If you loved Irezumi, try The Street Fighter

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

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Irezumi

1966 · dir. Yasuzō Masumura

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The Street Fighter

1974 · dir. Shigehiro Ozawa

What they share

Theysit in Crime / Drama / Thriller territory. If that's the register that drew you to Irezumi, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

What The Street Fighter is

Tokyo’s neon drips onto July humidity, a single spent match twitching in the gutter. The heiress moves alone, designer suitcase clicking past yakuza billboards. A man in a grey overcoat trails, then sprints. A Shigehiro Ozawa fight reel, brutal and stylized as 70s bruise-purple vinyl.

If you loved Irezumi, try The Street Fighter

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What they share

What The Street Fighter is

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