Violent Fighters
1979, Japanese. Directed by Teruo Ishii.
In 1979 Toei president Shigeru Okada saw the future. More precisely, he saw Walter Hill's The Warriors in the US prior to its Japanese opening. Okada rushed back to make his own version. "Towards the 80! Our era! Now filming!" the trailer exclaimed. The plot is roughly the same as in The Warriors except this time the chased gang has to make it from Kobe to Tokyo and the leader's got the enemy's sister handcuffed to him. Hardly great cinema, but undeniably entertaining with frantic pacing, loads of music and even a massive roller blade street chase! As a vision of future, it wasn't too far off if the future was defined as 80s rock, bad fashion and comic book films.
- Runtime
- 1h 26m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- Japanese
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- Released
- 6 October 1979
- Original title
- 暴力戦士
- Country
- Japan
- Written by
- Teruo Ishii, Nobuaki Nakajima
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Violent Fighters runs 86 minutes (1h 26m).
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Violent Fighters isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 6 October 1979. (Checked 9 November 2026.)
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If you liked Violent Fighters, try Convict, The Enforcer, The Perfect Weapon.
Who directed Violent Fighters?
Violent Fighters (1979) was directed by Teruo Ishii and stars Ken Tanaka, Masanori Machida, Kazuo Kainose.