Movies in Movies: The Street Fighter (1974)

Gather together from the cosmic reaches of the universe. Here in this great screening room with comfortable recliners are the most powerful forces of good ever assembled.

Keith. Now here's another one that is probably going to disappoint you as well by the title. 1977, he did Doberman Cop.

Terry. Well, it will ring a bell when you do it.

Derek. Like they're like piranhas, land piranhas. And the power twins, Zap and Jordan, with their magical lemur snort dedicated Welcome back to Fumbling Their Way Through Movies, one forgotten gem at a time. This week we watched 1974's Street Fighter, which was in 1993's True Romance. This is Fumbling Through Film. I can tell you that the mafia and the Yakuza Association want to control this girl's fortune. Anyone can take this young lady to her hometown. But that's not all. You either get rid of all the punks in this Or she's still in danger. That hurts. Huh?

We're so sorry.

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Don't do this for my sake.

You mustn't consider it. Look at that. He's an animal. He couldn't protect any of us. I couldn't bear it.

How disgusting.

He makes me sick.

You could deal with an ordinary crook, whereas Tsurugi knows their specialty and is able to trap them. Consider, I know what makes those red bastards tick. Hello and welcome to another one-of-a-kind, genre-finding, brand new episode of Fumbling Through Film. The only show that dares to bring together 3 dudes to talk about movies. These aren't just any movies.

That's right, and I'll fight anybody who says differently.

Well, put up your dukes because these are the ones we've either missed, overlooked, or feel are simply worth revisiting. That means it's any movie. Any movie.

Well, we'll have to fight someday.

Someday.

Not now, obviously.

Eventually we'll— eventually we'll have a death fight.

Yeah, I'll tell you what, I got some fighting ideas after watching this one.

Oh yeah, there's some new moves that have been unlocked in my, my arsenal.

Yeah, it's the same. I felt like Neo in The Matrix. Like, I know, I know kung fu.

Yeah, all you have to do is watch this movie. You know kung fu, dirty kung fu.

If you're gonna fight, fight dirty. Anyway, my name is Derek and I'm a fumbler. Joining me here in the Fumble Dome where we fight to the death every week about what a movie is. Is the Prime Minister of Fumbling and Film, Keith.

Hey, hey, what's up, KG? Fumbler extraordinaire. And, uh, I have not lost yet in those death matches.

No, not yet. Not yet.

Yeah, nope.

We, we just keep bringing in— I put an ad on Craigslist, people come in, Keith kills them.

Well, they signed a waiver, so it's fine.

Yeah, well, of course, right?

Yeah, well, I thought you meant the 3 of us were having death matches and we just continue to go around and we're like Let's try again.

Well, there has to be judges. Me and Derek sit by and judge.

Yeah, in a death match.

Yeah, I think there's rules.

You know who wins and who doesn't.

I call penalties and whatnot.

There's a point system too.

Yeah, but it's a lot like— what's that stupid wizard game? Uh, you get points, but then if you kill the other person, it's worth 50 million points.

Yes, yes.

But you could be, you could be down quite a bit before you kill the person.

Oh, like Quidditch. If you catch the—

That's what it is.

The Golden Snitch. The snitch, it's worth a trillion points. So in theory, you'll just win.

Yeah.

I thought you meant like Jeopardy with like Final Jeopardy or something like that.

It is like that as well.

But there is those cases where sometimes the guy who dies has so many points somehow that he, he might still win the death match. You have to be careful.

There's been a few close calls.

Yeah, very close calls. Yeah, but Keith somehow still reigning champ.

Still reigning champ.

Yeah, well, you know, that's how I get the Extraordinaire title next to mine.

Extraordinaire indeed. Uh, he's got a lot of blood on his hands.

Yes, true.

That other person, he's squeaky clean just like me. He's Dutch Drave Kansas, Terry.

That's right, the sight of violence repulses me.

Yes.

Yes, I, um, although yeah, I, I am— that's what makes me such a great judge in death matches is because I'm totally unbiased. I don't glorify any of this.

I know it's wrong. I'm unbiased. I don't care who dies or not. I'll still determine who wins.

Yeah, Terry's all about the rules. Follow the rules in the death match.

That's all he's concerned— It's a lot of rules, um, and if you break them, well, there's some penalties.

There are penalties.

Yep. But so far, Keith, you've been doing great. Uh, hopefully nobody kills you and takes your spot on the podcast, but we'll see.

And the thing is, if we don't honor the rules of the deathmatch, what kind of society are we living in?

Exactly.

We're—

a society is based on its laws.

Laws and rules.

Yeah, I mean, it's Just, okay, let's just make it clear here. There's a ton of pressure on me every week.

Yes. Yeah.

'Cause I, 'cause not only do I have to like actually kill the guy, but I also have to do it in a way where you guys judge it worthy.

Yeah. Yeah, that's true.

That's because it's like, yeah, not entertained.

You have to. Yeah. Every, every great society in the world, every civilization, if you watch how they treat their death matches, that's how you can judge their ranking in society.

Yeah.

Yes.

I'm looking over, I'm like, man, is Derek gonna give me the thumbs down? And if he does, is Terry gonna give the veto?

Yeah. Oh, that's true. I could be that.

And then does—

and what's the wheel gonna do to me?

Yeah, the wheel is— oh, we can't— that wheel is very, um, finicky. It really—

yeah, it is.

Yeah, but that's why we love him.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know what else we love?

This podcast.

This podcast.

I do, I do. I love it.

My true love.

And that's just part of what we do. So let's tell people what it is that you're fighting for every weekend.

My hands are sore.

Every week we watch movies, but not just any movie. Every month one of us chooses a theme, a genre, a guiding light, an x-rayed skull getting crushed.

Oh, Mortal Kombat style.

Mortal Kombat style. And we adhere to that crushed skull or theme or genre. And we each pick movies that abide by that. And then the 4th week we really fumble because we spin a wheel and we watch a movie that's been randomly given to us by the Wheel of Death. This, however, this is DTF, Down to Fumble. Y2, year 2. M8, M stands for month.

Okay, good.

W1, week 1. So that means it's a brand new month and it's a Keith month. So Keith, please give us the rundown of the month. What are we in for?

Well, I just didn't think it could be any movie, any movie. I had to, I had to dig deep and it's any movie that's in another movie. So it's like the inception of nibbling, I guess.

Yeah.

Any movie in a movie.

Yeah. Any movie in a movie. And, uh, one of my favorite movies of all time is True Romance.

Mm-hmm.

And it, it opens up with him going to see a Sonny Chiba triple feature. Uh, which is, uh, the first movie is The Street Fighter. That— it's been popping up on one of the streamers for me to watch, and I haven't got around to rewatching True Romance yet, but I was like, oh, you know what, that would make a great concept for the, uh, podcast. Let's do movies inside of movies.

The Street Fighter, Sonny Chiba from 1974.

True, all true.

Now before we talk about our viewing of The Street Fighter from 1974. Or before Keith takes us closer in a deep dive to The Street Fighter from 1974, did anyone have any previous— any of us have any previous knowledge, history, and/or experience with The Street Fighter from 1974?

Obviously I did, because I, I knew of the movie from Watching for Romance. I owned the DVD, um, for quite a while because I watched it and I'm pretty sure that I watched the entire movie after I bought it on DVD, cuz I did remember a few things in the movie, but I'm, it's been quite a while, probably 20 years. And I, so I didn't remember everything, uh, about it. So it was a, it was a good rewatch.

Nice.

Good, good option for a rewatch.

Yeah, this is one I missed cuz I'd never even heard of it, but I have heard of Street Fighter, the game.

Yes.

But that's about it.

I don't think the game's based on the movie.

No, if anything, Mortal Kombat's based off of this movie.

Yes, I agree with that. Uh, I'm going to say yes, I had heard of this movie because I've seen True Romance once back in the day. Did I remember it? No. Did I remember that conversation? Nah. Uh, did I even think about it after watching that movie? Nope.

But here we are. We made it.

