Sister Street Fighter Sue Shiomi & Sonny Chiba (1974)

Synopsis

Sister Street Fighter ( Japanese: 女必殺拳, Hepburn: On'na Hissatsu-ken; lit. "Woman's Deadly Fist") is a 1974 Japanese martial arts film directed by Kazuhiko Yamaguchi. Produced and distributed by Toei Company, it is a standalone spin-off of The Street Fighter (1974), and is the first entry in a trilogy of films starring Etsuko Shihomi as Shorinji Kempo practitioner Kōryū Li. It was followed by Sister Street Fighter: Hanging by a Thread (1974) and The Return of the Sister Street Fighter (1975). Plot When Mansei Li, a shorinji kempo champion and Hong Kong drug agent, goes missing during an investigation into the activities of a dummy corporation called Central Export, his sister, Kōryū, is called in to continue the investigation in his place. She travels to Yokohama to follow up Mansei's last lead at a nightclub called Mandarin. In Yokohama, she visits her uncle, who operates a restaurant, and her cousins Jirō and Reiko. At Club Mandarin, she receives a red rose, the signal to look for Mansei's partner in the investigation, Fanshin, a stripper at the club. When assassins for Central Export abduct Fanshin, Kōryū takes them on single-handedly, but they manage to capture Fanshin and load her in their car, which is then hijacked by shorinji kempo student Seiichi Hibiki, who proceeds to transport her to the ballet studio operated by his girlfriend, Shinobu. Furious at his minions for failing him, Ryōzō Hayashi hires a mercenary, Kazunao Inubashiri, to spy on the shorinji kempo…

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Running time

80 minutes

Language

English

Collection

Feature Films

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• Sister Street Fighter