The Street Fighter's Last Revenge

Director: Shigehiro Ozawa, Teruo Ishii Shigehiro Ozawa

Overview

"The third entry in the Street Fighter series found the filmmakers adding in James Bond style trickery to spice up the kung-fu formula. This time, Terry Tsugury (Chiba) is hired by the criminal Owada clan to rescue a pair of cassette tapes that contain a formula that would the cheap manufacture of heroin. Tsugury pulls it off successfully but when his employers to double-cross him, Tsugury takes off with the tapes. The criminals send a group of thugs after him, led by a laser-shooting mariachi known as Mr. Black (Black). With a little help from female government agent Kaho (Shiomi), Tsugury use his fighting skills and mastery of disguises to foil the Owada clan and their henchmen. In the process, he gets to the bottom of a drug conspiracy that involves both the criminal underworld and the local police. Star Sonny Chiba went on to several more kung-fu epics built around his tough-guy charisma and Sue Shiomi later starred in a Street Fighter series spinoff entitled Sister Streetfighter."

Product Details

Release Date:	09/24/2002
UPC:	0089859833823
Original Release:	1979
Rating:	R
Source:	MUSIC VIDEO DIST.***
Region Code:	A
Presentation:	[Letterbox]
Language:	English
Time:	1:20:00
Sales rank:	44,133

Special Features

Actor bios; Filmographies; Chapter selection

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Shin'ichi Chiba	Terry Tsuguri
Sue Shiomi	Kahô Huo-Feng
Masafumi Suzuki	Kendo Masaoka
Frankie Black	Dorian Howard
Reiko Ike	Aya Ôwada
Willy Dosey	Wolf
Bruce Li	Actor
Gerald Yamada	Actor

Technical Credits

Shigehiro Ozawa	Director
Joseph Ellison	Producer
Simon Nuchtern	Producer
Teruo Ishii	Director

Editorial Reviews

Sonny Chiba's final go-round in the Street Fighter series attempts to dilute the brutal thrills of past entries with mainstream spy thriller elements. The balance never gels, making The Street Fighter's Last Revenge a thoroughly uneven mishmash. The plot is needlessly complicated and unfocused as it veers from kung-fu action to spy thrills, even throwing in a weird stab at noir melodrama in its final reels. Like Return Of The Street Fighter, The Street Fighter's Last Revenge also recycles key elements of the first film (including a dockside finale reminiscent of the final fight in The Street Fighter and the flashback to Sugury's tragic childhood that appears in every film of the series). It also suffers from too many silly elements, like the laser-shooting Mr. Black and the ridiculous disguises that Sugury uses throughout the film. On the plus side, the film does deliver plenty of solid kung-fu setpieces and Chiba remains a uniquely compelling anti-hero for b-movie fans. However, even devoted fans of the Street Fighter series may want to think twice before sitting through this muddled entry.