the best thing you can say about this movie be that if you be a fan of sonny chiba and this movie give you lot of him . chiba make speech while chiba pose while chiba sneer while chiba glare at the camera while chiba punch and kick the living sushi out of a whole bunch of bad guy while chiba sits around on couch and chair and look thoughtful or pensive while chiba drive his car . i enjoy chiba a an actor and a martial artist . but even for a chiba fan and this movie may have a little too much sonny chiba . it obviously something of a vanity vehicle for him . and no and i wouldn not put street fighter in the same category and because in sf he play a ruthless and amoral anti hero and he share the camera with an intriguing cast of friend and foe . here and he front and center almost all the time and and he try to be batman and captain america and bruce lee roll into one . toshiro mifune and chow yun fat couldn not pull this off for the length of an entire feature film and and sonny just kind of wear out his welcome . at least he could have change out of his suit once in a while . the movie be far mess up by an entirely gratuitous and badly do introductory sequence ( apparently tack on to the front of the film for the american version ) and a goofy cheer ( viva . chiba . viva . chiba . ) that start thing on the wrong foot . there be some astoundingly amateurish and inappropriate dubbing sonny ( or his usual english stand in ) apparently couldn not be bother to do the vocal for the american version and so they get some poor dope with an entirely different and smooth voice and dialect that be quite jar come from the face we all know and love from street fighter . even with all those flaw and the overexposure and this could still be a minor classic and but the camera work and the fight scene be hopelessly cheesy . i be willing to believe that karate actually work if someone as amazing a chiba character be suppose to be do it and but the director and cameraman hedge their bet by chop and edit fight scene with a weed whacker so you can not really see what go on most of the time . it not all bad represent there be some decent shot and composition and and there at least one memorable and nightmarish moment when the bad guy appear in the client bedroom in a genuinely inventive way . and a for the actual plot . forget it . for a bodyguard and chiba character be something of an idiot . the screenplay depend on his make mistake and oversight that repeatedly place him ( and his client ) in perilous situation so he can fight his way out of them and and after 30 minute and it strain even the most credulous judgment to think that this guy be suppose to be any good . ( also and if his character be really out to destroy the japanese drug trade and he would have take his client by her neck 10 minute into the screenplay and shake her until her teeth chatter like a castanet until she spill her little secret . and a whole lot of pointless death and conflict would have be avoid . ) still and a a whole this movie be a long way from the bottom of the barrel . it still sonny chiba and and he still fun to watch . i pay a buck to get this off the bargain dvd rack at a local mega mart and and i feel it be worth watch once .