So many years later. 52 years since the movie came out. And, uh, I don't know how many years since True Romance came out. A handful.

Probably 2 or 3.

6 or 7. Yeah.

Yeah.

It hasn't been that long, right?

Something like that.

Yeah, I've watched it. I haven't— I probably haven't watched that movie in at least 10 years, and I know I've probably watched it probably a dozen times.

117 times.

No, I really like that movie. There was a time when people asked me what my favorite movie was, I would tell them that as opposed to just Empire Strikes Back every time, because that— because for a while it's like people would be like, what do you— what is— what is True Romance? They didn't know what, what it was. It wasn't as well known at the time. Um, you know, the more things that Tarantino did, people connected the dots to that, uh, and watched it. But, uh, yeah, I really do like that movie. There's a lot of good acting and some really good crazy scenes in it and everything.

Cool. All right, well, Terry, you and I, we gotta relax.

Uh, as we do every week when we watch our death matches.

Yes, it's a death match. Relax.

Yep, very chill.

Because Keith is going to take us closer to the Street Fighter from 1974 than we could have ever imagined in another patent-pending Fumbler's Deep Dive.

Uh, this movie came out in November of 1974, so a good, uh, what is that, 7 months before my mother did the greatest thing she could ever do in her life?

Oh wow. Yeah, watch Harold and Maude.

Exactly. Yeah. Uh, at the time it was rated X. It's the first film to ever get an X rating for violence in the US. Um, an American newspaper ad carried the quote, notice, the MPAA has rated this film unsuitable for viewers under the age of 17 because of its extraordinary fight sequences.

Hmm.

And if you guys really want to get crazy with this, The Street Fighter from 1974 became public domain. After the copyright was not renewed by New Line Cinema.

So it's public domain, so anyone can make a The Street Fighter film.

Apparently so.

Wow.

Probably has to have the word the at the beginning as well.

Well, yes.

Well, in all caps.

Because Capcom's fighting game franchise was named in honor of the US title of this film, having to drop the word the out of the title to differentiate, uh, as well as the logo for Street Fighter. Um, he originally wanted a protagonist in that called Terry Suguri, but was scrapped in favor of Ryu and Ken. Terry, the Terry character would later be, uh, make a name for itself in Fatal Fury: King of Fighters.

Yes. Yes, that's true. He's got a hat.

Um, with another character named, uh, Takuma in Art of Fighting 2. We already mentioned the, uh, connection with, um, At least with Quentin Tarantino being the one who wrote True Romance. But Quentin Tarantino listed this, uh, listed Street Fighter as number 13 on his top 20 grindhouse films list.

Okay.

I don't have the rest of the list in front of me.

It seems like a Tarantino film.

It does. It does. After failing to reach a deal with her enemies, a mercenary karate master protects the daughter of a recently deceased oil tycoon from the evil conglomerate gunning for her inheritance.

Is that what this movie was about?

I've got some questions about the plot of this film.

I mean, it's— that's the, that's the basics of it.

Um, there must be something lost in translation.

Maybe the dubs didn't do it justice. Yeah.

Yeah. Uh, taglines include, you don't know what mean is until you meet him, or If you've got to fight, fight dirty.

That's what my DVD says.

I like that one.

Yeah. And that's what I remember every week during these death matches.

Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah.

Keith bites and throws dirt in eyes and stuff like that.

Hey, it's what— I gotta get points with you guys every time. I'm always stepping it up.

I— and you know me, I'm a sucker for biting.

Yeah, you get— you actually get extra points. Yeah, every time you bite somebody.

Yeah, Terry and I have a secret list of places that you can bite that get extra points, but I'm not going to tell you.

Oh yeah, I don't, I don't even want to know.

There's, there's some secret spots if you get your chompers on certain areas. I mean, really, we'll give you a bonus on that, but yeah, we would never tell you where.

That would spoil the surprise. Well, it'll ring a bell when you do it, and you haven't done it yet, so One day.

Maybe some of the confusion here that we've had in the description of that synopsis there is that in the original Japanese release of the film, the antagonist gang was referred to as the mafia because filmmakers were not allowed to refer to the bad guys as the Yakuza due to possible threats from the real-life Yakuza for being villainized in the film.

Yeah, I believe that.

Yeah.

Mm-hmm.

You know, in Japan, you can't, you shouldn't have visible tattoos.

Yes, I've heard this.

Because that is— it's synonymous with Yakuza.

Yep.

So if you're a Westerner and you go to Japan, you cover your tattoos. Or— and if you're gonna— if you're gonna go to like a bath or something like that, go to— you gotta get like, uh, cover-ups and stuff like that.

Because my I Heart Beans tattoo is—

It don't matter.

I'm scared they won't know what that means.

Some of them— You could be fresh off of the news cycle and have Uh, Jimothy tattooed on it. You know what that is?

The raccoon.

The little raccoon guy. You could have him tattooed in the most loving way on your arm and they would think you're a yakuza. So you can't do that.

Yeah, in fact, you'd probably get recruited.

To the Jimothy gang in Japan?

Yeah, well, it's getting pretty popular down there, so.

It's getting popular everywhere, man.

We all love Jimothy.

Yeah, him and was— who's the little hippo? That was real popular like a year ago.

Oh, what's his face? Yeah, I know who you're talking about.

Yeah, they should like form a team.

Sadly, Jimothy is going to be in the next death match, so Keith's gonna squash Jimothy. Yes, that's gonna get some public backlash on the podcast, I think. Yes, because Keith hasn't lost yet. And just imagine a podcast where Jimothy gets to be the new host. Oh, that would be so cool.

Oh, if somebody beats me, they're the one who gets to be the new co-host.

The new co-host.

Yeah.

Uh-huh.

I imagine there's, there's a subreddit of people who just hate me every week for, for killing their family. Yeah. Yeah. For killing off people who come on here to try and take my place.

Mm-hmm. He's very protective.

They sign waivers, people. Okay.

They do sign waivers. They're totally— yeah. Timothy, he's willing to do this.

So yeah, our lawyers are still working on the patents for this, uh, deep dive because they continue to have to upgrade to the waivers all the time. Yeah.

Yeah.

Um, speaking of people who need upgrades, uh, Shigeru Ozawa— I pronounce that right— is director. What does he need an upgrade for? Well, he's director of Street Fighter.

Yeah, but what's he need an upgrade for?

I just, I just, uh, I, you know who needs an upgrade? Me on my, uh, my transitions here.

He needs upgraded from Director to executive producer.

There you go.

There you go.

To God. Yeah, well, that's the next step, I guess.

Yeah.

Well, I mean, once you get to executive producer, there's nowhere to go but God.

I mean, he kind of should be when it comes to Street Fighter, because he also did Return of the Street Fighter.

Uh-huh.

Street Fighter's Last Revenge.

Uh-huh.

And Sister Street Fighter.

There's Sister Street Fighter?

Yes.

Sister Street Fighter.

Does Terry have a sister?

This was a commercial success. Uh, for them. So they started a whole franchise based off this. Uh, 2 direct sequels, Return of the Street Fighter came out also in 1974. The Street Fighter's Last Revenge came out in 1974.

He probably dies in that one.

Then there came the spinoff Sister Saga trilogy, um, with Sister Street Fighter, also in 1974.

Dear Lord.

Sister Street Fighter, Hanging by a Thread. In 1974.

Come on. This can't be.

Return of the Sister Street Fighter in 1975.

Is this one of those things where they filmed all these movies all at the same time and then just like—

pretty much, pretty much.

They just recut footage from Street Fighter and made 5 movies out of it.

That's probably what it is.

Mm-hmm.

'Cause there's no way they filmed 7 films in 1974.

Yeah. Well, the final movie, that the Return of the Sister Street Fighter is another, as another spinoff originally entitled in Japan, I can't pronounce the word, uh, but it was brought to the US by a different company under the title Karate Warriors.

Okay.

You know, you know what it is, is it's probably a bunch of different films that they just renamed as Street Fighter and dubbed it or whatever to make it sound like it's related in some way.

