Street Fighter's Last Revenge

The third entry in the inimitable Street Fighter series catches up with martial arts maestro Sonny Chiba's Takuma Tsurugi, now hired by the criminal Owada clan to rescue cassettes enabling the cheap manufacture of heroin. Double-crossed by the clan, Tsurugi takes off with the tapes and soon finds that a group of deadly assassins - led by Mr. Black's laser-shooting mariachi - are hot on his trail. Building on Chiba's tough-guy, anti-hero charisma, The Street Fighter's Last Revenge introduces a James Bond-spy thriller strand to the ever impressive kung-fu set-pieces, with Tsurugi uncovering through his formidable combat skills and mastery of disguises a drug conspiracy involving the criminal underworld and the local police. Fans of the Street Fighter series (and this entry spawned a popular TV spin-off) will enjoy the riffing on key elements from the earlier films whilst those drawn to the magnetic Chiba for the first time can simply sit back and enjoy the bravura b-movie inventiveness and unrelenting action.