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Friday, April 25, 2014

Street Fighter Series (1974)

A set of Japanese kung fu films directed by Shigehiro Ozawa and Kazuhiko Yamaguchi starring Sonny Chiba.
A tough guy lives a life full of violence as he tangles with the police, the mafia and drug dealers. He breaks his friend out of jail, is followed by a young female sidekick and is searched for by his sister.
The only way that I was able to watch this series was to pay as little attention to the film as I could. The audio and video quality were atrocious and the editing was horrendous. The second and third films featured multiple martial arts demonstrations that seemed like they were just thrown in as filler, but these turned out to be the best parts of a horrible series. The second film features a fight scene in which the hero punches his enemy and causes the man's eyes to eject from the front of his face. This was viewed as comic relief. I'm rating it bad.