Yeah, because I do believe Slinky was in Sister Street Fighter, but he's not Terry.

Oh yeah, yeah, I bet you that's what happened. It's just a bunch of random films they decided to like throw the Street Fighter name on.

Makes sense.

This deep dive was taking me a while to put together because, you know, uh, Ozawa has a lot of directing credits, but most of them have no, like, descriptions about what any of them are, or I did not want to butcher the title trying to read the title of it.

Fair enough.

Okay.

Um, one though that did jump out, uh, that I saw was one called Killer's Mission.

Okay.

A shogunate Secret agent is sent to investigate a secret deal with a Dutch warship involving repeating rifles to be used in an uprising against the shogun, but finds there's more going on than previously suspected.

Always more than they suspect.

Yeah, especially when it's a Dutch warship on the horizon.

You need to start suspecting more if you're in a movie.

Mm-hmm. I expect almost everything. Yeah.

Yes, you should.

Well, no, I, no, I don't think you should because then all of a sudden you don't get like A lot of the movies would be a lot shorter if people start paying attention to things.

2 things.

One, one, pay attention to things. And 2, when there's a problem going on, just tell somebody about the problem going on and all movies are suddenly cut in half.

I mean, simple things.

Just explain to somebody what's going on.

If you walk into, uh, an area you've never been before and all of a sudden There's like circus clowns sword fighting. You'd like be like, I expected this, right? Like, you could still play it out, right? But just don't be surprised by it. Expect it.

Are those clowns to the left of me?

Joker's to the right mostly. All right.

I think he's still kind of a clown. Yeah. All right. Now, uh, we got 3 writers involved with this.

3.

Wow. Um, let's start with the easy ones. Uh, Steve, Steve Autry. This is his only credit.

Any relation to Gene Autry?

I didn't see anything about that, but I saw this is the only credit. It's just because he's in charge of the English version.

Is he related to Daughtry in any way?

The guy from, uh, that was on American Idol. American Idol. Yeah.

Yeah.

And whose album I probably listened to in like the last 12 months.

You've listened to a Daughtry album in the last 12 months?

Yeah, yeah. I just, I threw it on one day and I was like, what's going on with this?

You popped up for a for a death fight.

Yeah, I mean, I don't let you guys hear what I'm listening to all the time.

Wait till he comes out to Daughtry, we announce him.

Yeah, you could play 6 consecutive Daughtry songs for me right now and I would not know a single one of them.

It's one of those ones where I was like, you know what, I like how this sounded at one time, and then I went back now going like, did I actually really like this, or was I just kind of rolling along with something? Pretty much.

But here's the thing, you could say, here's Daughtry, played for me in about like a minute and be like, who's this? And you'd be like, Daughtry.

Yeah, it's not, it's not, it's not making like the annual listening list. I have some albums I listen to at least once a year and I make sure, but that's not gonna pop up.

Not Daughtry.

Okay. No, no. Uh, now Motohiro Torii also was a writer on this.

Okay.

Also wrote Sister Street Fighter.

Oh.

And, uh, the other main writer on this though is Koji Takada.

Okay.

Wrote this, wrote Return of the Street Fighter, wrote Street Fighter's Revenge, but not Sister Street Fighter.

Interesting. There's a schism.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Well, they probably had to separate. They're making 5 films a year.

Yes.

All right, you do— you need to go work on the Sister Trilogy and I'll finish off the Street Fighter Trilogy.

Yeah. In 1964, uh, Koji wrote The Ninja Hunt.

Whoa.

4 ex-samurai are hired to find and kill ninja infiltrators who are intent on destroying the Matsuyama clan.

Yes, this sounds awesome.

It does sound awesome. Yeah, I also— when you said it first, I thought it was like going out on like horseback with foxes looking for ninjas.

You're blowing your bugle and there's like— you see ninjas just sprinting through the woods. Yeah.

The ninjas are known for being stealthy. You're just blowing a horn.

Like, yeah, get your beagles out there, your hounds and your bugles. Horseback.

That's awesome. I love that image. I'm just thinking about this.

You see them like just jumping, ninjas just like barely over like the grass line, like the prairie, you know, just like flipping. You just see their silhouette on the horizon.

You ever see like those paintings of like the, of like the fox hunts, stuff like that? Yeah, but this one, like, it's that and the ninjas, but then there's like a little family of foxes just in the corner, just sitting and watching, just chilling, being like, yeah, wiping their brow like, shoot, thank God for ninjas.

They get, uh, cornered around by a tree and the ninja throws down a smoke bomb and they just disappear.

Yep. The fox is like, shit, they're gonna come back for us now.

But that's the thing is that first they started hunting ninjas and they realized it was very difficult and so they switched to—

Yeah, like, let's go back to foxes.

Yeah, seemed like a cool idea at the time, which I agree.

But well, Disney can make a movie, The Fox and the Hound and the Ninja.

That should be the sequel.

Yes, I always did DVD version.

I always thought that that was what that movie needed, was something a little extra.

Was it a ninja?

Yes, just one Third Element.

Only way it's ever gonna get me to watch that movie again.

That's a— it's a tearjerker.

Yep, and I'm not watching that.

Yeah, and when they had to put that dang ninja down, that made me so sad.

I know.

Back to, uh, this movie though, uh, Takata also wrote Wicked Priest 4: The Killer Priest Comes Back.

Well, okay, The Killer Priest Comes Back.

The Wicked Priest 4: The Killer Priest Comes Back.

I like the sound of this a lot.

Also wrote Wicked Priest 5: Blood on the Commandments. Yes.

What's that about?

Yeah. Did not write, uh, Wicked Priest, Wicked Priest 2: Ballad of Murder, or Wicked Priest 3: The Killer's Pilgrimage.

This all sounds great.

Yeah. Yeah.

These are called— so, okay. This, these semicolon, like colon, whatever. These are great. Like here we get like Exorcist Origins, Exorcist Beginnings. These are lame subtitles. This is cool. Blood on the Commandments. I'm in.

Yeah.

Yeah, that's uh. I was amazed. I'm like, how did this person like get stuck writing that? Like not like hey, we just came in like maybe did the last part of a trilogy or something. Did parts four and five.

Maybe he was a big fan of the killer priest in one of a previous because Wicked Priest four colon the killer priest comes back. Is the Wicked Priest the Killer Priest, or is there a separate priest that's a Killer Priest and just the Wicked Priest?

And I don't know, maybe the Wicked Priest kills the Killer Priest and then he comes back to fight the Wicked Priest again.

Yeah, that's, that's what I hope happens. I want priest on priest action.

Yeah, I wanted to see this. I can just imagine such a wicked priest having to face off against such an evil priest.

I want the wicked priest to be from Boston too.

Me too.

Yeah, he's a wicked priest.

Well, they had some of those in Boston as well. Yeah, I think that's what Spotlight's about.

Oh yeah, I think you're right. Oh, they cover the wicked priest.

Yeah, I don't want to talk about those kind of wicked priests. I'm just talking about like a wicked awesome priest.

Those are too wicked. Yeah, we want more of like a fun wicked priest.

Yeah, like Halloween wicked. Woo!

Yeah.

Like a musical. Yeah.

Yes.

Let's see.

1968, Wicked Priest came out during the Tashō period in the early 1920s. A monastery of warrior monks was split apart between 2 factions. One of these factions led by the chief abbot and his protégé. And then when the protégé intercedes in a fight between a rival priest and some ruffians, leads to his expulsion from the order.

Okay.

Yeah, that sounds good to me.

I'm intrigued.

Uh, Wicked Priest 4, the plot is unknown at this time, but that came out in 1970.

It's unknown. Interesting.

It's lost to time. That's all right. I can imagine what the Wicked Priest 4, the Killer Priest Comes Back, is about. We already talked about it.

Now, uh, the other thing Takata is known for is he wrote, uh, screenwriting for a trilogy of movies. Um, first one's called Champion here in America, but it's also known as Zakarate.

Okay.

