6.9/10
358
9 user 14 critic

Chokugeki! Jigoku-ken (1974)

R | | Action | 1978 (USA)
Chokugeki! Jigoku-ken Poster
Three street toughs are hired to take down a Tokyo drug dealer in this hard-hitting Toei karate action film.

Director:

Writer:

Stars:

, , | See full cast & crew »
Reviews

On Disc

at Amazon

Photos

Add Image Add an image

Do you have any images for this title?
Learn more

People who liked this also liked... 













◄ Prev 6 Next 6 ►

Next »
Yasagure anego den: Sôkatsu rinchi (1973)
Action | Crime | Drama
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6.6/10 X  

Ocho gets abducted by a yakuza clan that uses a gang of women to smuggle drugs in their vaginas. Finding out that the kingpin had killed the last boss and abducted his daughter, Ocho joins forces with the drug mules against the clan.

Director: Teruo Ishii
Stars: Reiko Ike, Makoto Aikawa, Arumi Kuri
Next »
Horrors of Malformed Men (1969)
Horror
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6.7/10 X  

After escaping from an insane asylum, a medical student assumes the identity of a mysterious dead man, who appeared to be his doppelganger, and gets lured to a sinister island ruled by a mad scientist and his malformed men.

Director: Teruo Ishii
Stars: Teruo Yoshida, Yukie Kagawa, Teruko Yumi
Next »
Satsujin ken 2 (1974)
Action | Crime | Drama
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6.4/10 X  

Takuma "Terry" Tsurugi returns. In this sequel, he sets out to bust up a phony charity put together by the Yakuza.

Director: Shigehiro Ozawa
Stars: Shin'ichi Chiba, Claude Gagnon, Masafumi Suzuki
Next »
Kill, Baby... Kill! (1966)
Certificate: GP Horror | Mystery
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.1/10 X  

A Carpathian village is haunted by the ghost of a murderous little girl, prompting a coroner and a medical student to uncover her secrets while a witch attempts to protect the villagers.

Director: Mario Bava
Stars: Giacomo Rossi Stuart, Erika Blanc, Fabienne Dali
Next »
The Shogun's Samurai (1978)
Action | Adventure | Drama
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.2/10 X  

Following the death of the second Tokugawa shogun, it is revealed that he was poisoned by retainers of his son Iemitsu in hopes of gaining him the shogunate despite the stammer and ... See full summary »

Director: Kinji Fukasaku
Stars: Kinnosuke Nakamura, Shin'ichi Chiba, Hiroki Matsukata
Next »
The Eiger Sanction (1975)
Action | Crime | Thriller
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6.4/10 X  

A classical art professor and collector, who doubles as a professional assassin, is coerced out of retirement to avenge the murder of an old friend.

Director: Clint Eastwood
Stars: Clint Eastwood, George Kennedy, Vonetta McGee
Next »
Shivers (1975)
Horror | Sci-Fi
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6.5/10 X  

The residents of a suburban high-rise apartment building are being infected by a strain of parasites that turn them into mindless, sex-crazed fiends out to infect others by the slightest sexual contact.

Director: David Cronenberg
Stars: Paul Hampton, Joe Silver, Lynn Lowry
Next »
Shusse komori-uta (1967)
Crime
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 -/10 X  
Director: Ryuichi Takamori
Stars: Shin'ichi Chiba, Tetsurô Tanba, Hiroyuki Sanada
Next »
The Street Fighter (1974)
Action | Crime | Thriller
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.1/10 X  

Tough karate master Terry Tsurugi takes it upon himself to protect a late businessman's daughter from the Yakuza.

Director: Shigehiro Ozawa
Stars: Shin'ichi Chiba, Goichi Yamada, Etsuko Shiomi
Next »
Rabid (1977)
Horror | Sci-Fi
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6.4/10 X  

A young woman develops a taste for human blood after undergoing experimental plastic surgery, and her victims turn into rabid, blood-thirsty zombies who proceed to infect others, which turns into a city-wide epidemic.

