The Street Fighter Trilogy - The Cinema Snob 

God, Sonny Chiba’s crazed smile is still terrifying nearly 50 years later.

Sonny's intensity just explodes through the screen in this trilogy.

I have to admit the name Street Fighter made me think of a different feature but this works too. With that written rest in peace Sonny Chiba and Raul Julia.

Jesus Christ! Forget Street Fighter! This is Mortal Kombat! Sonny Chiba is kicking some ass up in heaven now. RIP.

After Bruce Lee... Before Jackie Chan... There was Sonny Chiba! Today's movies have x-ray skull smashing, bathing in alcohol, vampire fangs, sex slavery, and mariachis with lasers!

This right here is some Boogie Down Bronx film snob approved deliciousness. About darn time a true connoisseur like The Cinema Snob found time to acknowledge the glory and splendor of Sonny Chiba. LONG LIVE SONNY CHIBA! 我は感銘

This movie looks completely.......AWESOME!!!’

R.i.p. Sonny Chiba

The uncut version of "Samurai Reincarnation"/"Makai Tensho" was so influential that it inspired "Ninja Scroll" in anime, "Samurai Shodown" in video games, and also "Kill Bill" with the blacksmith who forges almighty katana. Yagyu Jubei was one of Chiba's best performances. May he R.I.P..

The American dub of The Street Fighter's Last Revenge did more than just re-edit some sequences out of order. The dub completely re-writes the plot. The Japanese version has Tsurugi seeking to maintain possession of a single tape, not two, that contains a potentially damaging confession of a powerful politician. The Japanese version has nothing whatsoever to do with synthetic heroin. It's worth seeing in its original subtitled version, as it is easily the best of the sequels.

Man, I thought I was the only one who remember these movies. Thanks for covering this Brad, cause Sonny did more than just Kill Bill which is the only film I seen mentioned with his death.

I want Snob episodes for every movie with a trailer shown in this review, so bad.

I can hear the bad guys saying "Why do we keep using weapons from the Edo period!?"

I bought the first two Street Fighter films on a Double Feature DVD back in 2003. It was only a dollar, and it was one of the best blind buys I ever made.

I first learned about Sonny Chiba from a member of a Capcom _Street Fighter_ fan site twenty years ago; bought up as many DVDs and VHSes I could find of his. R.I.P. to one _Hell_ of a dynamic actor and athelete. (Which reminds me, I still need to watch _The Storm Riders_ sometime!)

Was not expecting the trilogy, Sonny chiba deserves his own month! It's crazy I bought the first two films at a dollar store of all places.

Thank you Brad, for introducing me to Sonny Chiba.

4:33 "How do you know he's possessed? Gimme five!" "Don't take another bite!"

Sonny Chiba is playing a character named Takuma, this officially makes this trilogy a prequel to the Art of Fighting games.

PLEASE do Wolf Guy: Enraged Lycanthrope, Karate Bearfighter, and Golgo 13: Assignment Kowloon for more Chiba badassery!!!

I love how Snob is just so HAPPY watching this, forget the sarcasm of his usual videos, here it's just sheer joy! 42:02-well, why not, he's also played Golgo 13, a variant of Bond in his own way!

So my first introduction to Sonny Chiba was in MST3k. RIP Space Chief!

Chiba's smile is just so gleefully evil! So much fun!

This (The 1st one) was the first movie I’ve seen where someone uses a sai the right way!

First time I saw The Street Fighter was in my high school physics class. Teacher didn't feel like teaching one day, so he just put the movie on and let us watch it.

I was hoping you would review these one day! Rest in peace to the legendary Sonny Chiba.

R.i.p Sonny Chiba.

Neil Breen needs a movie like this.

Immortal Combat wasn’t too bad. It had Roddy piper, Chiba, Meg foster and tiny lister jr.

always weird seeing the snob stocked on a movie.

not gonna lie, I saw this title and thought it was the "street fighter" trilogy, not "The street fighter" trilogy. A good watch regardless.

11:04 Eye-gouging? What is this? A Lucio Fulci movie?

10:46 Hey is that where Mortal Kombat got the x-ray attack from?😃😎

Makes me nostalgic for the Blip days.

When you expected Street Fighter but got Mortal Kombat.

It's times like this that I wish Kung-Tai Ted wasn't dead from overdosing on 80's Dan's cocaine.

I thought that the street fighter theme was a cover of "you've got hide your love away" by the beatles at first.

He always looked like he was having to hold a dump in the middle of a fight. Loved these movies

Only a true legend can curate a legend. Thanks bro 🙌 👏 🙏 😤.

Dear god that review was all sorts of fun. My favorite in quite a while.

I remember buying a bargin basement dvd copy of Return Of The Street Fighter in my teens in the mid-00's on a lazy Saturday afternoon and loving how over the top and utterly brutal it was

42:23 is just... I'm speechless but in pain from laughing so hard.

Sonny Chiba is badass in The Street Fighter and of course he Hattori Hanzo. He was my favorite guy in Kill Bill vol. 1.

Holy shit I didn’t Robert Shaye of New line Cinema was involved with Sonny Chiba. I was just rewatching the Nightmare on Elm Street doc Never Sleep Again the other day.

I really enjoyed the Mas Oyama karate trilogy that Chiba did.

Legends never die.... We’ll see you around, Sonny

I couldn't see your review until I had seen these myself. So glad I did. These movies are awesome.