And Bronson Lee, a Japanese American raised by his grandma in the harsh poverty-stricken desert Southwest, returns to Japan to demonstrate his mastery of karate by entering the tournament that will determine the world— the first world karate champion.

The first one?

The tagline for this movie was, he turned the Olympic contest into a game of death. Bronson Lee: The Fighting Machine.

Oh God, I know, I've never heard of this movie.

Nope, but it did lead to Karate II and Karate III.

Okay.

And as I mentioned, obviously, uh, I mentioned earlier, Return of Street Fighter, Street Fighter's Revenge are also on, uh, Takada's resume.

Nice.

In the United Kingdom, this film was originally released as Kung Fu Street Fighter, presumably to avoid confusion with the Charles Bronson movie Hard Times that came out in 1975. which was originally released, uh, in the UK as The Street Fighter. The signature hybrid martial art that runs in the early 20th century generation of the Shigure family bloodline is called— I can't pronounce what the Japanese version of it is, but the translation is Killer Fist.

Okay.

And it fuses both Japanese karate and Chinese boxing. So that's what, uh, Saint Chib is using throughout this entire thing.

All right.

Let's, uh, round out our deep dive by talking about Sonny Chiba.

We should.

He died in 2021, but he still had a couple movies released all the way until 2024. Uh, Bond of Justice 1 and 2. He's also been in movies such as G.I. Samurai.

Okay.

He's been in Shogun's Ninja.

I like it.

In 1975, he was in Karate Bear Fighter.

Whoa!

I like that one.

I like that a lot.

Is it B A R or B A R E?

B E A R. Yes.

They fight like a bear, or you fight bears?

Well, this movie is based on a true life story of Korean fighter named Choi Bae Dal, who then changed his name to Masutatsu Oyama. And is harder for me to say. Yep. Yeah. And is the founder of Kyokushin karate in Japan.

Okay, he fights bears.

There's like bear style.

Yeah, I think it's bear style. Yeah.

Dang.

Oh yeah, I wish it was.

Yeah, whatever. Well, that's too bad. Well, I'm excited because, uh, you know, after you kill Jimothy, next up is, is a bear.

That's a bear, right? Yeah, with a shortened spine.

Now here's another one that is probably gonna, gonna disappoint you as well by the title. 1977, he did Doberman Cop.

Oh, I'm excited.

Ah, unfortunately he does not turn into a Doberman.

Oh, he's not a Doberman himself?

No, he's not.

Does he use a Doberman?

Uh, I'm gonna assume so. Uh, tough-as-nails cop from Okinawa investigates a savage murder in Tokyo's nightlife district. Originally dismissed as a bumpkin, he soon proves more savvy than the local police.

Ah, he's— they underestimate him.

Yeah, he comes in with a briefcase full of Dobermans.

Uh-huh. They, they don't know who he is until he opens up that briefcase. They're like, oh my God, it's Doberman Cop.

It's a weird magic one. So they're like, they just pop out of like almost like a bottomless thing.

Yeah. It's like 101 Dalmatians, but it's 101 Dobermans. Yeah.

Yeah.

In a briefcase. Like a clown briefcase. I guess they'd be like a little miniature do— min, min, min pins.

Yeah. They're little, they're little tiny Dobermans.

Yeah. Yeah.

Attacks people with 100 Min Pins. That's great.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's like a, I would be, as a criminal, I'd be horrified if 101 mini Dobermans come charging after me.

Like, why couldn't you just use one regular size one? Damn it.

It's like, when, what would you rather fight? 100 normal sized, or wait, 100 mini Dobermans or one larger Doberman?

Neither, to be honest. But I, I guess the one regular sized one. I gotta look, look in one direction at all times. But the 101, man, I think it's like they swarm you.

Come from everywhere, they eat your ankles.

Yeah, like they're like piranhas, land piranhas.

Uh, he was also in, he was also in Bullet Train. Criminals plant a bomb— not in the new Bullet Train. Criminals plant a bomb on a high-speed train. It will explode when the train slows down unless the ransom is paid.

Oh, so it's like Speed on a train and stuff. But with a train.

And way before the actual Speed came out. In 2006, he was in The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift.

Oh, really? Was he one of the bad guys?

He was Uncle Somebody.

He was one of the cars.

I have no idea because this might be the only one that I haven't seen.

It's the best one.

It's the only one I have seen.

No, it's the only one you need to see.

No, it's not the best one. Um, but mostly, uh, he is, uh, at least besides Street Fighter, the other thing that the Street Fighter series, uh, the other thing that I know him from is, uh, being in Kill Bill Volume 1 and 2.

Mm-hmm.

Uh, where he plays, uh, Hanzo.

The sword guy.

Yep. He's the sword guy.

Hattori Hanzo.

Yeah. Hattori Hanzo. Yep. He's in Kill Bill Volume 1 and 2. That's Quentin Tarantino's movie, which now has the whole bloody affair. Affair is out now and you can watch that. I think it's actually on Peacock right now where it's like both movies put together. It's like 4 and a half hours. Yeah.

It adds some new stuff into it too.

I think you go and you watch stuff. You go, you watch The Odyssey, then you go watch this, you know, make a day of it.

Yeah, that would be a whole day.

Yeah, just about. Yeah, with drive time and stuff.

Yeah.

That might be my favorite, uh, Tarantino movie. Kill Bill.

That's a good one. I really like Kill Bill. Yeah, I like it a lot. It's perf— it's pretty good. It's pretty good. I don't know what my favorite would be. Probably Kill Bill, maybe. I like Reservoir Dogs quite a bit, actually.

I think Inglourious Basterds is my favorite.

Kill Bill stars Uma Thurman, David Carradine, uh, it's got Lucy Liu. Daryl Hannah, Vivica Fox, Michael Madsen, whole bunch of people in this movie. And like I said, Sonny Chiba shows up in this, uh, as he's the guy making, making sushi and making swords. Yep, always a good combination.

That's true, you can cut your sushi so easy with the sword.

Goddamn it, Keith, so close.

Closer than I ever could have imagined.

I couldn't imagine. It felt like we were x-raying into the movie.

Wicked Priest. Yeah, I want to watch so bad.

I want to watch all of them, all 5. We should do a Wicked Priest series, a Wicked Priest-a-thon.

Yeah, man, I wonder if— I wonder if Wicked Priest, uh, lost his, uh, copyright and is back in public domain. Maybe we could get that too.

Well, we could find out.

The Street Fighter versus Wicked Priest.

There you go, there you go.

Now we're on. I have no idea what Wicked Priest is, but It would be awesome.

No, but we love combining movies here when we can.

Yeah, why not?

They're not in public domain.

Oh well, there's a box set coming out soon of all of them, so that's exciting. Pre-order now on aerovideo.com.

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Okay, like what?

The Night of the Hunter. That's a great film.

That's— I don't— is that in public domain? Because that's really good.

That's what it says. Uh, copyright status: in public domain. Elmer Gantry.

Don't know that one.

The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

Oh, that's true. I forgot about that.

I, I will admit I recently, uh, was doing a bit of a deep dive into, uh, what was available in public domain.

Mm-hmm.

Trying to see how many of these like, like, uh, fictional characters are all basically right around the same time.

Mm-hmm.

There's a lot of good ones to use.

Yeah, there's a ton.

And there's good news. The Wicked Priest, uh, Blu-ray set is— they're only $35 for 5, 5 films.

That is good news. You're right, Terry.

That's cheaper than Jiu-Jitsu.

That is cheaper and more— yeah, think about how much bang for your buck.

But per disc, per disc, per disc. Yeah, not buying them all.

Yeah. Yeah, and it's, um, it comes out in September, so mark your calendars, everyone.

The perfect birthday gift for me.

Oh yeah. Wicked Freeze Collection.

And you wait a couple more months, I'm sure Amazon Black Friday sale is going to be amazing for that.

The thing is, that's like 2 months away, roughly. I will have forgotten by then.

It'll arrive at your door.

And I'll get it as a gift. And I'll be like, oh, thank you. Wicked Priest. How did you know?

