The Street Fighter 1974 movie, influenced Tarentino, Sf2, Mortal Kombat

 Aka Gekitotsu! Satsujin-ken    , google translates to something like

  Clash! Murder-hit/punch

Another site goes with

Clash!Killer Fist, another with Clash! Assassination Fist

Note that the kanji for “ken” is not something common, because M is not familiar with it other than to say the kanji for “ke” meaning hand, as in karaTE, is part of the ken kanji  . 

Watching now… pretty entertaining! At first worried the weird not-so-smooth kung fu influenced karate was a mistake,  but it fits with the character’s personality. He is a scoundrel. He isn’t Mr. Suave, Mr. Accurate, or Mr. Niceguy . He is sneaky, wild, dangerous, fearless, and deadly  

1974… so while a lot of it feels like Bruce Lee, it does take a different direction (while the dub states in the first line or two of the movie that the guy in the cell must think he is Bruce Lee, heh). Bruce was always the perfectly cool hero who rarely kills. Sonny Chiba is an antihero all the way, and kills all the minibosses. 

I figured it influenced Tarentino’s movies (grindhouse top 20 list of his,yeah, omg and Sonny Chiba was even in Kill Bill) and the name of The Street Fighter arcade video games… and I noticed several low sweeping kick attacks which surely is a direct inspiration for the games… but didn’t know it influenced Mortal Kombat with fatalities.  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Street_Fighter says, and I have often heard, “ It is notable as the first film to receive an X-rating in the US solely for violence.” It was mostly talked about as being the castration death scene movie back in the day.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles likely got Rafael’s Sai weapons from this movie  .. one sai pops up at time 49 minutes. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a sai in a non-ninja turtles movie before actually!

Awesome quotes-

“That’s a load of sukiyaki” at time 34 minutes. Hilarious… the movie got a X rating for violence, but they can’t say “shit”.  Heh.  And Netflix is where I am watching it… the damn thing edited out the gore.  Kinda surprised since modern gore is like 1000 times worse yet they leave it in on all these streaming things  

SF2 Game borrowed-

Sweeps, one looks just like crouching roundhousees of Ken and Ryu  

Jumping off wall kicks, a la Chun Li, (time 32 minutes…) and even the jumping roundhouse kick looks identical to Ken and Ryu’s. 

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Related, Kazuya (ya ku za .. rearranged) in Tekken and Smash Brothers dresses like a Yakuza man. 

Related. Goglo 13 -Kowloon Assignment was a 1977 Sonny Chiba movie?! Cool  

Sparkly water looks cool. Was blue white a minute before but now golden. 

Cool rain battle scene (Kill Bill?) and love the way he throws his jacket off screen here. 

And this is a Street Fighter 2 Guile flashkick, cool. Time around 52 minutes. 

And a SF2 M.Bison dictator or Vega claw slide before the flashkick moment.