{"id":42825,"date":"2026-10-05T07:04:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T11:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=42825"},"modified":"2026-10-03T15:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T19:13:09","slug":"the-street-fighter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=42825","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Street Fighter&#8221; starring Sonny Chiba \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z100526review_streetfighter.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"765\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>The Street Fighter <\/i>(1974)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director:\u00a0 <strong>Shigehiro Ozawa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: \u00a0<strong>K\u014dji Takada, Motohiro Torii<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars:\u00a0 <strong>Sonny Chiba, Yutaka Nakajima<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>If you&#8217;ve got to fight&#8230;fight dirty!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Terry Tsurugi, a martial arts master, is approached by the Yakuza to kidnap Sari, a billionaire&#8217;s daughter.\u00a0 \u00a0Terry opts to instead protect her.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Now the forces of the Yakuza are gunning for Terry and Sari.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I wanted to see <em>The Street Fighter<\/em> when it was first released in 1974.\u00a0 I couldn&#8217;t because it was rated X because of the violent fight scenes.\u00a0 No one under 17 admitted.\u00a0 I had just turned 16.\u00a0 When I finally got to see <em>The Street Fighter<\/em> I was so disappointed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sonny Chiba is a legend among many martial arts fans.\u00a0 To me his facial expressions\/grimaces were over the top and even comical.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><strong><i>The Street Fighter <\/i>(1974)<\/strong> rates 2 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_d.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z100526review_streetfighter2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"223\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Street Fighter (1974) Director:\u00a0 Shigehiro Ozawa Screenplay: \u00a0K\u014dji Takada, Motohiro Torii Stars:\u00a0 Sonny Chiba, Yutaka Nakajima Tagline: If you&#8217;ve<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,54,65,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-movies","category-trivia","category-z-view"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42825"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43007,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42825\/revisions\/43007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}