Onna hissatsu ken (1974)

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:

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

Company:

Toei Tokyo

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Hell Kittens (2009)

"It's like a private zoo. It amuses me. It's as much fun as a carload of gorillas."

"Sister Streetfighter" is but one of Sonny Chiba's "Streetfighter" series, this time with the impossibly cute and dimpled Sue Shihomi in the starring role.

OK, I will admit, this film is technically not that great. The acting is bad, the plot cheesy, and you can drive a truck through the holes in it.

So I will admit I have a sick addiction to these types of movies, because I loved "Sister Streetfighter".

What other movie gives you a cavalcade of freak-shows like a drugpin who collects "killers" at is secluded villa, a guy who exports his heroin disguised as human wigs, a henchman named Hammerhead with a gang who wears black cone-shaped wicker baskets for helmets, a group of girl Thai kick boxers in leopard-print named the "Amazons 7", a dart-blowing freak with a weird African shield and dime-store cape... a movie where you will see an assortment of weapons including staff, forks, tonfa, nunchuku, darts... need I go on?? "Sister Streetfighter" is that, and more.

Sue Shihomi starts off the movie doing a combination of the katas "kanku dai" and "heian yodan". There is not much biographical information on her on the web but I would guess she has some formal karate training because she is executes many of her kicks well, and in one scene she executes three really nice thrust kicks (kekomi) in a row. You don't often see good technique in martial arts films. As a result the fight scenes with Shihomi in it are very good, exciting and dynamic. She shows herself skilled also at using nanchaku and the sai (forks), one of which she plant in a poor fellow's head. And Sonny Chiba steals the few scenes he is in.

The cheesiness of this movie cannot be understated. In one scene Tina Long (Shihomi) finds her way onto the evil drugpin's property. She is discovered by the henchman "Hammerhead". Suddenly and inexplicably, they are transported high atop a sea-side cliff. Then, just as suddenly, they are fighting on a suspension bridge. I mean, this is classic stuff people! Also hilarious is the person introduced as "Eva Parrish - Karate Champion of Australia" is shown doing an absolutely horrible version of the kata "tekki shodan". Then the mysterious Ms. Parrish is never seen again in the film.

Recommended with two thumbs up for fans of the genre!