People that don't know are like, Tarek, what are you watching? What is this?

Just like be really polite, and then as soon as you like close the door, you like turn to your wife and you're like, I don't know what this is. Yeah, why did he give me this?

Why do I have Wicked Priest 1 through 5 in a Blu-ray set?

Limited edition too.

It doesn't make any sense. I've never asked for this.

She goes back and looks at— looks at it. She's like, well, you ordered it from Arrow.

Yeah, but you ordered it yourself.

You ordered it, pre-ordered it like 2 months ago, Derek.

No way. No way did I pre-order that.

You would. All right, has a collector's booklet, so—

Oh shit, what's the website for that, Terry?

Uh, arrowvideo.com. Check it out, everyone. I actually do like Arrow a lot. I have a lot of Arrow Video movies.

Yeah, that's all I needed to hear.

I've got the Gamera collection from them, and that's great.

I got the wicked camera.

Oh my God, wicked camera. He turns evil.

Mm-hmm. He's from Boston. We've already gone over this.

Oh, he's a good guy.

Yeah.

Well, he is a hero of all children. So yes, that camera, he's wicked.

He's wicked cool.

He's like skateboarding.

Oh boy.

All right.

Well, we need to do it, boys. We got this. We got this far. We need to finish it up. We need to talk about our viewing of The Street Fighter from 1974.

Yes, let's do that. Let's justify my death match this week by talking about it.

Yes.

Yeah. So the plot is a little confusing to me. I don't know. So I'm just going to try and you tell me if I'm right or wrong here.

So I can't tell you. So go ahead.

The main character is Terry, which I like until he turns out to be kind of a horrible guy. But he is like a mercenary they hire, like these two siblings hired to break their brother out of jail.

Yep.

Okay.

But then they don't have the money to pay him. So the guy, Terry, kills the brother.

Technically, he didn't kill the brother. The brother tried to attack him and he ducked out of the way.

Okay.

Technically, it wasn't murder. It was manslaughter or something. Um, sister wants revenge. But she gets like taken away or something.

I don't know.

And then, um, meanwhile, there's this rich, uh, billionaire guy who dies and his daughter's gonna inherit everything. The mob wants to like kidnap her. They try to recruit Terry, but then they— he doesn't seem interested, but they've already told him too much, so he must die. And then they recruit the guy that he broke out of jail to kill Terry because he wants revenge. Is this right? Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah.

Okay.

I think we're done.

I mean, and then they fight each other and there's all these other random guys like a blind man and a guy with throwing knives.

You could have said anything right there and I would have said, uh, maybe, because the only parts of this movie that I cared about involved fighting. Yeah.

Things being ripped off.

I didn't— yeah, I didn't want to see anything other than fighting. I didn't even need an excuse for the fighting. Just show me this fighting with this hyper red blood and ripping off organs. Yes, ripping off genitals. He rips off a dude's junk.

It was awesome.

He deserved it.

Yep, I love that.

It was, it was awesome. But he's like, ah, he's just holding it there and like—

He really just holds it. Yeah, he's like, hmm, he's really getting a feel for it.

Yeah.

And then he wipes his hands off on the pillowcases. I'm like, yeah, it's disgusting.

Yeah, it's like, oh, wipes it on the curtain and leaves. It's like, all right. Uh, you know, there's like stuff, like there's things that occur in this movie I don't care about and things that didn't make sense to me. I'm just like, I don't care. I just want to see him fight.

The, the sister of the guy that he helps get out of jail in the first place. Ends up getting kidnapped.

And is she the one at the end that says, stab him through my back? Is that her?

Yeah.

Yes.

And she's also the one, she gets, uh, she gets attacked by like 5 guys.

Uh-huh.

And then ends up in, you know, uh, whatever that, like the guy, the killer guy that they go to hire and, or who has people that they can hire from. he's in her like drug den or something like that. And, and that didn't make sense to me. Like how, like when they got done, what, just cuz her, both her brothers were no longer around, she just kind of got scooped up. I, it was weird. Like she just suddenly ended up in like peril.

I think Terry took her there cuz he wanted collateral or something. Remember? No, I don't know.

Terry, I don't think he, yeah, I don't know. I don't think he took—

I think he sold her off like inhuman. Like trafficking way to this guy.

Oh no, I didn't, I didn't take that. I mean, I think he wanted her as collateral, but like, which was bad enough. But then I think after her brother jumps out, you know, tries to kick him and flies out the window and just, you know, splatters on the ground there, it's like the next thing you know, like we get like just this off scene of her being attacked by a bunch of guys and there's no like rhyme or reason of how she got there. There's just, I don't know.

I've, the plot's confusing to me.

Yeah. But you did get the rest of it right. So after that, that's kind of like set up for things to happen later on. But the main point of this is the Yakuza hires him to try and kidnap this girl, and then he realizes, no, you're trying to do something wrong and I'm gonna go stop you from doing it by joining with the other folks and trying to save the girl.

It just seems weird that he's gotta align that he won't cross when I feel like he's kind of such a scummy guy already. I'm like, why do you care that much about this?

Yeah, I mean, he's got one moral. He doesn't like bullies or something like that.

Punks.

Yeah, yeah, he doesn't like punks.

He doesn't like punks, and, and those mafia guys are punks.

Yeah, his character's strange, and I— yeah, I'm not a big fan of the Terry character. I like his fighting moves though, I will say that.

Yeah, the, the fighting in this movie is cool. Like, is it super well choreographed? No, but there's like some brutal stuff that happens in it that makes it like, oh, that's pretty cool. And there it— I don't know, it felt like a granddaddy to like a John Wick style movie.

Mm-hmm.

Especially at the end where, where are they, like in a ship or something like that? I haven't even—

Yeah, a ship. They're gonna—

he's just—

they said a fight out in the rain.

He's just like mowing through a bunch of people to get to the boss fight. Here's the thing. I paid attention, but all these things you're saying make no sense to me. And when it got to— because when it got to the end, like, that's the guy who broke out of jail. Why is he fighting him?

Well, he tells the guy up front, like, when he knocks him out when he's still in the jail, he does that weird thing so they think he's dead.

Yeah.

Or close to dead. He's like, we'll have a fight to the death later on at some other time. Why does this— he's going to want to do that? I don't know. But then once he realizes that Oh, Terry killed his brother and got his sister stuck in a drug den. Now he wants revenge and is willing to go and fight him for it. And he tries the one time and then Terry jumps out the window.

Mm-hmm.

And then they eventually have to do this big fight at the end. And I mean, like you said, like John Wick style, like I think he gets shot in the back of the leg at one time during that fight.

Yeah, he gets shot.

And then he gets, and then he gets stabbed because the guy stabs his sister in the back right through into Into Terry.

So when she did that at the end, I, I laughed because he didn't stab her with a sword, something long.

Yeah, stabbed her with a sai.

A sai, which was— what was it, about like 8, 9 inches long maybe?

Long enough, long enough to go through her and probably into him, but just poke him a little bit. Yeah, draw some blood. Yeah, it's— yeah, you're right. He's like, he Goes through the whole thing. He's like, she's holding onto him, wants to, wants him to stab through. But like, yeah, he, he didn't do something that could do any major damage to him apparently.

I mean, he still ripped out his throat.

I mean, it's on the heart side. Yes. So that's probably the only real concern, I guess. I think is, I think he stabbed, well, no, this would be the opposite side of the heart. So your heart's on your left. So, so yeah, he didn't even stab him in like a vital area.

Yeah. Just. like the lungs or something. Who cares?

Yeah, big whoop.

Big whoop indeed.

I, I like the violence in this. I thought it was pretty brutal, like when he punched the guy in the face and his teeth fell out. That was kind of—

oh God, all of his teeth!

Yes.

Uh, the x-ray hit was really cool.

Um, I didn't do that enough. I wish they would have done that more.

That should have been like the gimmick of the whole movie, I feel. Yeah, because it was so cool when it happened, and it reminded me, yeah, just exactly like the Mortal Kombat, like X when they started adding those like whatever fatal blows or whatever they're called.

