The Street Fighter

The Street Fighter (激突! 殺人拳, 1974) is a Japanese crime-action film you can watch online on iFILM. Takuma Tsurugi is a mercenary with no code and no mercy — he fights dirty, breaks bones bare-handed, and works for whoever pays. First he agrees to spring a condemned karate killer. Then he refuses to abduct an orphaned heiress, and suddenly everyone wants him dead.

Sonny Chiba delivers his most brutal performance here. His Tsurugi isn't a noble master but something closer to a beast, knocking out teeth and ripping out throats without a flicker of doubt. The yakuza, the police, and a kidnapping ring hunt him across the country, leaving the murdered man's karate-trained daughter as his only ally.

Director Shigehiro Ozawa shot it so savagely that it became the first film ever slapped with an X rating for violence in the United States, and Tarantino later made it the protagonist's favorite movie in True Romance. This is pure Japanese karate exploitation for viewers who want their fights raw and unromanticized. Stream The Street Fighter (1974) online on iFILM.