Sonny Chiba: Street Fighter Collection

Like all Popflix sets, there are five films spread across two discs. The reason to buy this set is the first disc: THE STREET FIGHTER, RETURN OF THE STREET FIGHTER, and THE STREET FIGHTER'S LAST REVENGE all in one place, all in widescreen (albeit non-anamorphic), all for very cheap.The important things to note about this set is that 1) the films are all uncut. The violence for which these films are known is intact. 2) The films are in 4:3 letterboxed widescreen, so they will appear windowboxed on a widescreen set. I watched them on my 27" computer screen in VLC. All I had to do for full widescreen presentation was "crop" the image to 16x9 so that it would fill out onto my screen without any loss of quality of warping of proportions. While the prints here do not look too good, you're getting the uncut films in their proper aspect ratios. That is the the main point.Also of note: all the films are dubbed. Unfortunate, but it is all we have.The other two films are available in better quality elsewhere. Sister Street Fighter can be had in the totally awesome  The Sister Street Fighter Collection , which has every film in that series. The Bodyguard can be found on  Welcome to the Grindhouse: The Bodyguard/Sister Street Fighter . This same double feature disc is also included in the great  Sonny Chiba Collection  which also includes anamorphic uncut prints of BULLET TRAIN, GOLGO 13, and a few other Chiba flicks that are definitely worth watching.The Street Fighter series is totally awesome and will give you plenty of joy. Sure, I wish they looked better, but I'm more than happy to have them uncut and in widescreen.

This time I’ll talk about a film in the public domain, at least I think it is, called The Street Fighter. It’s not that movie based on the videogame but a series of grindhouse action films by Sonny Chiba. Before being in Kill Bill he was doing action movies in the 1970’s and is considered the Steven Segal of Japan at the time. In The Street Fighter Sonny Chiba plays a mercenary named “Terry” for the yakuza.After doing a favor for the yakuza by saving a death row prisoner. When a rich guy dies and leaves all of his fortune to his daughter in Japan the yakuza order Terry to kidnap her. Terry refuses because he wanted more money and then the yakuza end up ordering to kill him. There’s also a fight scene where Terry fights a martial arts master at a dojo and has a change of heart at the end of the fight. He ends up protecting her at his service free of charge. There’s even a subplot where there’s these people out to get him for being half Chinese.This was also Quentin Tarantino’s inspiration to do films when he saw this in theaters back in the 1970’s. This is a pretty violent film and at archive.org they only got the dubbed version which is kinda bad. I guess that’s what makes this film so good because of it. Haven’t seen the sequels except “Sister Street Fighter” which is also on the archive.org site to if you want to take a look.

I love Sonny Chiba and this collection is awesome. Sonny Chiba does what Sonny Chiba does best: kick serious butt.If you are watching it thinking he is a hero then you are sadly mistaken. He is an anti-hero to the extreme. Does he show mercy? No. So you better pay up or you will fly out the window. This was shown in the first movie.If you want to find out more on Sonny Chiba then I recommend Tokyo Scope by Patrick Macias. It has quite a few articles on Sonny Chiba. And yes he was in Kill Bill.So, if you like old school martial arts then look no further because Sonny Chiba will deliver... with a jump kick to the chest! I believe he can be the real Kenshiro from Hokuto no Ken... or maybe Raoh.

I got into Sonny Chiba because of the funny commentary that James Rolfe, the Angry Video Game Nerd, did for Street Fighter. This set has all 3 Street Fighter movies as well as one of the sequels, Sister Street Fighter. The quality isn't nearly as good as the version that's in this set... Martial Arts Masters But the fuzziness sort of adds to the cheesy fun of the movies. You'll never see another martial arts actor quite like Sonny Chiba. These movies are a lot of fun. Just a note, these movies aren't anamorphic. So, so to see them in their correct ratio, you'll have to zoom in. On my tv, it has something called Pix1, Pix2, etc. On my computer, powerdvd has a smart stretch for 2.35:1 option.

If you love classic 70s Kung Fu flicks then you really can't go wrong with the street fighter series. Only fly in the ointment? Sister street fighter in this collection is the censored version (check out www.movie-censorship.com for more information). The picture quality is a bit rough for some of the movies but overall (IMO) not a big deal.

I didn't buy it for the quality of picture, but rather the quality of badassary.

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This movie collection is for any old school karate movie fans, the action is non-stop from beginning to end....Sonny Chiba takes no prisoners and goes all out dealing justice for those who can't give it out themselves.

This set includes all of the classic Streetfighter movies and two lesser works from Sonny Chiba. The DVD can be picked up cheap, but fans should be aware that these films are all dubbed. Kind of takes away from the authencitiy of it all. However if you don't mind dubbed films you are picking up 5 movies for a few dollars, so well worth it.

I have a few problems with this collection. First, although the movies are presented in widescreen, they are not anamorphic. So if you're using a widescreen television, you'll get the bars on the top & bottom, as well as the sides of the screen. If your tv or player has a zoom function, you can fill the screen.My other main problem is there is no language function. You have to watch the fairly bad english dub of these films. I was hoping there would be an option to hear the original Japanese with English subtitles. These are 2 pretty big strikes against the set, but they are pretty standard for these movies. As far as I know, they've never been given a good treatment here. So for now were stuck with it.The picture quality is pretty good. And it is very nice to have all the Street Fighter movies in one slim box.The movies themselves are pretty standard Chiba stuff. Lots of action, and very violent. Great fun if you're a fan of the genre.Hopefully one day we'll get a better version of at least the original Street Fighter film. I would love to see it in blu-ray with subtitles. But for now, and for the price, this is a pretty sweet collection.

It's good to be bad. The first movie is cool. Sonny Chiba's a bad boy working for the highest player. Good fight scenes. The other movies are quite bad, but there still funny to watch. Also, (Sister Streetfighter is also known as Hapkido).