Yep.

It was so cool. And then yeah, there's like a guy who gets splatted on the concrete and blood just goes everywhere. Yes, that was awesome. There's some pretty good violence in this. You know, like I'm kind of like, I guess for the '70s it was a lot. I'm surprised it got rated X anyways. I guess I bet you that genital ripping was the thing that made it.

Yeah, that was brutal. But well done.

Yes, it was like, well, yeah, well deserved. Um, kind of awesome.

Uh, I've never seen that in a movie since.

Ripping off genitals?

Yeah, some— a dude getting his junk ripped off.

Uh, I have seen it a couple times.

Hey, okay, so I did remember that that was gonna happen, but I thought that was gonna be part of the final fight scene.

Oh no, it's like the midway point almost.

Everything changed.

Everything changed since he did that.

Yeah. Oh my God.

It's like he's got the power of genital ripping. Yeah.

Well, every time you rip a genital off, you do gain a slight power.

You gain the power of the genital.

Yeah. Yeah.

Which is cool.

I mean, that's the line I don't, I won't cross during the weekly fights.

Yeah.

Well, I'm— you've got those extra bonus points for where you bite, Keith.

He didn't bite; he ripped.

Yeah, don't use your hands though.

I understand that. I'm telling you.

No, no hints or anything.

But you know, if you just bite somewhere, find yourself biting in places, you get extra bonus. But you will, Terry. I'll ring the bell.

Yeah, we have a gong.

Yeah, like this movie. Ah, it was fine, right? Like it was just a lot of. I just want more fighting. Get rid of the talking. Get back to the fighting.

Make the main character like a better character. Like, I don't like that he's kind of a scumbag. I don't want to— I don't care about him. I don't root for him at all. I'm like, yeah, well, I mean, I think he's cool when he's killing people, but I'm also like, well, but he's like— but from what I've seen of him, I'm like, I don't— he's not a good man.

He's got Sonny Chiba himself, though, is As it's scary, is is very fun to watch.

Got good expressions.

He's he's got he's got what I you know especially coming off our you know recently we did that Nick Cage month. He's got some Nick Cage isms to him.

Just the like the like he's got Nick Cage isms or does Nick Cage have Sonny Chiba isms?

Well yeah both yes yeah Nick Cage probably has some Sonny Chiba isms too because he's got like those where he like really like wide eyed and like. Yeah, really overselling, overselling the, the moves he's about to make. Yeah, it's like a lot of weird, like, kind of almost like deep breathing and making like little noises when he's about to like—

He's over the top, guys.

Yeah, yeah, he's over the top.

Extremely over the top. And it reminded me of, you know, stuff from more of the recent movies we've watched. I, I just— I found when he's on, on the screen, anytime that he's not on the screen, which, I mean, it's not a ton of the movie, but those scenes are really kind of flat. Where the ones that he's in, no matter what's going on, he has kind of a presence on the screen. He steals the scenes that he's in. I mean, he's supposed to, he's the lead. But if he's not in a scene, the movie drops off a little bit.

Yeah.

Why did he hate his little friend at the end?

Because his friend left.

He told her to stay with the girl, you know, stay there. And instead, the guy came up there, and as soon as you know they were threatening to kill Terry, he quickly gave up and told her where the girl was at.

Oh, okay.

Yep. But then he comes and saves him at the end.

Yeah, I thought he saved him.

And then there's like he was kind of moral. It was like a you know he's like I hate you, but he really means I love you kind of thing.

Yeah.

I like their dynamic a little bit.

Like the workout scene.

It was a very weird, uh, like comedic relief in the film where it did not really match with what else was going on in the movie. Like, he brings him with him when he goes to attack the entire dojo, and I'm like, this guy's worthless, just leave him home. He's like, he gets his butt kicked by the first guy he runs into.

But I mean, he's also like, he's a getaway driver at times, stuff like that.

I like that diamond. I just think it's just a weird movie. I don't get why they made this.

He says, he says at one point in time that like he saved him from something. Oh, and then he's been hanging out with him ever since.

Okay, maybe.

I don't know.

I don't know.

Hang out, hang out in that apartment that looks like it's 90% gym and then a small kitchen off to the side, like workout thing they have. Having this pretty big for that little studio apartment.

Yeah. I mean, that could be how they, they sold the apartment, right? Like it's a studio with a gym.

Yeah. The apartment complex does have a gym. Unfortunately, it takes up your entire living room.

Yeah. And the rest of the apartment complex can come use it whenever they want. It's in your apartment. Sorry.

But we'll give you $100 off a month.

Oh, okay. Sure.

Also, and this has nothing really to do with the plot at all in the movie, but man, the size of that apple he was eating in the scene when the, the brother and sister show up. But the thing is huge.

I do not—

I don't even remember that.

Sorry, these little things that stick out to me.

A giant apple, huh?

He's holding it.

Something I would normally keep track of.

He's sitting there like holding it while he's talking to him. I'm like, man, that thing is like the size of somebody's head. Like, it's a giant apple.

Wow. Maybe it was a pumpkin. You sure it was an apple?

That he's eating like an apple? Yeah.

People do that.

He's a street fighter, man.

People do that, Terry?

He eats pumpkins like apples.

I mean, I've heard of people eating onions like that.

Spotting dimes, eating onions. I don't know what to believe.

It happens, okay? Pumpkins are good for you.

Yes, I agree. And we're coming up on pumpkin spice season.

Oh, thank God. I'm ready.

I'm pretty sure it's already here.

I'm ready.

Eternal. I, I've seen, I think I've seen some of the, uh, pumpkin spice creamer already in the grocery stores.

Dear God.

Poconut. Po— wait, poconut. Coconut. Uh, poconut.

From the Poconos.

Yeah.

Coconut season is over. Thank goodness.

I hate coconut. Coconut season's over?

Yeah, that's the big thing this summer was coconut.

Was it really?

To me, it seemed like coconut was everywhere.

Was it a hot coconut summer?

It was hot coconut summer, and now it's time for cold pumpkin fall.

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See? It's a thing.

AI knows what I mean.

Yeah, Terry was all about it.

He knew. I'm on top of the trends, and I know that coconut was a big thing, and I hate coconut, and so it's just been hell.

That's one of the reasons we keep you around here, Terry. The youth. You, you're keeping us connected to what the young folks do around here.

Yeah. Now, is it a very biased— like, maybe I just noticed it because I hate it? And then it's not really that big. I don't know.

But I don't know.

Who knows? Who knows?

They are getting to the point though, where Starbucks just could have pumpkin spice on the menu year round and be fine with it.

I don't know why they don't. Yeah. Well, I get it. I guess it's kind of like just the— it gets the hype. They like to have that hype. But yeah, I don't think— I don't remember him eating an apple. I don't remember him eating any vegetables or fruits.

Yeah, he's eating an apple in that scene when they come to get—

Or a gourd. I didn't see him eat any gourds. But yeah, I— this movie's kind of strange. I think the tone is a little off with the comedy and the violence and all this stuff. I don't think the main character is very likable. Like, you can have a bad guy be your main character, but at least make me like him. I don't really like him. I think the acting is pretty good, like you said, but like, why? Like, you know, like we watched The Killer and that's a good example of, oh, he's a bad guy, he's a hitman, but he's still like, you know, you, you root for him at the end of the day and he's got a fun dynamic and all this stuff.

Yeah.

This guy's not like that at all. Like, he's kind of a scumbag the whole time, except for to his friend. He's kind of friendly with that guy.

Kinda. He's not though. He's a jerk to everybody. He's a skull-crushing jerk. Why were they in that car that got dropped off the bridge?

Oh yeah, they were following. They were following. The, the one guy was taking that girl to the airport. Yeah, they were supposed to be doing her and like her 2 bodyguard friends, and they were following behind as well. And but those guys—

But then they got picked up by like a—

Because they, because they already knew that it was happening. Like, they are— they already—

somebody ratted them out.

Yeah.

But like, why?

