Onna hissatsu ken (1974)

User Rating:

6.1/10   

Director:

Kazuhiko Yamaguchi

Writers:

Masahiro Kakefuda (writer)
Norifumi Suzuki (writer)

Release Date:

February 1976 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Drama

Tagline:

Sonny Chiba's back ... and Sue Shiomi's got in!

Plot:

Lee Long is a martial-arts champion who the police use as an undercover agent to infiltrate a drug ring...

Plot Keywords:

Martial Arts | Drugs | Hong Kong | Fall Into Water | Grindhouse

Cast

Etsuko Shihomi	...	Li Koryu
Emi Hayakawa	...	Emi Hayakawa
Sanae Ôhori	...	Shinobu Kojo
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Bin Amatsu	...	Shigetomi Kakuzaki
Sonny Chiba	...	Seiichi Hibiki
Kôji Hio	...	Gomaru Akasawa
Masashi Ishibashi	...	Kazunao Inubashiri
Tatsuya Kameyama	...	Shimura
Ryoichi Koike	...	Tesshin Uesu
Hiroshi Kondô	...	Li Gyokudo
Hideo Kosuge	...	Tomoyuki Obayashi
Akira Kuji	...	Neret
Toshio Minami	...	Ma Ba-Yuan
Kengo Miyaji	...	Kizaki
Hiroshi Miyauchi	...	Li Mansei
Hisao Mizoguchi	...	Tettoso
Tatsuya Nanjo	...	Jiro
Kenji Ohba
Kazuyuki Saito	...	Sakura
Kazuji Sato	...	Go Naito
Seiya Satou	...	Murakami
Kôji Sawada	...	Nakajima
Teruo Shimizu	...	Hamano
Gôzô Sôma	...	Mao Yang-De
Nami Tachibana	...	Reiko
Tadashi Takatsuki	...	Yoshikawa
Toshiyuki Tsuchiyama	...	Kurokawa
Asao Uchida	...	Tetsudo Fujita
Xiu-Rong Xie	...	Fanshin
Shôhei Yamamoto	...	Ryozo Hayashi
Sakae Yamaura	...	Masaaki Sakurai

Also Known As:

Female Fighting Fist in Danger (video title (bootleg title))
Jo hissatsu ken
Nyô hissatsu ken
Sister Street Fighter (International: English title)
Woman Certain Kill Fist

Runtime:

86 min

Country:

Japan

Language:

English | Japanese

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Portugal:M/18 | UK:18 | USA:R | USA:X (original rating) (uncut version) | Canada:13+ (Quebec)

Company:

Toei Tokyo

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Planet X: (#2.2)" (2006)

Bad action, cheesy plot, but hot karate!

This isn't a Sonny Chiba film, although it has the same name as the series, and he does appear briefly in the film, it features the very capable Etsuko Shihomi, one of his students.

This is her first leading role and she would make many films before achieving award status, but she is still very watchable and entertaining in this non-stop karate exhibition.

Be it Asian beanpoles armed with Nunchukas or elderly men wielding metallic claws, our lovely heroine will crush anyone who tries to prevent her from rescuing her brother from the clutches of the vile villains that hold him.

You must really like karate to watch this film as that is all there is. Be warned that there is not a lot of gore, but there is one rape scene.