Sister Street Fighter

1976 "He's a one man army. She's a one woman death squad."
6.4| 1h26m| R| en| More Info
Released: 01 February 1976 Released
Producted By: Toei Company
Country: Japan
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Revenue: 0
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Li Mansei is a martial-arts champion turned undercover agent. When he is captured by a drug lord, his sister Li Koryu turns to his former martial-arts school, including the powerful Sonny Kawasaka, for help in the inevitable battle royale.

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Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.
Supelice Dreadfully Boring
ChanFamous I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.
StyleSk8r At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.
unbrokenmetal Koryu (Etsuko Shihomi) is sent from Hong Kong to Japan to investigate the disappearance of her brother who was trying to find proof against drug smugglers. She needs to fight against their boss who once says "I like unusual humans and keep them", and assembled all kinds of strange looking fighters therefore, from a guy with a Mohawk and arrows to a jungle women squad. Some of his guards wear a black mask for no reason at all, as they take it off in every fight, anyway.Koryu's almost only friends are at a Shorinji Kempo school. Sonny Chiba, star of the original "Street Fighter", appears there as well. Shorinji Kempo differs from many other kinds of Martial arts by its strong Buddhist idea of happiness. Many viewers were irritated about the mirrored swastika symbol they use in the movie. Although it is true that such a cross was a symbol of good luck in ancient times, Shorinji Kempo was invented as late as 1947, when the overwhelming majority of people had an entirely different understanding for the symbol, thus it was not clever to use. They must have been told because they changed it meanwhile...The notorious Norifumi Suzuki wrote on the screenplay for "Sister Street Fighter", but didn't direct in the end. It's still bewildering enough, though! 18 year old Etsuko Shihomi in the title role looks so innocent, but really explodes with energy in the fights. Mind you, nowadays they often cast models for such films who look good in the close-ups, while fast cutting has to hide the fact that they know little about martial arts (check out the lady in Jackie Chan's „New Police Story" for a typical example). In 1974, Etsuko had to do everything for real, hiding the bruises of the battles, and the result is still impressive today. I voted 8/6/8/7 for the 4 "Sister Street Fighter" movies.
winner55 A guilty pleasures. A terrible movie, little more than a live-action comic-book. Sets, costume design, editing, acting - all pure dreck. No continuity at all, the heroine appears to be killed off a couple of times in the film, & I can't even provide a spoiler telling how she escapes - because the film never explains how she escapes, she just does! BUT - the martial arts action is fast, furious, & occasionally almost believable; as for Sue Shiomi, she is only one of 2 female martial artists (the other Polly Shaun-Kwan)that I would call CUTE - in a positive sense: it's hard not to like this actress, even if she can't act, she's that appealing, & in an innocent, girl-next-door kind of way. Never a dull moment, & a heap o' fun; but really cannot be rated, even as a genre film - you either love to waste your time on it or you got something better to do. (Beware - although by same crew, not really a "Streetfighter" sequel, & not a Sonny Chiba film.)
AwesomeWolf Version: Avenue One DVD. Dub only.'Sister Street Fighter' was basically made to show much arse Etsuko Shihomi kicks. Sonny Chiba appears in this third Streetfighter installment for only 10 minutes, letting Etsuko do most of the arse-kicking.Lee long is a martial artist who the Hong Kong police use to help stop a Japanese drug-ring importing drugs into Hong Kong. When he goes missing, its up to his sister Tina (played by Etsuko Shihomi) to go to Japan and find him. She gets help from Lee's martial arts school (which just so happens to include Sonny Chiba) to free Lee and generally kick arse.The story is your average "relative has been kidnapped and our hero/ine must save them". But who needs a decent plot when you've got cool fight scenes, bad dubbing, and an 'interesting' array of bad dudes and dudettes (to say the least). Avenue One re-mastered the movie for their DVD and included some special features, yet they couldn't do a subtitle job? I would have taken this movie a bit more seriously (and thus given it a higher rating) if it had been subbed, and not dubbed. Oh well, at least the dub was funny-bad.Good action movie. 6/10. Check it out if you're a fan of Etsuko Shihomi.
Fazeo Ahhh a true classic, a cinematic masterpiece of epic proportions. This was part of the Sonny Chiba Street Fighter series from the mid 70s. This one is my favorite because Sonny takes a back seat to Sue Shiomi who plays the main character Sister Streetfighter. Another colorful hypnotic Japanese film full of outrageous dialogue, tons of karate action, and a whole slew of various ancient martial arts weapons are shown in full force throughout. I show this film a lot to friends, it's a rollicking good time and always provides big laughs. All you gotta know about this film is that it has classic dialogue like "Save the wigs!" in it, what more do you want?