The Street Fighter (Japanese: ザ • ストリー • トファイター, Hepburn: Za Sutorīto Faitā) is a Japanese martial arts film produced by Toei Company Ltd. and released in 1974, originally released in Japan as . It was released in the US by New Line Cinema and became one of the first films to be a commercial success for the distributor. It is notable as the first film to receive an X-rating in the United States solely for violence. In the UK it was originally released as Kung Fu Streetfighter (カンフー・ストリートファイター, Kanfū Sutorītofaitā), presumably to avoid confusion with the Charles Bronson movie "Hard Times" which was initially released as "The Streetfighter" in the UK.