Takuma Tsurugi
Takuma Tsurugi (剣 琢磨, Tsurugi Takuma) also referred to as Terī Tsurugi (剣 照り, Tsurugi Terī) as well as being written in the U.S. as Terry Sugury (テリー・スグリ, Suguri Terī) in the English dubbed version. Tsurugi is a martial arts expert and a professional mercenary for hire in The Street Fighter film trilogy, played by Japanese actor Sonny Chiba. As opposed to the many heroic protagonists portrayed in the chopsocky boom of the 1970s, Tsurugi is an amoral antihero who is not above committing wicked deeds in exchange for monetary rewards, although he possesses a strong sense of justice nonetheless.[1]
| Takuma Tsurugi | |
|---|---|
| First appearance | The Street Fighter |
| Last appearance | The Street Fighter's Last Revenge |
| Portrayed by | Sonny Chiba |
| In-universe information | |
| Nickname | "Real mean bastard" |
| Gender | Male |
| Occupation | Mercenary, Assassin, Bodyguard, Martial Artist |
| Family | Raizon Tsurugi (father, deceased), Unnamed Mother (deceased) |
| Nationality | Chinese-Japanese |
Fictional biography
Takuma Tsurugi was born to a Japanese father and a Chinese mother in 1939. In 1944, Tsurugi received martial arts training from his father at age 5, who had perfected his own unique martial art based on Karate and Shaolin Kung-Fu during the Second Sino-Japanese War, Tsurigi's father was tried and convicted of treason by the Japanese government due to his marriage to a Chinese woman, a charge based solely on racial prejudice. Despite his oaths of loyalty to the Japanese Empire, Tsurugi's father was executed by firing squad, an event that Tsurugi witnessed. The traumatic event proved to be the formative moment of Tsurugi's young life, causing him to grow up as a distrustful, amoral mercenary living only to prove his own fighting abilities which is from there on thirty years later in his life in 1974. Tsurugi has little in the way of a moral code, and will resort to any means necessary to collect on debts owed to him, including selling his debtors' family into sexual slavery.
Skills and abilities
Like his father, Takuma is a master of Japanese and Chinese martial arts. As a skilled assassin, he possesses intense fighting abilities who ferociously dispense brutal and deadly bodily harm towards his enemies. However, he's not afraid to fight dirty either. He has poked peoples eyes, cracked their necks by stomping on them with side of his shoe and even castrating an assailant with his bare hands. He is also extremely strong. On multiple occasions, he has fractured skulls from a single punch to the victim's head and has killed a man by ripping out his throat. He holds an incredible resilience to inflicted injuries, capable of withstanding from a bullet shot to his back and a stab wound in the abdomen all together. While he tends to engage in hand-to-hand combat with his enemies, he is also proficient in many Japanese weaponry arts including the Sai and throwing knives. On the field, he distinctly dons a black karategi, wrapped with a leather belt rather than a traditional obi (belt) and an armored wristbands to ward off sword attacks or deliver fatal forearm blows. He may also use disguises to infiltrate and reach his target undetected. He is usually wearing black M-1965 field jacket.
References
- "TWITCH TOP KILLS: THE STREET FIGHTER". Twitch Film. Retrieved 2011-02-14.