ScreenAnarchy Top Kills: The STREET FIGHTER

If Jackie Chan is the king of Kung Fu comedy then on the flip side of the spectrum, Sonny Chiba must surely be the master of mad and merciless massacre (heh, try saying that twice quickly). Back during the chopsocky boom of the 70's, long before Steven Seagal first brought his brand of dirty and vicious bodily harm style of fighting or long before Tony Jaa first burst onto the scene by cracking skulls open with brutal elbows and knees blows that had audiences cringing and going "Oh shit!", Chiba established himself as arguably the original baddest and most violent sonofabitch to ever threw a punch on screen. Its all due to his breakthrough role as Takuma Tsurugi (or "Terry" in the US dubbed version) in the Japanese cult classic The Street Fighter which ultimately led to two more gory-filled sequels. Self-nicknamed as "Real mean bastard", these words couldn't be further from the truth. Chiba plays a cold-hearted mercenary for the Japanese criminal underworld who dispense his Karate skills with craze animalistic ferocity and aggression, leaving his unfortunate victims horribly maim or suffer excruciating death.  The film was so notorious for its savagery at the time, it became the first to ever receive an X rating solely for the violence alone, thus gaining an international following among Martial Arts fans.

While there is a laundry list of murderous mayhem from The Street Fighter trilogy that I could have pick for my ScreenAnarchy Top Kill - from striking a head so hard, the impact causes the eyeballs to gouge out of the socket or ripping the Adam's Apple clean off the throat but I would be remiss to not go with the infamous scene when Tsurugi comes to the aid of a damsel in distress from a would-be rapist and executing the dreaded "monkey steal peaches" technique where he castrates his opponent with his bare hands. Now how's that for chivalry?