Word: chiba
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Heinz D. Chiba...
Well, it could have been the sounds of dozens of bones crunching as the hero (Sonny Chiba) dispatched platoons of hoodlums, or the blood that spurted into the camera from mouths and noses. Maybe the eye gougings did it. Certainly, by the time Chiba attacked a would-be rapist-leveling him with a flying fist and tearing his privates off, decorum and community standards had been sufficiently outraged so that a swift X was bestowed. Even more swiftly, the American distributors seized on this dubious honor and tried to turn it to their advantage...
Indeed, The Street Fighter has little else to offer in the way of novelty, save perhaps for Sonny Chiba, a stepchild of Jack Palance and Magog. The movie is Japanese in origin, not Chinese, as is customary, and contains some comic relief in the person of Chiba's chuckleheaded pal, called Ratnose. Connoisseurs of the etiquette of male affection in films will notice the hero's farewell to the dying Ratnose-giving his nostrils a hearty but melancholy pull-with some guarded delight...
...Chiba officials worry that wells may run dry just keeping grass green on the 22,000 acres of land devoted to golf...
...mountainous nation has long since been given over to cities and needed farms; by necessity, many greens have been put on hillsides, where they result in the destruction of forests, blocked streams and erosion. "There's something definitely abnormal about this, a bit of sheer outlandishness," says Chiba prefecture's governor, Taketo Tomono, an occasional golfer. To discourage the building of more courses, Tomono's government has stipulated that they must meet severe-perhaps impossible -ecological standards. "It will be tough indeed," he boasts, "for a new course to open up in our prefecture." Following Tomono...