Director: David Cronenberg
Stars: Marilyn Chambers, Frank Moore, Joe Silver
Next »
Uchu kara no messeji (1978)
Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 4.9/10 X  

In this Star Wars take-off, the peaceful planet of Jillucia has been nearly wiped out by the Gavanas, whose leader takes orders from his mother (played by a comic actor in drag) rather than... See full summary »

Director: Kinji Fukasaku
Stars: Vic Morrow, Shin'ichi Chiba, Philip Casnoff
Next »
Sengoku jieitai (1979)
Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6.6/10 X  

A squadron of Japanese Self-Defense Force soldiers find themselves transported through time to their country's warring states era, when rival samurai clans were battling to become the ... See full summary »

Director: Kôsei Saitô
Stars: Shin'ichi Chiba, Jun Etô, Moeko Ezawa
Edit

Cast

Cast overview:
... Ryuichi Koga (as Sonny Chiba)
Eiji Gô ... Ichiro Sakura
Yutaka Nakajima ... Emi (as Doris Nakajima)
... Toga as a boy (as Hiroyuki Shimosawa)
... Karate teacher
Makoto Satô ... Takeshi Hayato
Ryô Ikebe ... Arashiyama
Masahiko Tsugawa ... Mario Mizuhara
Michitarô Mizushima ... Hakusessai Koga
... Lone wolf
Hideo Murota ... Boss
Meika Seri ... Woman
Takashi Hio ... Bunshô Chin (as Kôji Hio)
Hiroshi Nawa
See full cast »
Edit

Storyline

Three street toughs are hired to take down a Tokyo drug dealer in this hard-hitting Toei karate action film.

Plot Summary | Add Synopsis

Plot Keywords:

karate | hand to hand combat | martial arts master | martial artist | martial arts training | See All (38) »

Taglines:

The meanest Chiba movie yet! See more »

Genres:

Action

Certificate:

R | See all certifications »

Parents Guide:

Add content advisory for parents »
Edit

Details

Country:

Language:

Release Date:

1978 (USA)  »

Also Known As:

Direct Hit! Hell Fist  »

Company Credits

Production Co:

 »
Show more on  »

Technical Specs

Runtime:

Sound Mix:

Color:

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1
See  »
Edit

Did You Know?

Connections

Spoofed in Za pureigaaruzu: Hadaka no yoru no nôsatsu-ken (1993) See more »

Frequently Asked Questions

This FAQ is empty. Add the first question.

User Reviews

 
THIS is cinema.
22 August 2006 | by – See all my reviews

I'm currently battling a long standing and gravely serious addiction to 70's B-pictures. Blaxploitation, kung-fu, pinky violence, spaghetti westerns, monster movies, Russ Meyer flicks, Italian crime movies - the effects of such an addiction can be gargantuan. However, the crime of many artifacts from the dead era of true 'trash' cinema is that they simply tend not to quite live up to their own hype. See, all these movies had was poster art, outrageous titles, taglines and perhaps one star attraction (like Sid Haig, Franco Nero or star of The Executioner, Sonny Chiba).

However, there is on occasional a movie that comes you way which meets and exceeds your wildest fantasies - Mario Bava's Rabid Dogs, Larry Cohen's Q The Winged Serpent, Giuliano Montaldo's heist film Grand Slam, Sergio Corbucci's Death Rides a Horse - these are all movies that are actually as good as they sound. The Executioner is one such film - it will surpass your wildest grindhouse dreams.

This movie is so stacked with raw humour, outrageous action scenes and sheer entertainment factor that it almost goes beyond belief. I simply can't overstate the pleasure that awaits you with this one - get some friends together, get some beers out, maybe roll yourselves a 'camberwell carrot' or two, and bask in the absurdity and outlandishness of this - Sonny Chiba's FINEST, most hilarious film.

It'll will restore your faith in exploitation films... and maybe, just maybe it will be the best 90 minutes of your entire life.
17 of 21 people found this review helpful.  Was this review helpful to you? | Report this
Review this title | See all 9 user reviews »
Getting Started | Contributor Zone »

Contribute to This Page

Rent or Buy Popular Movies With Prime Video

Explore popular movies available to rent or buy on Prime Video.

Visit Prime Video to explore more titles


Clear your history

Recently Viewed