Shin'ichi "Sonny" Chiba's fighting style was less balletic than it was breathtakingly brutal. Chiba, a star of martial arts cinema in his native Japan, made his name by landing heart-stopping punches ...

A karate tournament is crashed by an enigmatic martial artist calling himself Ōyama ( Chiba), who arrives in tattered rags and beats all who dare challenge him. But Ōyama’s entrance into the world of ...