History Film / TheStreetFighter

* {{Badass}}: This was the series that started Sonny Chiba's legend of badassery, and Terry is the principal badass of the series.

** Terry himself starts the film by being set up as a VillainProtagonist SpearCounterpart to BruceLee from ''Film/EnterTheDragon'', breaking a condemned man out of prison and then brutalizing the man's family when they fail to pay up. He makes the turn when his next clients turn out to be the Yakuza, whom he hates. He decides to protect their victim at no charge rather than help them.

* TakeThat: Listen carefully when the guards take Terry to visit Junjo in his prison cell at the start of the film, and you'll notice the English dub contains a snipe at the then-new Bruceploitation phenomenon: "He must think he's BruceLee."

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* {{Badass}}: This was the movie that started Sonny Chiba's legend of badassery, and Terry is the principal badass of the film.

* {{Badass}}: Terry. Of course, this is where Sonny Chiba's legend of badassery starts.

'''''The Street Fighter''''' is a martial arts movie series starring [[Creator/ShinichiChiba Shinichi (Sonny) Chiba]] as Takuma Tsurugi (known as Terry in the USA), a mercenary who fights with his martial arts skills. There was a spinoff series called ''Sister Street Fighter'', consisting of four films starring Etsuko Shihomi (credited on English prints as SueShiomi).

All installments (and the first ''Sister Street Fighter'' movie) were released by New Line Cinema between 1974 and 1979. The first two were initially made available on home video by [[MetroGoldwynMayer MGM/CBS Home Video]], and the other two were released on home video by Charles Band's Wizard Video in 1982 and 1983, respectively. All four were later released by New Line Home Video in 1996. ''Sister Street Fighter 2: Hanging by a Thread'' finally made its US debut in 2008 on BluRay as a double feature with the first film.

* HazyFeelTurn: Dingsau. It's ambiguous as to whether or not aiding Terry is a good thing, but after he defeats Junjo, Kowloon is shown with Sarai helping him get back on his feet.
** Terry himself starts the film by being set up as a VillainProtagonist SpearCounterpart to BruceLee from ''EnterTheDragon'', breaking a condemned man out of prison and then brutalizing the man's family when they fail to pay up. He makes the turn when his next clients turn out to be the Yakuza, whom he hates. He decides to protect their victim at no charge rather than help them.

* AntiVillain: Junjo, who appears in the first two films, is firmly in Type I territory; all he wants is a fair deathmatch against Terry, even if he's sore about Terry causing the deaths of his siblings.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: In spite of being a terrific asshole, Terry has a sense of honor. He'll risk his life to protect his friends, won't sell out those under his protection even under torture, and will fight against anything the {{Yakuza}} does without any benefit to himself.

* AntiVillain: Nachi Shikenbaru is a Type II. She only wants Terry dead because he had the audacity to force her to prostitute herself as collateral for a previous caper earlier in the film, to say nothing of how he caused the death of her brother by defenestration (ignoring that Terry merely dodged as Gijun lunged at him, though Terry did rough both of them up good). When Terry grabs her as she tries to butt into their final bout, she has Junjo run them both through. Unfortunately, Nachi is the only one who dies as a result.
** Kowloon Dingsau is a Type I; apart from Junjo (who was himself presumed dead until a surprise appearance in the second half of the next film), he's also the only villain to live to see the end of the film.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Both Kowloon Dingsau and Junjo Shinkenbaru exhibit this trait, as both only want a fair match against Terry. In fact, when King Stone and [[spoiler:Jadot]] tag Terry during a fight, Kowloon proceeds to turn on them. Also Kowloon tells Terry he can go away with the girl if he wins fairly, instead of the other gangsters who simply want to kill Terry and take the girl anyway.

* HeelFaceTurn: Dingsau lets his code of honor get the better of him and kills King Stone and Jadot for trying to kill Terry during his deathmatch with Junjo. After Terry defeats Junjo, Dingsau is shown with Sarai helping a battered and bruised Terry get back on his feet.

* PetTheDog: Alone among [[{{Yakuza}} those really nice people]], Dingsau is a ''really'' nice person even for a villain. His moments more often than not revolve around Junjo, and when King Stone and Jadot try to kill Terry during the climactic deathmatch, he does a HeelFaceTurn and kills both for trying to interfere with the deathmatch via dirty tricks.

* [[UnscrupulousHero Vicious Anti-Hero]]: By this film, Terry's firmly in this territory.

* ThemeTunePowerUp: [[spoiler:The theme from the first movie is finally heard when Terry comes out of his coma.]]

* ActorAllusion: As with the previous film, Yasuaki Kurata portrays a lone wolf who infiltrates the BigBad's army to try to sabotage the EvilPlan featured in the film. In this case, though, [[YouKilledMyFather he has a personal reason for doing so]].

* TheDanza: [[ItMakesSenseInContext May Hayakawa]] as Emmy Kawasaka.

* ActorAllusion: One guy at a bar tells Tina early on, "Let me show you a good time." Too bad for him Sue Shiomi had heard that song before when a pimp accosted her character in the original installment of ''The Streetfighter''. This time around, it's the Shiomi character who gains the upper hand.

* NoExportForYou: The uncut version, which is only available on DVD in the UK.

* RealLifeRelative: Creator/ShinichiChiba fights his lesser-known brother, Jiro, in an early scene.

* LighterAndSofter: By far this is the most light-hearted of the main trilogy, but it's still rated X for violence in its uncut version. Here, Terry Sugury ([[SpellMyNameWithAnS yes, that's how his name is pronounced in the film]]) is more of a JamesBond type than the ultra-violent mercenary he was in the first two films; however, he's still pretty ultra-violent, though not as much as in earlier films. Perhaps the most violent scene in the film is when [[http://youtube.com/watch?v=AewA7ZfMM6k Terry burns Frankie Black]].

* {{Qipao}}: Miss Yang wears one, but only in her first scene. For the rest of the movie, she's dressed in red and white English equestrian regalia.

* XanatosRoulette: Terry's caper at the start of the film has shades of this.

* ImpersonatingAnOfficer: Shortly after being double-crossed by the Owada clan, Terry intercepts a group while disguised as a highway patrol officer. He directs them to pull over in a car crushing lot and then reveals himself. He then sends a lone assassin, Wolf, back to the Owada clan alive to tell the patriarch that he should fight Sugury for the money he had stolen.

* KickTheDog: How Terry deals with the sister of the guy who couldn't afford to pay him after sending him out a window. Just in case we weren't aware that Terry is ''not'' a nice guy at all.

* TooSoon: One theory is that the plot was changed because New Line didn't want to bring Watergate (which also involved political corruption) back into the moviegoing public's memory.

'''''The Street Fighter''''' is a martial arts movie series starring [[ShinichiChiba Shinichi (Sonny) Chiba]] as Takuma Tsurugi (known as Terry in the USA), a mercenary who fights with his martial arts skills. There was a spinoff series called ''Sister Street Fighter'', consisting of four films starring Etsuko Shihomi (credited on English prints as SueShiomi).

* RealLifeRelative: ShinichiChiba fights his lesser-known brother, Jiro, in an early scene.

* BloodierAndGorier: Unlike its predecessor, this is just about on par with the main trilogy. All that's missing is ShinichiChiba.