Because the one, the one truck— they didn't know until the, the claws came and they kept the doors closed.

They couldn't get out the window or something. I don't know. It— there was a lot to that scene where I'm just like, what? And they drop them off the bridge and the guys just run down there to shoot them. Just shoot. If—

yeah, they want to make sure these—

why jump? Why throw them off the bridge if you're going to clamp them in with the—

I thought they're just going to dangle them up there.

Yeah, just stand up there and shoot them from there. You don't have to go— don't have to drop them.

Just use that crane and just start smooshing.

Oh, just shake it. Just like a dog.

Yeah. But then, but then like the car that— the car they were following though goes to that one guy's like Place to pick something up, and he's like, "Oh yeah, I'm not. I'm not taking you anyway. Like I'm not going to the airport. Doesn't really matter.

The elements of story were unimportant to me in this movie.

They do not matter for the most part. There's some cool like power, you know, like mini bosses, blind guy with the sword. Yeah, yeah.

Who was the blind guy in that? Like on that alley?

I don't know who he was. He's like a hitman.

He was. He was. He was at the bar thing with. The, the guy that they go to and they go to China or no, they go to Hong Kong. They go to Hong Kong to find a couple like A-list like assassins to come and take care of this guy. And that's where they find those, him and his like his brother who like throws knives at people and then they also—

Gets him in the eye.

Yeah. And then also the guy who he got out of jail is over in the same place. Yeah.

And don't, doesn't throwing knife guy get the guy who got out of jail's eye out?

I thought so.

Why were they fighting?

I don't know. I don't remember. Why was he standing in the alley though?

That was the part that I didn't understand. No, that's not, that's not the guy who he, he, he took the eye out of, of one of the 2 bodyguards that were driving her away.

Hmm. Okay.

Okay.

It was still cool. He threw that knife right in the dude's eye.

That was cool. Whoever he—

But then the guy pulled it out and came back there and like took him out anyway.

Kept fighting with his eye out. Yeah.

You only need one.

Yeah, that's right.

You might not even need any if you're— you see that blind guy?

Yeah, he just stands there and blocks cars.

Yeah, I think he might have been faking it.

But why was he standing there though?

It's ambush. He's waiting him out.

Yeah, no, he was hired by those people.

And so stand in the road to kill—

I don't know why. I don't know why he's standing in the road, but he's waiting for that girl and those 2 guys to come driving back through. And stop him. Those 2 guys get out to defend her, and then the rest of the guys come up from the house and quickly grab—

Just run him over. They're in the car.

He's standing there.

They don't, they don't, they don't know that he's a blind assassin.

They thought he's just a blind guy. Yeah.

Just standing in the middle of the road.

Yeah.

They never trust him. If you see a blind man standing in the road, he's there to kill you.

Just run him over. Is that what you're saying?

Just run him over. He's there to kill you.

Never fall for that trick.

Yeah, that's the oldest trick in the book.

It is. I can't tell you how many times I've seen an old blind man in the road and I just—

And you just run them over.

Yeah.

And, and if they scream, no, please, I'm blind, don't run me over, don't fall for it. Don't fall for it.

It's like, no, really, I'm blind and I'm not here to kill you.

Yeah, well, who— you know who would say that? A blind assassin.

Exactly, exactly. You can't trust it.

No, I agree. All right, boys, did we do it? We did. Did we get through The Blind Assassin from 1974?

That's a different film.

Oh, The Street Fighter from 1974, starring Sonny Chiba. Well, what'd we think?

I mean, I'm not gonna like watch this a ton ever again, probably, but I enjoyed— I enjoyed the watching of it. Like I said, I think Derek, you Said it right. There's a little too much chitchat at times, and they could have— every time that they kind of go away from the fighting, that it just kind of slows down a little too much, and then they get back into him just kicking everybody's ass, and then the movie works. Um, so they could have just continued on with that. But, uh, you know, for the most part, I enjoyed it. Not horrible, not the worst thing we watched, not the best thing. Somewhere in the middle.

Definitely not.

Yeah, I think this is very middle of the road. Um, The story is just a mess. I don't understand it really at all. Uh, there's parts that are interesting. The violence is really pretty cool. The fighting is decent. I think Saito has good acting. He's just playing a character that I don't like. Um, I don't know, it's, it's, it's kind of a mixed bag for me. Like, there's a lot to like in it, but I don't know if they— like, the good outweighs the bad. It's pretty even.

It was fine. I didn't hate it. I didn't love it. It was Violence was there. Uh, story, this is nonsensical to me at least, and I really didn't care. But you see it, you're like, oh, okay, this is kind of like a predecessor to modern action films. And I wish there was more x-ray bones breaking or nuts.

Yeah, it was a little disappointing that they didn't, uh, continue on with that. They only use it like the one time. It seems like if you're gonna use it once, like, let's see this happen a couple different times.

Same thing with the junk getting ripped off. You rip off one guy's junk, real cop, everybody's junk.

That should have been his finisher.

Just like that RoboCop video or whatever, right?

Oh, where they just shoot the guy.

Shoot people in the dick. That's just— this guy just like running around just ripping off junk, junk constantly.

That blind man in the middle of the road's junk, rips that off.

Well, I mean, he's the most obvious candidate for getting his junk ripped off. He's blind. What difference does it make to him?

Well, I mean, like, let's not, let's not do that to him. He's already got—

No, I'm saying—

He's already gotten a bad lot in life with that. Let's not—

He seems to be doing worse already.

You don't know why he's blind. What if he's blind from masturbation?

He uses his junk too much. It's time to get that thing off of there. It might cure him if you rip it off.

That's what I'm saying.

Rip off his dick. I can see.

That's all it takes sometimes. Um, yeah, I don't know why he didn't rip off more people's junk. I think that's really his move.

That, like, it should be. It should be his, his calling card.

That— nah, but I'll tell you what, if I get in a room with that guy, I'm gonna be so careful not to make him mad in any way. Yes, knowing that's his move, that's like the— yeah, no, we're not gonna fight.

Yeah, exactly. I mean, it's like his, his, uh, his reputation would definitely precede him everywhere.

I think he would just win any battle automatically.

Yeah, people would just be like, I'm done.

It's like, wait, who's coming to protect the, the heir to the fortune?

Dick Ripper?

Oh yeah, forget it. Let him just let her go. And we're not—

I'm glad they, they didn't go too far. Like, you wouldn't be able to go too far with that, that being a signature move. He just— it just rips it off. You can't like rip it off and like take a bite out of it or something like that.

Well, that's in the second one.

Jesus, Keith, calm down.

Yeah, that's too much, Keith.

But it would be cool if he did like ripped it off and did like a grenade move with it, you know? It's like explodes, throw it over, like hookshotted it over into a trash can or something like that.

Oh, he throws it away. Yeah, well, at least he'd have a good quality. He doesn't want to litter.

Now here's the thing.

Just in case somebody who he's done it to is still alive afterwards, he's just gonna like set it nicely off to the side for him.

Well, put it on ice. Like, get this to a hospital quick. Now, if you're remaking the Street Fighter and that's the angle you'd go with, which you should—

Which you should. It's for free, it's public domain, so we will. Yep.

Yeah.

What we need to do is just Street Fighter: Return of the Dick Ripper. So many creative dick rips, but then like what he does with it post-rip, right? The first one you rip off, the next one you like throw it in the garbage disposal, next one you smash it with a hammer. Like, I don't care, like just think of things to do.

Smashes it with a hammer after he grabbed it. Can you imagine your dick gets ripped off and you're like, that was horrible, ow, and then you turn and look at him and he holds it, he puts it on a table, grabs a hammer, just starts Slamming in through it. Like, is that not enough what you've done to me? You're not even hurting me anymore. You're just hurting me emotionally.

Well, now there might be some phantom limb stuff going on. You might still feel it.

I think I would feel it just mentally. Yeah. I think that's how you break me.

Feed it to the dog. I'm just trying to think of things you could do. Just all the different things.

Yeah.

Once you rip off the junk, what do you do with it?

