The Street Fighter

The Streetfighter is notorious. It was the first film ever to receive an X-rating in the US solely for its intense violence and gore. At the same time, it marked the absolute breakthrough for legendary Japanese martial artist Sonny Chiba. The film spawned two direct sequels and laid the groundwork for the iconic arcade game of the same name.

Riding the wave of Bruce Lee’s Enter The Dragon, the so-called "exploitation" and "grindhouse" cinema had reached its absolute peak. The world was ready for Chiba’s raw brand of action. Yet, Chiba was no cheap Bruce Lee clone looking to cash in on a trend. Where Lee shines in elegance and Jackie Chan excels in comic playfulness, Chiba rules with pure, unrestrained, barbaric fury. The moment his character Terry Tsurugi cuts loose, nobody is safe—neither his enemies nor the bystanders. When another character calls him "an animal" mid-film, Chiba, snarling and growling, does absolutely nothing to contradict her.

It is exactly this ruthless ferocity that cemented the film’s cult status. Think of scenes where Chiba castrates a rapist with his bare hands, or where a single blow cuts directly to an X-ray shot of a shattering skull before the opponent collapses, blood gushing from his mouth. The tone is set.

The plot? A textbook cocktail of honor, revenge, and betrayal, settled entirely with fists and feet. Chiba plays Terry Tsurugi: a cynical assassin-for-hire who cares only for sex, money, and fighting. He is hired to break a condemned martial arts master out of prison. When his demands for a higher fee are denied, he coldly abandons the job. But after the Yakuza and the Hong Kong mafia kidnap the condemned man's sister, Tsurugi gets dragged into a bloody gang war anyway.

About NAH

The heavy task of providing this skull-crushing action classic with a fresh live score belongs to an artist whose love for obscure horror and B-movies bleeds through every single track.

NAH (aka Michul Kuun) is a Philadelphia-born, Antwerp-based percussionist, producer, and visual artist. Since dropping his first demos in 2011, he has been carving out his own hyper-dynamic sound from textured noise and genre-smashing percussive rhythms. His roots? Deeply planted in DIY punk, noise, avant-jazz, electronics, and the restless urgency of hip-hop.
Armed with little more than a drum kit and an arsenal of samplers, he channels a frenetic live energy that teeters on the razor-thin edge of raw aggression and playful chaos. In recent years, alongside producing his own work, he has collaborated with heavyweights like Wiki, MIKE, Moor Mother, Iggor Cavalera, Evicshen, Cities Aviv, and Obongjayar.