41:54 It's The Tapatio-man in his first performance in the "White vs Brack show"! "If anyone thinks they are more mexican than me, I'd like to see it!" Will Sonny Chiba be able to recover the heroin recipe/Kidz Bop mix-tape from the bad guys or will he be too busy calling the "Hot Dudes Hotline" to save the day?

actually, Night Flight introduced me to this series before True Romance, but True Romance is one of my all time top 10 movies.

Had a sonny Chiba collection. Damn now where did I put it?

I give this cinema snob review 10 out of 10 and the prestigious Lloyd seal of approval!

How dare these 70's movies rip off a game franchise from the 90's? Well technically the 1st 1 was made in '87, but we don't talk about that one. There wasn't even a single Shoryuken... for shame.

27:04-That's Samurai Reincarnation-one of the inspirations for Ninja Scroll, but was more directly made again as Ninja Resurrection. Saw that years ago.

My favorite movies with Sunny Chiba include Bullet Train, and Time Slip/GI Samurai . Also I love his appearance in Kill Bill One .

I didn't know he passed away. R.I.P. Sonny Chiba. May you continue to kick ass and be awesome in the afterlife.

8:07 how can you not show the best part? “Don’t ever let anyone…. _BEAT… you!”_

I had to stop this so I could watch these movies again. Hope you do Sister Street Fighter in the future!

Hail and farewell to this legend of most vicious martial arts cinema. Thank you, Cinema Snob, for this threefold tribute to the meanest guy in the world and the masterful Sonny Chiba!

“Don Costello” “HEY ABBOTT!!”

I loved every minute of this. The movies are truly complimented by your narrative, “greatest thing ever” indeed.

28:14 "Baby you must be a stack of concrete because I'm going to crush that ass."😂😆

Thank you for this. This rates in your top five reviews for me. And great Bruce Leung reference!!

Wow, the prequels to the 'Street Fighter' movie were WEEEEIIIRRRRD. (But for me, it was Tuesday)

Doris Nakajima is so amazing! Also the first movie's theme was the first tune I ever learned on guitar. Thank you for an awesome video!! Become a number one man!!

Had no idea he had died . Great stuff !!! Thanks for the memories.

You're spoiling us with incredible content

So, The Streetfighter's Last Revenge is the Shaft In Africa of the trilogy.

Wow, this is truely a Snob highlight. I need to see these movies now.

I own the first two movies as part of a DVD pack that includes The Big Boss, Shogun's Ninja and Ninja Wars along with a number of Z-grade Bruceploitation movies.

This is neat and all but when does he learn the Hadouken?

Legend of the Eight Samurai is a movie I particularly enjoy that Sonny Chiba is in.

Thanks for showing this to us Snob. I would like to own the original 3 plus sister street fighter one day.

One of Snob's best videos, this.

Wow so want to see these now. I never knew this is what sonny was known for also he was in invasion of the Neptune men?

I am going to enjoy this one very much. Have my thanks, Sir Snob.

Love the snob ninja throwback in the thumbnail

Sonny Chiba WINS

Oh yeah I just love this type of filming maybe it's because I am nostalgic for it, so I more than likely have a biase opinion.

Thank you for this review Brad. It helped keep my sanity while staining my deck in 95 degree weather...

Is Samurai Reincarnation the movie involving undead famous warriors, an evil Amakusa Shirou, and an eyepatch sporting Musashi Miyamoto? I know the Shimousa Chapter of FGO was heavily influenced by a movie where that stuff happens, but I don't know the name.

Awesum review ... gotta luv Sonny Chiba ...

Man, I managed to see all three of these movies as a teenager. I think my brother may still have them. Anyway - there are pieces I'm remembering as I watch this review. Mainly, the shit eating grin, the ripping out of the throat, the escaping into the ceiling, the bizarre spinning foot/punch death at the end of the third one, and of course - that kickass theme. I remember that theme for damn sure. Thanks for this one, Snob - now I really want to see these movies again.

I only knew him from Kill Bill.

I herd of these movies because of True Romance

Seeing the last revenge: Why is this the room but better

I remember that movies) What a blast from the past

Why Sonny Chiba and Toshiro Mifune never did movie together? That would be badassery overload!

Excellent video mann. I too will recommend SAMURAI REINCARNATION. Its fckn beautiful!

Damn!! One great legend has passed on 😔. Sonny Chiba has made a mark in the martial arts and sword play genre during the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s, and he even went on into the modern times with Kill Bill. As Terry, he was one of my absolute favorite action movie characters. I always loved his exaggerated poses, I find myself doing those when getting ready for work some times lol 😂. God I’m gonna miss Chiba.

I choose to believe he returned to Oyama still practicing by the sea. You must become NUMBER1MAN!!!

If Bruce Lee was "the Fred Astaire of martial arts" (Pauline Kael), Sonny Chiba was the genre's Clint Eastwood!

I always really liked Sonny Chiba in the 1979 film G.I. Samurai. The plot of a military group getting somehow sent back in time to the samurai era I always thought was interesting.

I've never seen these movies so I actually gasped at 28:48 when Junjo appeared lol

Is that theme the same as the old school Battlestar Galactica? It sounds REALLY similar.

Wow, the REX DART, ESKIMO SPY movies are more violent than I thought.

In the first movie, I was one hundred percent on Junjo’s side. I was hardcore rooting for him.

Admittedly I watched these movies way too young in the 90s. It was a couple years after watching some of Bruce Lee’s movies. I think I was 10 or 11 when I saw the first Street Fighter. Sonny Chiba was the man for me and my buddies at school!

I have high hopes for the return of an awkwardly dubbed martial arts movie reviewer. Will he have a cameo?

10:46 That's badass. So that's where MK x rays came from

who else thinks the cinema snob sounds like Jack Nicholson?