He's kind of maybe he's like kind of like General Grievous. He keeps the collection on his belt.

Like Wookie scalps? Yeah.

Well, General Grievous did not collect Wookie scalps.

Padawan braids or whatever? No.

Oh.

Lightsabers.

Lightsabers.

Oh.

I don't know. I'm trying to think. Well, all those Sith did something different. I can't remember what General Grievous did.

Grievous collected Padawan brains.

Braids.

Braids. Oh, braids. Okay. Sorry.

And brains. Yeah.

He said kept 'em, kept 'em on like a little necklace around his, around his, uh, neck. Like the guys with like the ears and like Vietnam movies. Yeah.

Yeah. So that's all I'm saying.

All right. Well, public domain, when we start making our remake, I think we've got some good ideas.

Yeah. Hey, you public domain, we're talking to you.

Some good ideas. Nothing but good ideas.

Yeah, we'll make him like the greatest guy of all time. He's so nice, he's generous, and he wants to help everyone he can. But his signature move is ripping off people's dicks and slamming with a hammer, throwing it down the garbage disposal, eating it sometimes.

Why not? Just do whatever.

If Keith's in charge, that's what he'll do. Yeah, but he's like so nice besides that. Like, you really want to like this guy. He's a philanthropist.

He's like, he's just such the best of the best. And yeah, so doing all he can.

Just everything.

One time he rips off a dick and he like takes it to the hospital and does a transplant on another man who lost it.

His best friend lost his penis, so he rips off the dick of some bad guy until he can find the right—

until he can find the right—

That's the whole movie. He's trying to to find a suitable dick donor.

A suitable donor is a strong word, man.

Now there, now there's, there's a good name for like a band. Suitable Dick Donor.

No, that's not a good name.

No.

Yeah, that's a little, it's a little aggressive, Keith. Suitable Dick Donor.

That would be a good song title though.

Yeah. All right, well, we know what we thought.

We have a lot of thoughts today.

What did the internet have to say? Well, on January 23rd, 2004, Malcolm-Is-Mean had this to say. Viva Chiba. I have to say, it's an interesting—

I kind of wish he hadn't said that.

What?

I kind of wish he hadn't said that.

Viva Chiba?

Yeah.

Maybe he's talking about the paper towels and Sonny Chiba. Who knows? I have to say, Sonny Chiba is really amazing. He rises above the conventional status of actors in contemporary kung fu films. His characters always are very dark, and he generates a deeper persona than is usually seen in the genre. I have been a fan of his for quite some time. Parentheses. I even was given a t-shirt with a picture of him that says. badass mofo. Wow, that's pretty cool. Yeah, I agree. His films are unique because they play it off as film noir pieces set to kung fu subgenre rather than merely conform, parentheses, or at least some of his movies, end parentheses.

Interesting.

Now, in his cameo in Tarantino's Kill Bill, he steals the show. He never really got the recognition he deserves. He is the Fred Williamson or Clint Eastwood of his kind. 14 found that helpful. 8, not so much. 10 out of 10.

You know what though? He is kind of on something about the noir thing a little bit. I feel like this plot could be a noir film.

Yeah.

Where like there's a, there's a mystery around the assassination of some rich guy. Yeah, there's the daughter that's set up to inherit it, and then there's these people trying to get in there and take her away. Like, there could be— I could see that being a noir film. Yeah, there's a blind guy on the road.

Not to be outdone, on December 27th, 2003— must have got it for Christmas— Glurk had this to say: rock bottom garbage. If you have no standards for martial arts movies This might be for you. If you don't mind the camerawork missing some of the moves, you'll enjoy this movie. If you also don't care that some scenes are too dark for you to see anything, you'll have a good time with this film. If you casually dismiss the hero, parentheses, using that term extremely loosely, end parentheses, shrugging off injuries that would kill a mortal parentheses, getting tossed off a cliff, end parentheses, due to his training, you'll like this flick.

Okay.

If your concept of martial arts is guys flailing their arms around sloppily, you won't be disappointed. If you enjoy watching damage being done to human beings that can be best described as pornographic. I wonder what she means by pornographic. Run right out and rent this. See, that sells it right there. That's a selling sentence.

Yeah.

8 found that helpful, 12 not so much. 1 out of 10.

It's one of those reviews where it's like, if you hate crap— if you, if you love bad movies, you'll love this.

I hate reviews that are like that. If you like these things that are terrible, That— yeah, whatever, whatever. If you like terrible things, you'll love this movie. 1 out of 10. Rock bottom garbage.

Pornographic violence, LOL.

Pornographic sells it, sells it. If you enjoy watching damage being done to human beings that can best be described as pornographic—

I do kind of like that.

Sign me up.

I mean, it's all we've been talking about.

I know, I mean, we're talking about a whole series of movies based upon a guy who rips off one penis.

Sometimes he does too.

Yeah, why not rip them off? Rip them off, Street Fighter!

That could be the tagline. Rip them all. Yep, he got ripped off and now he rips off.

Oh, that— he's, he's on the— he's out for revenge because his junk got ripped off.

Well, I think he got ripped off on like the more like, you know, like financial side of the thing.

Wait a minute, I didn't get all the change back at the store. And now he's—

I think the tagline, don't get ripped off. You don't want to be on the sky.

Oh, I like that. Don't get ripped off.

Yeah, ultimate warning. Whatever you do, don't get ripped off. The Dick Ripper. I won't.

I'm gonna stay 100 miles away from that guy.

The Street Fighter colon Dick Rippening.

Dick Rippening?

I don't know.

Dick Rippening Origins.

Dick Rippening sounds like a person. Hi, my name is Richard Rippening.

Yep.

Call me Dick.

Oh God.

Dick Rippening Private Eye.

Yep. Oh, Private Dick. Dick Rippening. There we go.

Him, he teams up with, uh, Thucilla Jones a lot.

Steak Dick. Yep.

Yep.

All right, one dick to go. We did it! We got through the first week of month 8, and we're all intact. We're all intact as far as I know. Yeah.

So far.

Quick genital check.

Oh, thank God it's still there.

We made it.

Wait, what's that sound behind me?

No, it's Sunny Chiba from beyond the grave.

He got me. Oh, what's not—

what's he doing with the hammer? No, no, just salt in the wound. Yeah, and then he literally salts the wound.

Oh.

Oh, come on!

He comes back to me after he breaks it with the hammer, comes back and then starts assaulting me.

Yes. What that?

He assaults me and then he assaults me.

Yeah. I think that would be amazing.

All right.

Well, we did it. We got through W one. That means we're on to W two, which is the Terry W.

Oh man, it's gonna be fun.

Terry, what do you have in store for us next week?

Hmm. Okay. Well, this is. Keith's category was a little tricky.

Agreed.

This, I had to think about. I was gonna— I started looking at Bliss, but then something came to my mind pretty much immediately.

I mean, I didn't, I didn't do dick ripping, uh, subcategory.

No, there's endless movies with that.

I mean, I have seen it a few times. Um, so the movie that I thought of that this movie is in is Halloween, the 1970s Halloween. 2 little children are watching this film on TV for their Halloween celebration, and that movie is The Thing from Another World.

The Thing from Another World? I don't know this movie.

That's right, it's what the, uh, John Carpenter The Thing is technically a remake of.

Oh, okay.

The Thing from Another World. Awesome.

Oh, all right.

Last time Terry went back this far, we had classics.

Yeah, well, it was an Oscar-nominated film, Keith.

Yeah, Keith, Jesus Christ, man. All right, well, we did it. We got through The Street Fighter from 1974. We're on to The Thing from Another World from 1951. We just keep going further back in time.

The oldest film we've discussed? I think so. Well, no, I think Snake Pit was in the '40s. Yep. Dang it. Dang it.

Sorry, Terry. You tried.

I tried.

Well, I guess that leaves us with nothing to do but to end this the way we end everything.

I think that's true.

Oh, come on. Why do I say anything?

I don't know. I was blown away.

What could I say? It all seemed to make sense. You're taking away everything, and I can't deal with that.

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