Takuma Tsurugi

Takuma Tsurugi
First appearance	The Street Fighter
Last appearance	The Street Fighter's Last Revenge
Portrayed by	Sonny Chiba
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Nickname(s)	"Real mean bastard"
Gender	Male
Occupation	Mercenary, Assassin, Bodyguard, Martial Artist
Family	Raizo Tsurugi (father, deceased), Unnamed Mother (deceased)
Nationality	Chinese-Japanese

Takuma Tsurugi (剣琢磨, Tsurugi Takuma^?, referred as "Terry" Tsurugi in the U.S. dubbed version) is an amoral anti-hero in The Street Fighter film trilogy, played by Japanese actor Sonny Chiba. He is a martial arts expert and a mercenary for hire. As opposed to many heroic figures portrayed in the chopsocky boom of the 1970s, Tsurugi is an amoral antihero who is willing to murder his allies if they are unable to pay for his services.

Takuma Tsurugi was born to a Japanese father and a Chinese mother sometime prior to the 1940s. At an early age, he received martial arts training from his father, who had perfected a unique martial art that fused karate with sanshou. 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. 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.

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