually employed by the Yakuza, though at times he would get double cross, leading him to exact revenge...
being hired to find tapes dealing with making heroin, for which he gets paid. Along the way, he gets double crossed and his girl friend is murdered. So he goes for revenge against the criminals who hired him.
Alternate versions
At least in the U.S. version, the true plot was changed drastically. The original plot involved a mobster named Owada hiring Tsurugi to get his brother out of trouble. But when he is double-crossed, Tsurugi steals a tape in order to blackmail a powerful oil corporation involved in governmental corruption. The tape ends up in the hands of a corrupt prosecutor known as Kunigami, who knows a special form of karate that dwarfs Tsurugi's.In addition to the plot changes, many scenes have been moved into different sequences. Much like the first U.S. release of The Street Fighter, much of the violence was cut to avoid the X-rating. One deleted scene involves Tsurugi ripping Kunigami's heart out of his chest. Aside from a LaserDisc release in the U.S., the original cut in its entirety has been sold only in Japan, the United Kingdom and France.
Cast
- Takuma TsurugiTakuma Tsurugiis a fictional character and amoral anti-hero in The Street Fighter film trilogy, played by Japanese actor Sonny Chiba. He is a martial arts expert and a mercenary for hire, usually employed by the Yakuza, though at times he would get double cross, leading him to exact revenge...
: Sonny ChibaSonny Chiba, also known as Sonny Chiba, is a Japanese actor, singer, film producer, film director and martial artist.Chiba was one of the first actors to achieve stardom through his skills in martial arts, initially in Japan and later before an international audience.- Early life :Born in Fukuoka, Fukuoka,... - Aya Ōwada: Reiko IkeReiko Ike, is a Japanese actress, singer, and entertainer. She is best known for her roles in the genre of action/erotic movies known as pink films. Ike also released an album of songs in 1971, Kôkotsu No Sekai...
- Seigen Ōwada: Eizō Kitamura
- Gō Ōwada: Akira Shion
- Takera Kunigami: Kōji Wada
- Kendō Masaoka: Masafumi Suzuki
- Huǒ Fèng: Etsuko Shihomi
- Frankie Black: Dorian Howard
- Wolf: Willy Dosey
- Billy: Yan Hermanson
- Kimiko Nakayama: Cathy
- Satoko Yamada: Kyōko Tsukasa
- Ittetsu Sakuragi: Gō Ōtsuka
- Takao Nagatomo: Masaharu Arikawa
- Yokomitsu: Shunji Sasaki
- Gondō: Seizō Fukumoto
- Moriyama: Isao Takanami
- Tanabe: Kazumoto Saitō
- Shōnosuke Iizuka: Fuyuki Murakami
- Tsuneo Ushida: Kinji Nakamura
- Rikizō Watanabe: Tatsuo Endō
- TV Host: Shingo Yamashiro
- Yamane: Masataka Iwao